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Featured Charters
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Boca Grande Tarpon Fishing For Charlotte Harbor and Tampa Bay
Without a doubt the tarpon is king of the inshore world. They are true giants with weights approaching 200 pounds common. There are two ways of fishing for these giants:
Again, you are sitting 20 yards away from the most beautiful beaches in the world and the sun has not even broken the horizon. The captain tells you to get ready. You can see them rolling on the surface 100 yards away and closing. As their chrome sides, glistening from what little light there is turn over, you think to yourself " make a good cast". The crab flies perfectly through the air and lands right in the path of the oncoming Tarpon. There must be 30 or 40 of them. Then you see a flash, at the same time you feel it. The captain yells "set on him!"
Before you even have a chance to think, the fish is air born. You make it through the first jump. "Bow!" yells the captain as to your utter amazement the fish is in the air again. Twice more he explodes through the surface of the water, twisting and writhing before you can get your emotions in check. You can feel the enormous power of the Tarpon pulling the boat were he wants to go. You are in confident and in complete control when he is ready to fly once again. You see the line rising just as he breaks the surface. You bow and... he is gone. This is tarpon fishing in Boca Grande!
Hill Tide
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Picture yourself drifting through
Boca Grande pass watching hundreds of
Tarpon rolling on the surface. The captain tells you they are
crowded beneath you. He says "drop them". You lower your bait
to the bottom and feel a "thump". Just as you start to crank
you observe your line disappearing off the reel at a rapid
pace. You move quickly to the front of the boat and the captain
announces "he’s coming up!" There he is, 150 pounds of fish,
six feet long, ten feet in the air, and only ten yards from the
boat. For the next 30 minutes you do battle with this leviathan
and when you finally have him at boat side for your photo, you
realize you have five more hours to left to fish. 
During
these very special days the Tarpon are getting ready to make the
long journey offshore to spawn, and make sure we have Tarpon to
catch in the future. These "Hill Tides" are very predictable as they
occur every year around the New and full moon in May and June.
There will be about 4 to 6 days that the afternoon outgoing tide
will flush out of Charlotte Harbor and bring with it millions of
small crabs and bait fish. This is the worlds biggest
buffet line and the Tarpon treat it as one. We start in the
early afternoon dipping crabs off the surface of the water, we
then sit and wait for the Tarpon to start the migration
offshore. When this happens the Tarpon begin to feed on anything
they can, creating a perfect opportunity to have several hook
ups in a very short time. Triple and double hookups are not
uncommon during this type of fishing. It can be fast paced and
very exciting as you will be only a few yards from schools of
Tarpon that can number as high as 500. As you can tell these are
days that always book up first so don't delay if this sounds
like something you would like to try, contact us and set up you
Boca Grande Tarpon Charter today. 
