Targeting specific snapper species?

So I fish out of Venice quite a bit and am starting to get a decent handle on bottom fishing, including a few of my own newly-discovered spots. I do fairly well with grouper and porgies and such, and catch a lot of lanes and vermillions as well. However, I almost never get any mangroves on my hard or live bottom spots. I'm sure they're there, but how can I target them specifically and get more of them?
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Mangroves usually are thicker with more relief. the artificial reefs are loaded with mangroves, you just have to know how to fish them. As many mentioned chum, light leaders. A jighead with a large shrimp or small pinfish is my go to.
Last time I was out on one of the M reefs we struggled to get mangroves because the yellowtails were so thick balled up behind the boat we couldn't get past them fishing weightless in the chum.
If you get the mangroves up behind the boat eating chum, they can be very tough to fool.
That dude has the Venice fishing locked up.
I will say in my area (Fort Myers), they will eat pins but seem to love whitebait. Cut it in half and dropper down.
We've tipped it with a bit of squid and had good results as well.
Oh. Don't forget.....chum,chum, and more chum