Big Fish Stories Getting Littler

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They came, they fished, then snap! They posed. Right in front of their Big Catch ? and thereby hangs a tale.

For generations, tour boats have been collecting fishing enthusiasts in Key West, Fla.: taking them for a day of deep sea casting; providing them rods, bait, companionship; and then, when the day ends, there's a little wharf-side ceremony. Everyone is invited to take his biggest fish and hook it onto the "Hanging Board"; a judge compares catches, chooses a champion, and then the family that caught the biggest fish poses for a photograph. The one up above comes from 1958. Notice that the fish on the far left is bigger than the guy who, I assume, caught it; and their little girl is smaller than most of the "biggies" on the board. Those aren't little people. Those are big fish.

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those are Goliath Grouper and the pic shows why there is a moratorium on them today .... can't even remove them from the water for a pic nowadays ... not legally .... just goes to show why we are now subject to federal mismanagement concerning other species ... other folks could have released theirs after the catch because 1 fish would have sent everyone home with more than they could have eaten

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