Ladies wrap up tarpon season
SUN PHOTO BY JOSH OLIVE
Team Sea Hunt/Odyssey is all smiles while posing with their first-place trophy.
SUN PHOTO BY JOSH OLIVE
Team Yamaha's fish takes to the air in front of a cameraman filming the event, which is slated to be televised later this year.
SUN PHOTO BY "GATOR" DAVE HARPER
This tarpon hooked by Team ATM Girls was attacked by a shark just a few feet off the beach.
SUN PHOTO BY "GATOR" DAVE HARPER
Team Power Pole works to control a tarpon at boatside.
BOCA GRANDE PASS — Saturday was a tough day of fishing for the anglers of the Women’s Professional Tarpon Tournament Series as they fished their fifth and final event of the year, the Silver King Classic.
With tarpon apparently having begun their annual dispersal from Boca Grande Pass already, the bite was slower than at tournaments a few weekends ago. Tarpon utilize the pass as a staging location for offshore spawning, and once the spawn is over, the fish spread out along the beaches and into Charlotte Harbor.
