Tarpon Hot Spots in Florida are widely publicized—and have been for many decades. You can for certain tangle with the silver king at established fisheries in the Florida Keys, Miami, Boca Grande, Tampa Bay, Homosassa, and Northeast Florida beaches, but you might also find some great action in out-of-the-way places like Apalachicola, where bruiser tarpon inhabit certain passes in summer, and even cross light-colored flats.

Small fish provide exceptional sport in quiet, sheltered coves along the Indian River, throughout the Everglades, and in suburban canals all along Florida’s fast-developing west coast.

The hottest spot? That VW-sized boil where a 100-pound fish just engulfed a footlong mullet, or perhaps that flicker of silver where a rolling fish surfaced for a gulp of air. Migratory and mysterious; that’s Florida tarpon.