Captain Griffin Deans is always one to leave a big bait soaking because he knows that is often what it takes to catch big fish. “Even if we’re just trout fishing, I’ll throw something big out trying ...

The tarpon season along the upper coast has gotten off to its best start since 1997. That's the consensus of several veteran guides who specialize in catching the big fish in the open Gulf several ...

Most anglers associate tarpon fishing on Florida’s west coast as something done in May and June. But Nick Winger loves fishing for tarpon in September. He knows that the fish need to eat heavily ...

Matt Bauer poses with a tarpon he caught while fishing for trout with captain Griffin Deans in Tampa Bay. Courtesy of Griffin Deans Captain Griffin Deans is always one to leave a big bait soaking ...

OK, I was pre-warned. Tarpon fishing, they told me, is a sport that fits the description "long periods of boredom interrupted by brief moments of sheer chaos." But, hey, I didn't expect my sentence in ...

Photos and video of a massive tarpon estimated to weigh more than 300 pounds are going viral on social media. The giant fish was caught May 8, off Bahia Solano, Colombia, in South America. The angler ...

As far as inshore fish go, a mangrove snapper is one of the tastiest. And right now the river is chock full of them. Mangrove snapper spend their vulnerable younger years inshore before moving into ...

Legendary Louisiana tarpon guide Lance Schouset recently got a call from his long-time friend Mike Strohmeyer. Strohmeyer asked Schouset, who’s based in Houma, to take his grandson Cruz tarpon fishing ...

Mother Nature has a little bit of termite in her. You can fend her off over here, but she’ll sometimes relocate over there, and once you adjust your defenses, she comes back over here. You can’t help ...

Joshua Jorgensen, host of the popular online fishing show BlacktipH Fishing, went to Colombia to fish the legendary sardine migration but wound up catching a tarpon of legendary proportions. Jorgensen ...

This week is all about the big one! From offshore Volusia County to just outside the Matanzas Inlet, local anglers have reeled in some mammoth catches lately. The big catch of the week was a massive ...

When I think of the different kinds of inshore fishing I do, the one that’s the hardest on a reel’s gear train is blackfish (Tautog) jigging. It requires hard hooksets that transition quickly to ...