Entries in tarpon (69)
Best-Selling Author Randy Wayne White Crusades to Protect Tarpon
Sunday, April 6, 2014 at 12:00AM 
To hear author, restaurateur and angling activist Randy Wayne White tell it, as he recently did at his Doc Ford’s Rum Bar & Grille on Sanibel Island, all of us Southwest Floridians are here because of a fish.
Because of its fight, the lightning-quick way it rolls and leaps when it strikes, and because of its strength and beauty. That fish is Megalops atlanticus, an archaic, cow-eyed, thick-jawed feeding machine that can reach eight feet in length and weigh 250 pounds. Tourists call it “tar-pon.” The rest of us say “tarp-in.” No matter how you pronounce the name, the tarpon with its silver-dollar scales has always meant money, and that’s at the heart of a recent controversy that embroiled White and the organizers of a high-stakes fishing tournament down in Boca Grande.
LINK (via: Sarasota Magazine)
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Monday, September 23, 2013 at 12:01AM 
Chummist B Katz had some luck in the Glades earlier in the month.
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