Long before tourism defined Florida’s west coast, anglers were drawn to Boca Grande for one main reason: tarpon. That ...

A man got bitten by a shark in Boca Grande Pass on Wednesday. Paul Kelly traveled from College Station, Texas, to fish for tarpon in Southwest Florida. He was fishing for tarpon off Boca Grande pass ...

Boca Grande finally has a documentary about its world-class tarpon fishery. Rich History … Priceless Future — The Tarpon of Boca Grande Pass, will make its debut at the Mote Marine Laboratory's ...

A man was treated at the hospital for bite wounds after he was attacked by a shark while fishing. On Wednesday, Paul Kelly was fishing in Boca Grande Pass when he fell off the boat. That’s when he ...

Old Florida meets laid-back island living in elegant Boca Grande. While the state of Florida welcomes nearly 140 million visitors each year, only a small portion of them make their way to serene ...

Somewhere on a billionaire’s playground far away – the south end of Gasparilla Island, to be exact – history turned a page Tuesday with a symbolic heave of shovels flinging beach sand in the air. The ...

The worst part of a Texas man's trip to Florida wasn't when he got bit by a shark on a fishing trip. It's when he lost the tarpon he was trying to reel in. Speaking from the Lee Memorial Hospital on ...