Tag: Tarpon Toad

Tying the Tarpon Toad

THE TARPON TOAD fly was invented by Gary Merriman, owner of the The Fish Hawk fly shop in Atlanta, Georgia. The toad is a light-weight, slow-sinking fly designed for sight-casting, and when it was introduced in the early 1990s in the Florida Keys, it immediately improved the hook-up rates for anglers pursuing skittish fish. The original Toad employed a...