“Bow to the king,” advises fishing guide Rick Stancyk. His advice is a simple reminder that when tarpon jump, you should drop your rod tip and give slack so the hook doesn’t pull out, in effect bowing ...

Nick spots what he thinks are dolphin, but they quickly realize it is a wall of tarpon too thick to count, all within casting distance of the sand. Live bait and big swimbaits both get crushed, with ...

Jack Brady was easing his 21-foot, open cockpit boat out of the village of Oyster a few days after Tropical Storm Ernesto had roared through the Eastern Shore. Storm gusts had hit 80 mph at the nearby ...

The report this week that a St. Augustine angler has "jumped" - or hooked - 160 tarpon already this summer is a stunning revelation about how good area fishing can be for arguably the greatest ...