141 lbs., 1951. If a tarpon gets up to 200 pounds, you can imagine what eats a tarpon, said our backcountry fishing guide, Scott Roe, whose name was his fishing destiny. What eats tarpon, he said, are 400-pound bullsharks and much, much bigger hammerheads. Never trust a dead shark, Mr. Roe said, holding an allegedly dead bonnethead, that looks like a smaller hammerhead. It s good advice.
Some people fill their vacation shopping cart with postcard experiences.
Near Little Gasparilla, there are bike trails, historic sites where Spanish explorers landed in the 1500s, manatee exhibits, boat rentals, scuba diving, everglades adventures, dolphin tours, parasailing, state recreation areas and . Too bad missed the ferry again. Sentenced to another day in paradise on a peaceful beach under a flawless blue sky. Some of us are content to choose our vacation adventures the way we pick up shells on a beach slowly and more carefully, taking home just one or two to turn over in our memories while we wait for summer in Ohio, dreaming of Island Time. The Cincinnati Enquirer , a Gannett Co. Inc. newspaper.