Celebrate Outdoors: Panhandle Tarpon Time
Posted on July 6, 2017 - By Frank Sargeant Special to The News HeraldFor most of us, the opportunity to hook a fish that’s literally bigger than we are is remote — it costs a whole lot of money and usually takes a whole lot of trips way offshore to connect with a bluefin tuna, a blue or black marlin or a giant swordfish.But that’s not the case with the “silver king,” sort of everyman’s big game fish. Tarpon regularly exceed 100 pounds and five-feet long, with fish approaching 200 pounds and more than 6-feet long always a possibility.Even […]