In Florida, you can’t kill a tarpon — a silver-plated game fish prized by catch-and-release anglers — without a special permit. You also can’t spearfish in almost half of the Florida Keys. Monroe ...

They appear each summer as if by spontaneous generation, announcing themselves with silvery flashes glittering off chrome scales when they roll on the surface in the green water surging around the ...

ISLAMORADA — The highlight of our three-day fly-fishing trip to the Florida Keys in mid-June, during the famous spring tarpon run when flyrod records routinely fall, came when a 30-pound barracuda ...

MARATHON, Fla. - The second of a pair of Florida men accused of going fishing after breaking into an aquarium in the Keys and killing a tarpon has been arrested. According to the Monroe County Sheriff ...

Although the chance to catch a tarpon on fly attracts anglers from all over the world to the shallow flats of the Keys, plenty of anglers are happy to hook a tarpon on live bait. This time of year, ...

ISLAMORADA -- It's always feeding time at Robbie's of Islamorada, where the 100 or so tarpon lined up like miniature submarines below a bayside pier don't have to worry about getting a hook in the ...

Tarpon can only be harvested by anglers who buy a special tag in pursuit of a state record, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. A tarpon leaps from the water off the ...