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Some of the world's best saltwater fishing is to be had in the warm waters off Florida's coast. Shrewd hands usually wait until late spring, when the big runs of bluefin tuna, tarpon, blue & white marlin begin. But for the professional small-boat skipper the best fishing time is now-when the tourists are running...
Terrible-Tempered Tarpon. In Port Isabel, Texas, a 6-ft., 125-lb. tarpon got mad at Fisherman William Bledsoe, jumped out of the water into his boat, busted four of his ribs, knocked him overboard, but was too tired to follow him back...
...picture has one important good point: it was a fine idea to locate the family exactly in the actual world (the vicinity of Tarpon Springs, Fla.). This could become a valuable movie habit...
...offers male cinemaddicts little for their money except innumerable coyly brazen veilings and half-unveilings of Joan Fontaine's Restoration bosom, and a startling scene in which Miss Fontaine, alone in a dress-parade nightgown, frisks and flops about on her marshmallowy bed like a titillated tarpon. But to judge by the gasps, oofs, titters and low moans of the audience which stuffed Manhattan's Rivoli Theater on the opening day, the picture may well hurdle a lukewarm press to become the woman's wow of the year...
...surf and bay fishing, there are only a few spots where saltwater angling is allowed: notably in the Pacific off Southern California's Santa Monica pier, where chartered boats may go as far as ten miles offshore ; in some parts of the Florida keys ; and the famed tarpon paradise at Aransas Pass in Texas. To fish in any salt waters requires a Coast Guard Permit...