While many local and visiting anglers are putting in time hunting our spring tarpon swimming in the passes and along the beaches, others are taking advantage of the calm weather to venture offshore to public reefs and much further out secret GPS locations in the Gulf in pursuit of a great ...
If you asked 10 tarpon anglers what’s the best size and type of hook to use to tame the silver king, you’re sure to get lots of different advice. For hooks, the FWC recommends non-offset circle hooks although many still swear by and use J-hooks. Treble hooks are simply too dangerous for ...
With tarpon the talk of the town, the only question is where will you look for yours? Obviously Boca Grande Pass comes to mind first, where fish and fishermen are stacked up. Other fish have taken to daily coastal excursions sometimes miles off shore, other times a stone’s throw from the ...
Being an opportunity feeder or scavenger, tarpon can be taken on a large variety of dead and live baits. For Keys anglers, mullet seems to be the live fish bait of choice but here locally, ladyfish get more hook time. Hand-sized threadfins and pinfish free lined or under floats are always a ...
For years I dreamed about tarpon, had read every outdoor book about tarpon, every magazine article and watched every video that I could get my hands on and at this point was more than ready to do battle. I was consumed by it, simply dying to catch one. I saved my money and the next year my ...
For the last decade, no matter my day's schedule or appointments, you’ll find me starting the day outside very early making a dozen or more casts in the predawn twilight, sometimes in bathrobe and Clogs, from the seawall. Over the many years this early ritual has resulted in some serious ...
