If you want to stop conversation at The Temptation Restaurant on Gasparilla Island, try four letters. "PTTS," as in the Professional Tarpon Tournament Series. Heads turn. Voices drop. People stare. It ...

BOCA GRANDE — Anglers fishing the opening day of the Professional Tarpon Tournament Series on Sunday will have the usual challenge of trying to keep their catches away from hammerhead and bull sharks.

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Editor's note: ESPNOutdoors.com will focus on tarpon, providing a series of articles and features detailing the annual run of the silver kings in our Tarpon Trek. Anglers worldwide know Boca Grande ...

In a not very high-definition video, shot this week with an underwater camera attached to a 6-foot-long PVC pipe, more than 100 tarpon swirl silently through the green water, 12 feet beneath the ...

Boca Grande is known as “the tarpon fishing capital of the world.” Red tide bloomed on the southwest Florida coast during the peak of tarpon fishing season, pushing fish out and causing most captains ...

Dwayne French of Reel Action Charters doesn't get too excited when it comes to tarpon. His clients have caught many over the years on jigs in Boca Grande Pass and on live baits in the inshore Gulf of ...

Best-selling novelist Tom McGuane has purchased a home on Boca Grande for $1.7 million. McGuane, 75, has been coming to Boca Grande since childhood – often to take advantage of the island's ...

At Big Pier 60 in Clearwater, water under pier still chalky after weekend cool front brought west winds 45-50-knots Saturday evening. Catfish and sharks best anglers could do on Wednesday. Water ...