Remember that state record tarpon caught last year?

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Remember that state record tarpon caught last year?

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Remember this tarpon?

http://www.texaskayakfisherman.com/foru ... pon+record

My daughter is working in a lab here at UT and they are getting ready to turn that fish into a skeleton. It's been frozen for a year now. They spent yesterday making prints of the fish. They painted it and covered it with cloth. Then peeled the cloth off and you have a tarpon print. They made several prints and will send one to Jeremy. I asked my daughter if she could get one of the prints. That would make a cool base camp flag!!! We'll see.

They're not going to put the skeleton back together but save it in pieces so people who do research can get access to various parts of the skeleton.

I was floored when she called me and told me she was going to work on some big fish. When I found out what fish it was, I sent here the pictures from TKF. I don't know how it ended up in the collection here at UT.
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Yhat just a little minno. :shock: Great crappie bait. :lol: :lol:

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I USED to fish w/ that guy down at 91stpier....thats one big poon..
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I've fished at the pier when Jeremy was there fishing, man that guy is all right. This guy and his brother Jacob allways out fish everybody out on that pier. It couldn't of happened to a more deserving guy, he has spent many many hours out on the 91st pier. The biggest shark I ever saw landed was buy him out on that pier. That monster was 7.5ft long and a estimated weight of 220lb. It was a Sandbar, but it might a well of been Moby Dick himself the way that shark went Ape Shizznittle when it hit the deck. Cool pictures, I especially like that sh!# eating grin on his face. :lol: 8)
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Uhhhhhh.......wow! Where abouts did he catch that bad boy?
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Cracker Yak wrote:Uhhhhhh.......wow! Where abouts did he catch that bad boy?
He caught it at the 91st. pier in Galvaston. Also known as the Galvaston Pleasure Pier.
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That is AMAZING!!!! Do tarpon show up in the area often?
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Izzy wrote:
Cracker Yak wrote:Uhhhhhh.......wow! Where abouts did he catch that bad boy?
He caught it at the 91st. pier in Galvaston. Also known as the Galvaston Pleasure Pier.
61st maybe no 91st there that I,m aware of.
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redhead wrote:
Izzy wrote:
Cracker Yak wrote:Uhhhhhh.......wow! Where abouts did he catch that bad boy?
He caught it at the 91st. pier in Galvaston. Also known as the Galvaston Pleasure Pier.
61st maybe no 91st there that I,m aware of.
NOT at 61st. There is a 91st street pier aka the galveston T pier.
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Post by Izzy »

When you look for tides time on the internet for that location it is called The Galvaston Pleasure Pier. I think they call it that cause you get pleasure from catching fish there. :lol:
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Man the sucker is huge...
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