![]() I have had many people hook tarpon on charters and 9 times out of 10 they do not give the fish slack and it throws the hook right away. This is because you are trained to never give a fish slack. The better fisherman you are the more difficult it is to remember to give the fish slack. If you do not the tarpon typically throws the hook on the first jump. This is the only fish in the world that you are supposed to give slack to when it jumps. The trick to landing a tarpon is to use the right hooks and to give the tarpon slack when it jumps. I hooked about 20 tarpon before I landed a fish. I have fished for tarpon at Boca Grande Pass and in the Florida Keys which are both world-class tarpon fishing locations. When fishing for tarpon it is also common to hook sharks and barracuda. Late summer tarpon regularly feed on crabs and that becomes a great bait to use. This makes fresh mullet the best bait in the springtime. The springtime is pre-spawn for tarpon and these fish follow the mullet to feed on them. If mullet start filling up the flats, that is also a sign that it is tarpon season. In the Florida Keys, I typically go to the Seven Mile Bridge or the Bahia Honda Bridge and look to see if tarpon have started stacking up at the bridge pilings early in the season. Tarpon season starts in early April and goes through the summer into late September. This means that just because you see tarpon in Florida does not mean that it is tarpon season. ![]() Tarpon also remain in some Florida marinas year-round because the fish are well fed by people at bait cleaning stations. The tarpon that stay typically live in the Gulf of Mexico and are juvenile tarpon under 40 inches long. Most tarpon travel south of the United States during the winter months. Tarpon are found in both the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. People do this because fishing for tarpon is both challenging and exciting. Some charter captains spend their whole career only fishing for tarpon. ![]()
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