INTRODUCING THE "SILVER KING"
 

TARPON, the SILVER KING, inhabits shallow water from southern Florida to Central America.  This scaly, prehistoric, acrobatic giant can tolerate water that is fresh, brackish, saline, extremely murky and a wide range of temperatures.  TARPON have power, leaping ability up to 10 feet and are plentiful. They vary from 2 to 175 pounds of 6 feet of scale-encased muscle and nothing can offer more fishing excitement.

 
ANNUAL MIGRATION

TARPON can be found year around in the Keys and the back country of The Florida Bay and the everglades with resident populations of large adults to smaller juveniles.  

By late February or early March they start their annual migration when thousands arrive for their "spring run" by moving up on the flats of the Florida Keys on the Florida Bay side for about 3 months.  At this time the Keys provide them a place to feed, spawn and choose to stay on an Atlantic Ocean or the Gulf of Mexico run.  No place on earth can such a large fish be so easily fished as the Florida Keys at this time,

ANNUAL MIGRATION
 

WITH ITS BUCKET SIZE MOUTH
THE TARPON INHALES BAITFISH
 

By late April the Florida side of the Keys teem with giant TARPON. By June many of the fish move to the Atlantic side of the keys and remain into July and disappear. 

 During the run TARPON tend to aggregate in pods of 6 to 12 fish.  Anglers will spot them in  "skinny" (shallow) water of 4 to 10 feet affording good sight fishing.  Some  TARPON will remain in the Keys and begin to make their way into the back country.  

In late May, a migration of large TARPON appear off the south-west coast of Florida and then move up the coast in June to Punta Gorda to Louisiana, Arkansas and along the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula in the fall and by winter Belize, Panama and Colombia.  It is suspected they return by cutting across the Gulf of Mexico to start the cycle over again in the lower Keys.  

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