Swimming Through Air
Fishing photographer Pat Ford has been chasing tarpon for more than 25 years
Fishing photographer Pat Ford has been chasing tarpon for more than 25 years
Spring is here, and tarpon are on the move — if only the wind would lie down a bit. Photographer and tarpon nut Pat Ford, who took these photos, is somewhere in the Keys right now, looking to reunite with one of his high-flying finned friends.
“They swim through the air, upside down and right side up,” says Ford, who got tarpon fever in 1990 while fishing with Capt. Bill Curtis. “If there’s a jump a fish can possibly make, a tarpon will make it. They’re just crazy and crazy-looking — prehistoric, like dinosaurs.”
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Click through the gallery below to see more of Pat Ford’s stunning photography
