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Angler on a small skiff fighting a leaping silver tarpon at sunset with rod bent double and water spray frozen mid-air
Outdoor Sports

Boca Grande Pass — Tarpon Fishing Capital of the World, May Through July

Every spring, hundreds of 100 to 200-pound tarpon stack into a single 40-foot-deep inlet between two barrier islands on Florida's Gulf coast to spawn. May through July, the pass turns into the densest tarpon fishery on the planet. Charter boats line up nose-to-stern. Every hookup is catch-and-release.
Flats fishing skiff with guide standing on poling platform and angler at bow casting toward a shallow turtle-grass flat in clear water
Outdoor Sports

Islamorada Flats — Sight-Fishing the Grand Slam, the Hardest Trophy in Saltwater

Bonefish in two feet of water. Permit at the edge of a turtle-grass flat. Tarpon rolling the channel at slack tide. Catch all three in the same day and you've completed the Grand Slam — the rarest cumulative trophy in saltwater fishing. The Florida Keys flats off Islamorada are where it's done.
Aerial view of the long, low concrete fishing pier of Skyway Fishing Pier State Park stretching across Tampa Bay with cars parked along the rail and the cable-stayed Sunshine Skyway Bridge in the background
Outdoor Sports

Skyway Fishing Pier — The World's Longest Fishing Pier, $4 to Park All Night, and Tarpon From a Walkway

The old Sunshine Skyway Bridge fell into Tampa Bay in 1980. The approach spans never came down — they became the world's longest fishing pier. Drive your car onto the rail, pay $4, and fish 24 hours for tarpon, mackerel, sheepshead, and grouper without a license, without a boat, without leaving your trunk.