Stalking the Silver Kings: Hungry Tarpon Deliver Epic Fly Fishing Action in the Everglades

This week’s fishing report is brought to you by the laid up hungry Tarpon! When chasing Tarpon headed out of Flamingo, Everglades National Park, there are few places where we can find these fish and they act completely different at every different spot.


You can find these Everglades Tarpon rolling around, belly crawling in the mud with their tails out of the water and some just laid up waiting to pounce on that fly! This week, on a day where the wind finally settled down, we were able to sight fish 50lb-100lb fish sitting still in the current waiting for that perfect opportunity. We had 4 eats on fly and were able to wrangle in a nice 50-60lb fish. Needless to say the Utah clients were extremely happy, especially for never even seeing a Tarpon before.

As the wind picks up later this week we will have to try some different tactics in locating these fish but I’m not worried at all. If we’re going it’s because they are there! I’ll keep y’all updated next week to let you know how we did chasing the Silver King in 20knot winds.


Capt. Austin Abercrombie