The Snapper off the Texas coast are plentiful, though that one is a Hawg. I love to eat them, but don't care to fish for them unless we are using electric reels. Too much work for me. And they are not bottom feeders, they are reef fish(of course any structure is a "reef").
Take some old refrigirators, washingmachines, cars, etc, and drop them offshore and mark your GPS. It is like farming them, and most of the party boat operators around here have several farms.