Gin-clear flats, white sugar sand beaches and swift flowing passes are traditional settings for those who stalk the spectacular tarpon along Florida 's Gulf coast. From April until about the full moon in July, rare is the dawn that doesn't find a bleary-eyed and demented angler lurking along the well-known travel and fishing paths of the world's greatest gamefish. The tarpon.Shortly after that full moon in July, the tarpon anglers disappear faster than toilet paper during a blue-light special. Tarpon can be found roaming the saltwater flats, beaches and passes - but the tarpon fishing in those areas becomes very inconsistent the rest of the summer. As I've discussed in previous installments of this series, what brings the tarpon to these whereabouts of Florida is part of their pre-spawn ritual. The spring migration southward of pre-spawn tarpon slowly, but surely, becomes a summer northward migration of post-spawn tarpon. Until finally, they all but disappear.