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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

But the 48-year-old guide knows that when it comes to tarpon fishing, especially in Boca Grande Pass, nothing is certain. "We had a 180-pounder on last weekend but lost it at the last minute," he ...

Boca Grande is known as “the tarpon fishing capital of the world.” Red tide bloomed on the southwest Florida coast during the peak of tarpon fishing season, pushing fish out and causing most ...

WHAT'S BITING: The seasonal tarpon bite has picked up in the Tampa Bay area. Good reports are coming in from all over the bay as well as Boca Grande.

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 ...

For Alabama anglers who have catching a tarpon on their bucket list, the place to go is Boca Grande, Florida, a near sure-thing for the silver kings from mid-May to mid-July.