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The Atlantic Tarpon inhabits coastal waters, estuaries, lagoons, and rivers. The tarpon feeds almost exclusively on schooling fish and occasionally crabs. The Atlantic tarpon is also known as the silver king.   In appearance, a tarpon

The great hammerhead is the largest species of hammerhead shark, belonging to the family Sphyrnidae, attaining a maximum length of 6.1 m (20 ft). It is found in tropical and warm temperate waters worldwide, inhabiting coastal areas and the continen

  If you are like me and you’re bummed out about all that is going on, it’s time to go fishing.  Fortunately, for those of us that fish off Miami, the Atlantic Ocean is still open for fishing.  Earli

The scales are still open as this is being written but there's already been lots of excitment at the Mid-Atlantic $500 000 Tournament. The Amarulla Sun from Tarpon Springs Florida got things started at Ocean City Maryland as the scales opened a

                       ( Christine from N.J. with a massive summer steelhead on the St Joe River- hammered a striped black/purple haze leech) The days are getting longer

September is almost over and we are starting to get into 'Fall' mode in the backcountry. The last couple weeks we have started to see the early signs of the 'fall bait run.' The first hint of cool and more northerly winds starts brin

August florida keys backcountry fishing has still been fairly good even though we are getting into the dregs of summer. The weather is definitely hot but most days we've had a bit of a breeze so it makes it much more bearable. Rain has been arou

There’s a lot of anglers that use self-propelled watercraft in my region and just a wide-open option of places to launch and fish. The Mosquito Lagoon is so shallow and has some many ponds canals and little backwater areas that you could fish

Thursday 4/23/15 Captiva fishing catch of the day! Atlantic Sharpnose Shark. Captiva fishing Tuesday 4/23/15 looking to bring a tarpon to the boat but catching and releasing sharks small sharks big sharks pretty much any kind of shark.  For mor

June brought us the first named storm of 2013 and with it a good shot of rain as well. Nevertheless the warming waters brought redfish trout flounder tripletails jacks ladyfish bluefish sheepshead black drum  King Mackerel black sea bass cobia

October is here and so far the fall fishing is still very good overall. Hurricane Matthew is currently looming out in the Atlantic affecting the islands but we appear to be out of the 'cone' and may experience some stronger than normal wind

The plan was that there was no plan and that was a comfortable place to be since we were fishing with Capt. Chris Kimrey of Mount Maker Charters out of Atlantic Beach/Morehead City. From king mackerel tournament fishing to winter bluefinning to chasi

The ladyfish or tenpounder (Elops saurus) is a species of fish in the genus Elops, the only genus in the monotypic family Elopidae. Like other species in its genus, the ladyfish has a long, slender, rounded body covered with silvery scales. Its mou

I had another flood tide fishing trip set up for this morning this time with Dale Bullard who has fished with me a few times in the past.  We met at the Atlantic Seafood dock at sunrise and with a bright full moon overhead   headed up to f

April 6th 2018 – Its game time. We have waited all this time with spurts of tarpon here and there to finally get to our 2018 tarpon season. This week the fish have filled in quite nicely and they are chewing off the rails of our boats. Using li

As the time draws near for epic summer battles with The Silver King here in Georgetown we find ourselves at the ready for one of our favorite times of the year. Atlantic tarpon migrate through the area every year starting in June peaking in August an

Springtime Sailfishing is a lot different than winter where we do a lot of trolling ballyhoo kite fishing or slow trolling live baits to cover water and hopefully find fish. In the spring the fish are on the color edges and more often than not up an

I fished with the Kenner family today Kari and Shannon and their two young sons Mclain and Hudson meeting them this morning down at the Atlantic Seafood dock with plans to fish the last of an incoming tide. Kari and Shannon are owners of the lo

Fishing in the waters of the Port Royal Sound system is truly great – we have healthy stocks of redfish cobia tarpon sharks and other fun-to-catch game species. But why is that the case? This blog is a guest post by my wife Kristen an environm

South Carolina Tarpon Fishing  South Carolina Tarpon Fishing? When people think of fishing for Tarpon most think of the Florida Keys Everglades or other destinations. Atlantic Tarpon have broad range. Often migrating north to Virginia