Anglers, get your hooks and bait ready! Tarpon season for the Gulf of Mexico is here, with many dedicated fisherman across the nation heading to Florida to see if they can catch the world’s most ...

Long before tourism defined Florida’s west coast, anglers were drawn to Boca Grande for one main reason: tarpon. That ...

Major Thornton, a social media creator with thousands of followers on Instagram and TikTok, poses with the tarpon he recently caught fishing in a Florida spillway. Courtesy of Major Thornton The ...

One of the world’s oldest and most sought-after species of fish made their presence felt across Tampa Bay and Gulf beaches this past week. Since prehistoric times, the silver king has roamed Earth’s ...

Thousands of anglers visit the Florida Keys each year hoping to catch tarpon, a mammoth species of silver-and-green fish that often grows larger than 150 pounds. Tourists also can feed them fish by ...

Since the 1995 net bans, anglers have enjoyed bigger pompano and Spanish mackerel from Stuart and Miami to Homosassa, with abundant recreational catches.