Word: tarpon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Best tarpon fishing is at Boca Grande (on the West Coast of Florida), Bahia Honda (in the Florida Keys) and Aransas Pass in Texas-where one may expect to catch at least one a day during June. World's record: 242½ Ibs., taken in the Panuco River, Mexico...
...feat of a handsome Miami girl named Frances Laidlaw. With a 3-ounce bait-casting rod and a small bait-casting reel which held 85 yards of No. 6-thread linen line-about the same tackle appropriate to sporty bass fishing-loa-lb. Frankie Laidlaw had landed a tarpon weighing...
Frankie had gone out off the Florida Keys in a rowboat by moonlight, fishing for ladyfish. She had caught a few when a sudden lunge at her line warned her that she had hooked no ladyfish. In a split second a huge tarpon vaulted out of the inky sea, "his eyes glaring like the headlights of an automobile and his body shining like an electric sign." For 55 minutes they struggled-the big "silver king" making 27 frenzied leaps before he was finally brought to gaff...
Miss Laidlaw's catch not only put to shame the heavy-tackle anglers who think they have accomplished something when they land a tarpon with 24-thread line, but also went on record as the outstanding achievement of this year's 99-day Miami Fishing Tournament. Deep-sea angling experts could not remember a more remarkable feat in Atlantic waters...
...question him, obtained a confession. He was tried for murder, repudiated his confession (which he said had been obtained by threats to drag his fiancee into the case) and convicted. Five times reprieved, he was still in the death house awaiting execution last May when Franklin Roosevelt, trolling for tarpon off Texas, received a letter from Newshawk Philip H. Love of the Washington Star. Newshawk Love reported that, preparing himself to write about the execution, he had consulted an account he had written six years ago at the time of the murder. He had found discrepancies. Checking up with police...