It seems those veteran Boca Grande tarpon guides, who use stout tackle and live bait to haul the fish to the boat in a hurry, might be wrong. They have been charging that clients who use jigs as ...

ENGLEWOOD -- A study of tarpon mortality in Boca Grande Pass indicates that the popular game fish are generally surviving being hooked and released. Just two of the 14 tarpon that state researchers ...

DUCK KEY -- Three new rules proposed Thursday at a Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission meeting could change the way people fish for tarpon in Boca Grande Pass. The proposed rules affect ...

Tarpon and bonefish rules are likely going to change statewide, and that might include the way breakaway jigs can be used at Boca Grande Pass starting next spring. Jigging has long been controversial ...

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Almost every tarpon released in a 10-week study at Boca Grande Pass this spring headed straight offshore after being turned loose by anglers. Fourteen tarpon were tagged in the study, which was done ...

Common for the month of April, several shallow water bites have begun to ramp up in intensity. Locally referred to as the Big Three, snook, redfish and tarpon are bending the rods and providing ...

To hear author, restaurateur and angling activist Randy Wayne White tell it, as he recently did at his Doc Ford's Rum Bar & Grille on Sanibel Island, all of us Southwest Floridians are here because of ...