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My Largest Tarpon over 150 lbs

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I caught this tarpon on June 14, 2009..Very heavy fish, jumped 5 times but couldn't get its whole body out of the water. Took about 1 hour to land even with my dads kayak attached to mine with him paddling against the direction the fish was headed.


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Topic starter Posted : 11/15/2010 4:30 pm
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Whole bait for my 14/0s


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Posted : 11/15/2010 4:45 pm
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Absolutely unreal!
What do you think it weighed? Looks in the 200LB range.

Congratulations!


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Posted : 11/15/2010 5:35 pm
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Absolutely unreal!
What do you think it weighed? Looks in the 200LB range.

Congratulations!

I've never weighed a tarpon so it's all just speculation, but I had a few local tarpon captains tell me it's close to 200lb.


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Topic starter Posted : 11/15/2010 5:45 pm
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my personal best is 181lbs on the scale i would give that fish a solid 160lb


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Posted : 11/15/2010 5:56 pm
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very nice


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Posted : 01/06/2011 6:36 pm
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Hi Guys:

I've caught several Tarpon in the 180 lb range, my bigest one weighting in at 186 lbs. Most all of my Tarpon came from the mouth of the Rio Grande river in Texas. The smallest one, I had mounted in 1970. It was a mere 30 inches. It was mounted by Ansil Brundrette In Port Aransas, Texas. I am not sure of the spelling of his last name.

Norman Bateman


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Posted : 02/08/2011 2:52 pm
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That is one biiiiiiiiiggggggggg Tarpon.Congratulations Doug.


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Posted : 02/10/2011 7:50 am
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WOW that is a one big piece of bait right there :lol: :lol: Congratulations on a monster Tarpon


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Posted : 02/10/2011 9:11 am
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nice tarpon that is a biiggguuuummmm


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Posted : 02/10/2011 11:13 am
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Nice dude!! That fish is MASSIVE!


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Posted : 02/10/2011 3:11 pm
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id say that fish looks closer to 200lbs..anyways nice fish its a big boy


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Posted : 02/10/2011 5:07 pm
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Nice Tarpon. My biggest weighed Tarpon on the scale at 99lb. :D :o


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Posted : 02/10/2011 5:53 pm
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ya that thing is a monster hopefully ill have the opportunity to catch one that big onetime in my life


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Posted : 02/11/2011 9:07 am