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Formula to measure tarpon, game fish not exact science.(The Dallas Morning News)
ON THE GULF OF MEXICO _ The seas were calm off Galveston on July 21 when the Dallas-area fishermen spotted the nervous skitter of fleeing bait fish and saw the swirl of something big and silver in a weedline about eight miles offshore.
Ken Addington has fished lots of weedlines, but the former bass guide wasn't prepared for the silver king that darted out of the floating offshore weeds and took his fishing partner's bait. Addington lives in Mansfield these days, and the fish that cartwheeled skyward three times in acrobatic style, like an Olympic diver in reverse, was no largemouth.
Neither was it the high-country trout that Dan Thompson of Milford is more accustomed to fighting. His stiff boat rod heeled in an impressive arc as the tarpon, unable to throw the circle hook in its jaw, peeled 150 yards of heavy line in a single run.
The tarpon jumped three more times, then went deep in the 40-foot water and slugged it out for a timed 43 ...
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