Things change with time and tide. The "silvery giants" seldom are stacked off the Port Aransas jetties, and Texas no longer is regarded as the top tarpon destination. Florida might state its case.

Cliff Strain, the Port Aransas Museum Executive Director says due to over fishing and the fact that tarpon only stay a mile from the jetties, the tarpon population started to decline over 50 years ...

Pilot Don Farley brought the boat near the south jetty so local photographer ... viewed on YouTube. The tarpon was taken to taxidermists Roberts and Brundrett in Port Aransas for mounting, and ...

Cliff Strain, the Port Aransas Museum’s executive director ... choice habitat – they stay a mile from the jetties – have caused the local tarpon population to decline over the last 50 ...

He accepted his son Elliott’s offer to take him fishing for tarpon. Elliott, who lived in Fort Worth, visited Port Aransas the year ... and went fishing off the jetties. He caught a king mackerel.

Catching a tarpon, or at least hooking one ... fishermen who came to the Texas Gulf to try his luck off the Port Aransas jetties. He arrived on the presidential yacht, the Potomac, in the spring ...

Two days later, back at Port Aransas, the President advanced ... shouted that he had hooked a tarpon out beyond the jetties and was playing it inshore. As his 40-ft. fishing launch drew closer ...

Check in at the Tarpon Inn (thetarponinn.com), which ... early and start the day with a walk along the beach to Port Aransas' South Jetty, where you can watch dedicated fishermen and women pulling ...

Cooper Davis enjoys diving along the jetty in Port Aransas. We found him and his brother there on Wednesday. They heard about the snake sighting, but were still walking over the rocks with ease.

KSAT Connect viewers captured stunning images of rainbows, quick downpours and more after Sunday afternoon’s storms. PORT ARANSAS, Texas – The Tarpon Inn is one of the oldest buildings still ...