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Tarpon Season: The Best Time To Fish

Tarpon season is a great time of year especially if you are a Florida tarpon fisherman. I wouldn't per se call it much of a season as it is just a wonderful time to fish. But since it is pretty much cyclical I guess you could call it a season. So, just when is this magical time of year? During the great annual tarpon migration of course.

Tarpon Season: The Three Magical Months 

Every year the annual tarpon migration culminates throughout the Florida coastal waters. Literally hundreds of thousands of tarpon congregate and spawn a multitude of fingerlings to keep their species alive and thriving. This tarpon migration occurs along the Florida coast during the months of March, April, May, June and July with the absolute hottest times being around the months of May, June and July.

Reason being that those three magical months are the absolute best time for Tarpon season is that they are returning from their mating rituals into the rich warm waters of the Florida coast absolutely famished and HUNGRY!

Tarpon Season: The Hot Zone

The Best Tarpon Fishing Book Ever! 

Shallow ocean, or "flats," fishing is one of the most popular coastal activities in Florida. No other place has such a large combination of different shallow water species. In Fishing Florida's Flats, world-champion angler Jan Maizler draws on the expertise of numerous "flatsmasters" who share their wisdom on how to land a trophy catch.

"This is one of the best books ever compiled and published about specific regionalized fishing techniques. It might just rival Vic Dunaway's classic, Baits, Rigs and Tackle. This book will pay for itself on your first outing on the water and you might want to check out the other books by Maizler. He's in a class by himself when bringing authoritative fishing basics to life for the reader. Number one on my list of presents to give people that fish -- novice or expert alike."

Other Great Books by Jan S. Maizler 

These are more great books by Jan S. Maizler. An accomplished fisherman and well respected writer, you can learn alot about all types of fishing in his wonderful musings, maybe even a thing or two about tarpon fishing

Fishing Florida's Coast

Fishing Florida's Coast represents the culmination of Mr. Maizler's goal of creating a "how-to¿ book that covers the majority of Florida's marine fish. Fishing Florida's Coast provides precise coverage on recommended tactics, tackle, and techniques. The chapters combine to create a textbook of lucid instruction and advice on how marine anglers can achieve and maintain success for the species that they seek.

Amazon Price: $15.95 (as of 07/11/2009) Buy Now

Fishing Tips, Tales, and Travels

In Fishing Tips, Tales, and Travels, veteran author, writer, angler and world traveler Jan Maizler has compiled his best works for effective fishing techniques in the world's most exotic destinations.

Mr. Maizler is a past IGFA world record holder for bonefish on two-pound test line and permit on four-pound test line. He has caught and released over two thousand bonefish in his angling career. Jan has been fishing in salt water since 1962.

In 1977, he published his first flats fishing book entitled Flats Fishing. Since then, he has written seven books and published hundreds of articles on angling in many leading websites and magazines, including "Florida Sport Fishing Magazine", "Florida Game and Fish", "Saltwater Sportsman", and "Florida Sportsman". Another of his current books in production is Fishing Florida's Flats to be published by University Press of Florida.

He has been a long-time angler and resource of Miami's Biscayne Bay, a fishery that offers some of the largest bonefish in the world. Jan has travelled the world over in his angling pursuits.

Amazon Price: $14.95 (as of 07/11/2009) Buy Now

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For you bookworms!

Ok, I admit it, I'm a bit of a bookworm myself. Some of these I have and some I haven't acquired yet but will be so it's kind of my library/wishlist all in one. These are the ones that I consider to be the best tarpon fishing books available on the shelves today.

Fishing Florida's Flats: A Guide to Bonefish, Tarpon, Permit, and Much More (Wild Florida) by JAN S. MAIZLER

Fishing Florida's Flats: A Guide to Bonefish, Tarpon, Permit, and Much More (Wild Florida) by JAN S. MAIZLER

Shallow ocean, or "flats," fishing is on more...0 points

Tarpon on Fly by Donald Larmouth, Rob Fordyce

Tarpon on Fly by Donald Larmouth, Rob Fordyce

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The Book of the Tarpon by A.W. Dimock, Tosh Brown

The Book of the Tarpon by A.W. Dimock, Tosh Brown

After an astonishing career on Wall Street, Anthon more...0 points

Tarpon Fishing in Mexico and Florida by Edward George Spencer-Churchill

Tarpon Fishing in Mexico and Florida by Edward George Spencer-Churchill

Introduction by Randy Wayne White with paitings by more...0 points

Megalops: An Angler's Affair with Tarpon by Tosh Brown

Megalops: An Angler's Affair with Tarpon by Tosh Brown

From Key West to Belize to Venezuela, Tosh Brown's more...0 points

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Friday, July 10, 2009
Florida Fishing Reports. ... Tarpon Update - YES they are biting, on flies, on plugs and probably on live bait except there don't seem to be many pogey minnows around right now. Could this be why they are going so well after the flies & the plugs? Inquiring minds want to know...and YES we do ... The owners of The Residences at High Cotton Marketplace in downtown Apalachicola have offered Robinson Brothers Fishing Clients a 10% discount if you stay with them for 2 nights. ...
Fly Fishing for Tarpon in Islamorada/Marathon Video - The Florida Keys
Fly Fishing for Tarpon in the Marathon/Islamorada Area of the Florida Keys. Hooked up a 80 - 90lb fish and she put up a great fight!
Maine Striper and Bluefin Tuna Charters, Saltwater Fishing Reports ...
The diversity of our saltwater flats fishing sets us apart from other destinations and the opportunity to catch bonefish, permit and tarpon on a given day makes Turneffe Flats one of the rare spots to pursue a "Flats Grand Slam," the .... We frequently encounter Stripers that are "Tailed Up"...yes Stripers do "tail", like an Abaco Bone or Redfish of Florida's famed Indian River Lagoon, Striped Bass often feed by grubbing around on the mud & eelgrass flats for crabs, ...
Fl Tarpon Fishing – 509th Edition
As always tarpon fishing is a subject I bring up. With the tarpon that where being caught in December and the amount of tarpon up the rivers now, the upcoming season I expect to be phenomenal. I have been booking steady and have more on ...