The great mouth: tarpon are the epitome of sporting fish, and for the best action, there's only one place to go.(Florida)(includes related travel information and equipment information)

Field & Stream (West ed.) | April 1, 1996| | Copyright

FIGURING OUT WHY THE WORLD'S BEST TARPON fishing exists on Florida's southwest coast in the area around Boca Grande Pass is a matter of mathematics. Tarpon spawn on the edge of the continental shelf in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, swimming in a doughnut of as many as 1,000 to 1,500 fish packed as tight as canned sardines, 600 feet above the sea floor and 100 miles from the coast. Males typically twenty-one years old and 5 feet in length, and females averaging 8 inches longer and five years older, engage in sex of the wildest kind. Each female in the school spews 1.5 million eggs ...

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