Quotes About Tarpon

I'm a passionate, hardcore fisherman. Biggest fish I caught? A 200-pound tarpon.

In this book, Doc Ford references "snag fishing" for tarpon in Boca Grande Pass on Florida's Gulf Coast. Thanks to Kenneth W. Wright—Florida Environmentalist of the Decade, in the minds of many anglers—this "jigging" technique has finally been exposed as a fraud. Mr. Wright, and a group of knowledgeable

I'm a Hemingway fan, so in a manner of speaking, I've been fishing with him already. But man, would I love to board Pilar in Key West and head south until we have a day-long battle with a tarpon, haul that bad boy up, then celebrate by telling lies over rum on a Cuban terrace.

It is a fact that scientists have deposited dye in certain lakes around Orlando and tracked the effluent to Florida Bay. There is a lake near Everglades City, Deep Lake, and large tarpon show up in that lake, 30 miles from the sea.