Tarpon guides on the island are feuding with a professional tarpon fishing tournament series, partly over use of controversial "jig" fishing. ... a Boca Grande entrepreneur.

Fishing has added a wrinkle to the tarpon-shark relationship in Boca Grande Pass: Sharks often kill hooked and just-released tarpon. "Fishing pressure on tarpon inside the pass has increased ...

BOCA GRANDE — Anglers fishing the opening day of the Professional Tarpon Tournament Series on Sunday will have the usual challenge of trying to keep their catches away from hammerhead and bull ...

On Gasparilla Island, where generations of guides have fished for tarpon, “jigger" is an insult. The jig-fishing PTTS is resented as a made-for-TV sport that draws unruly crowds to Boca Grande Pass.

Tarpon season is taking off at Boca Grande. Captains are reporting that tarpon up to 170 pounds have been biting good offshore about 4-5 miles. News Sports Entertainment Lifestyle Opinion ...

A popular world-class fishing destination is in peril. An aggressive red tide bloom has left thousands of dead, expensive fish rotting on the sand. This is known as the tarpon fishing capital of ...

Dave Markett, a long-time fishing guide who works Boca Grande Pass, called the acrimony that has destroyed lifelong friendships "a modern day tragedy." "There is no scientific evidence that this ...

This, perhaps, is the addiction anglers have with tarpon fishing in Boca Grande Pass. Besides the camaraderie, the pods of tarpon that suddenly roll their great silver backs through the water, the ...

GASPARILLA ISLAND — Boca Grande is known for its tarpon fishing, golf carts and fresh seafood plucked from the Gulf of Mexico. But for 100 years, the tiny fishing village has harbored a well-kept ...

Right now is the middle of Florida's storied spring tarpon season. Historically, "the season" is May and June. That window of choice fishing slides a bit annually according to weather conditions an… ...

Paul Kelly traveled from College Station, Texas, to fish for tarpon in Southwest Florida. He was fishing for tarpon off Boca Grande pass between Gasparilla Island and Cayo Costa when the 150-pound ...