Are you sure you want to catch a tarpon? Lots of people think they want to catch a tarpon, till the have to fight and land a respectable tarpon. I grew up in SW Florida, and we learned to hate tarpon. Boca Grande, Pine Island Sound, Charlotte Harbor. Naples to Tampa Bay is where the action was in the old days with Boca Grande being ground zero. You might get a better bang for your buck as well. I long for the Boca Grande of my youth, when there were still wide open spaces and you could talk to the old timers of giant Jewfish around the phosphate docks. It wasn't a bad childhood. Lots of quail, burrowing owls, kestrels, and those fork tail kites.
