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Tarpon Week

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The Silver King
Tarpon Week · 2026

It's Poon Szn

Tips, Gear, and Legendary stories - everything you need to know in your pursuit of the silver king.

Tips & Strategies

Gear

Interviews & Stories

Conservation

Gear Guide
In Partnership With
Tarpon Week · 2026

The Tarpon Fishing Gear Guide

Everything worth packing for tarpon season — ranked, tested, and broken down piece by piece.

In Partnership With

Nom Ren Series Fly Rod

Built for technical saltwater shots, windy conditions, and the kind of controlled power tarpon demand.

Costa Blackfin Pro

Polarized clarity, full-coverage frames, and all-day comfort for long hours scanning moving water.

Sitka Rover Gore Tex

Waterproof, boat-ready boots made for wet decks, rough shorelines, and long days in the salt.

Yeti Mini Go Box

A compact, bombproof gear case for keeping leaders, tools, flies, and small essentials protected.

Featured Tarpon Week Articles

The Mystery of the Sistine Chapel Tarpon

How a tarpon made it on the most famous mural in the world.

Why Do Tarpon Roll?

"Right HERE, 11 o'clock, Rollers!" is hissed by a guide on the poling platform of his skiff. An...
The Migration
Tarpon Week · 2026

The Tarpon Migration

A 4-part guide to one of the most iconic migrations in the saltwater world.

I. The Annual Arrival

For a few electric weeks, the ocean-side flats fill with tarpon — then, almost as quickly, they disappear.

II. Where They Come From

From creeks, rivers, channels, and coastlines, tarpon begin moving south as water temperatures climb.

III. The Offshore Run

When conditions line up, tarpon push far offshore in one of the most mysterious chapters of their migration.

IV. The Long Return

Once the migration peaks, fish scatter back across the coastlines they came from — some traveling hundreds of miles.

Earn the Eat

Tarpon Week · 2026

Tarpon Tips & Strategies

Precision, Presentation, Patience — Tarpon Tactics That Work

Presented by Costa
Built for the Bow
Tarpon Week · 2026

Tarpon Gear

Because when a tarpon eats, your setup better be ready for what comes next.

Ultimate Tarpon Gear Guide

Fly fishing for tarpon means battling the sun, the wind, and the fish. Combine all three, and you've got a pursuit that can test...
Legends of the sport
Tarpon Week · 2026

Interviews & Stories

The people, places, and stories shaping tarpon fishing.

Straight From the Source

Tarpon Week · 2026

Tarpon Week Exclusive Interviews

Four conversations with the guides, builders, and artists shaping tarpon culture this season — in their own words.

Capt. Dustin Huff

Guide Spotlight

“You’re constantly experimenting with new flies, hooks, and leader configurations, trying to find the next breakthrough.”

Coming Soon

Dylan Schmitz

Photographer Spotlight

“Seeing the whole technical aspect of tarpon fishing and how they approached it really opened up a new world and obsession for me.”

Coming Soon

Paul Puckett

Artist Spotlight

“I hooked and landed the first tarpon I ever cast to, and I’ve been chasing that ever since.”

Coming Soon

Brett Martina

Guide Spotlight

“A week later, I caught my first tarpon on a fly rod, which funny enough was actually the first fish I’d ever caught on a fly rod.”

Read the Interview →
Protecting The Species
Tarpon Week · 2026

tarpon conservation

Why Do Tarpon Roll?

"Right HERE, 11 o'clock, Rollers!" is hissed by a guide on the poling platform of his skiff. An eager angler perches on the bow,...
Podcast
Tarpon Week · 2026

Tarpon Week Podcast

with Andy & Nicky Mill, of the Mill House Podcast

“Great guides can find the fish that don’t want to be found, and great anglers can catch the fish that don’t want to be caught.”

Andy and Nicky Mill join the Flylords Podcast to talk fish houses, the early days of tarpon guiding in the Keys, and what's changed — and hasn't — about chasing silver kings on fly.

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