These fish are very popular with anglers for several reasons. One is their white flakey meat. Secondly they put up a great fight on light tackle, jumping out of the water numerous times before being subdued. They often run in schools especially when they are smaller sized, so often if you hook one, you will immediately hook another. Often with the smaller schooling fish anglers will keep one of the fish in the water , while other anglers pick off his buddies. The school will follow the one hooked and distressed fish, this enables the anglers to get multiple shots [...]

Key West tarpon fishing is primarily done in spring and early summer. Now there resident tarpon all around Key West all year but like I said the really good tarpon fishing is in spring. Although some of the tarpon fishing is done on the flats most of it is done in the harbor and channels that connect to the harbor. The water depth and lack of above water obstructions enable people with all size boats to fish comfortably. Many places further north in the keys people fish for tarpon around the bases of bridges and a smaller center console or [...]

One of the popular ways to fish in Key West and the Keys is sight fishing on the flats. Primary fish targeted fishing on the flats are permit, tarpon and bonefish. Other fish that also often targeted at barracuda , sharks, and jacks. The waters surrounding the keys in many places do not get deep for quite awhile, creating acres and acres of shallow saltwater flats. These flats can be hard bottom, mud or grass. Many of these flats around Key West have channels running through them for example Calda channel. Anglers can target fish by sight in these shallow [...]