Florida’s Everglades are a vast and untamed natural place. Alligators patrol the water. Flamingos soar across the sky. Snakes hang like vines from mangrove branches. And occasionally, a fan boat full ...

Jupiter's Dave Preston can celebrate Independence Day by telling a fish story that is true.Preston and his guide, Capt. Luis Cortes, caught the largest tarpon in Gold Cup history with a fish weighing ...

Forty-odd years ago, a former college lineman's upset stomach and a running-back-sized tarpon spurred the fly-fishing world to descend upon an obscure little corner of Florida. This is the story ...

Why tarpon challenge: Tarpon are powerful, acrobatic fish with hard mouths, making hook sets tricky and fights intense. Gear that works: Use 8–12 weight rods, strong reels with sealed drags, and ...

For anglers who have never been saltwater fly fishing for tarpon, I can describe it in one phrase: “A very humbling experience.” Last month I fulfilled a dream of making the leap from Inland Northwest ...

Baker Bishop, a businessman from Sullivan's Island, finished third in the 47th annual Don Hawley Invitational Fly Fishing Tarpon Tournament held in the Florida Keys. Weather was a challenge for this ...

When the talk centers on fly fishing for shallow-water tarpon, most anglers conjure up those picturesque images of skiffs being poled across the flats in the Florida Keys. The truth is that same scene ...

There are feats in fishing that few anglers ever accomplish. In Virginia, catching a tarpon on fly rod is arguably the toughest. “And I don’t know that you’d get much of an argument,” said Kendall ...

Ken Baldwin is a Writer/Editor for Fishing On SI, where he writes stories about fly fishing and the lifestyle that surrounds it. His writing and photography have appeared in Men's Journal, Catch ...

I had just returned from Homosassa, Florida. I had driven 10 hours each way to fly fish for tarpon. I had recently broken three ribs in what remains disputed as either a biking accident or a drinking ...

With the freestone rivers running brown, many anglers start thinking blue. For some, casting a fly into the salty unknown is as good as it gets — whether that be walking flats in search of bonefish, ...