Re: HUGE tarpon. this is not a fake
#62465
02/02/03 07:02 PM
02/02/03 07:02 PM
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I'd be almost scared if I ran into that one, even with a speargun.
Life May Be a Beach...I prefer Reefs...
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Re: HUGE tarpon. this is not a fake
#62468
02/03/03 11:11 AM
02/03/03 11:11 AM
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Gaz Cooper
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Monster of a fish
Thanks god we now have learn't to catch and release to allow such a behemoth the luxury of life after we have had our fun catching it and allowing it to be caught again another day.
Gaz
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Re: HUGE tarpon. this is not a fake
#62469
02/03/03 12:19 PM
02/03/03 12:19 PM
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Marty
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From a friend...
There was a time in my twenties, when big fish were normal in Belize. 36 lb lobster, 600 pound Jewfish, a three hundred pound jewfish was considered a baby. Conchs that were 18 inchs across.
That was Belize had even a smaller population than today. 40 years ago, just think Belize had 60,000 people or thereabouts. Game meat was the food on the mainland, venison, gibnot and such. I had a girl tourist of twelve years old, speared a Hogfish that was twice her weight and size. She was unable to get it in the boat it was so big out at Caye Bokel. One time I speared a black snapper that towed me a hundred yards underwater like I was a tinker toy.
I'm afraid like the American Indian and the Buffalo, the days of plenty and living off the land, bush and sea are gone for the next generation in most of Belize, except Toledo. You still get plenty of fish and game, but they are things we would have rejected and thrown back to grow up, when I was in my twenties. People lived subsistance. It was a great life back then. Such nostalgic memories. I'm glad I lived through those years to see what it was in old British Honduras. As population grows the complexity of life gets more expensive and while the material things make life easier, it consumes a whole lot more labor. There is not the leisure time for socializing we had back then.
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Re: HUGE tarpon. this is not a fake
#62472
02/08/03 01:00 PM
02/08/03 01:00 PM
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Posts: 278 Willard, Mo.,USA
Mel S
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If I remember, the tarpon come into the Reef and on the flats in August and sept. Once we saw this a huge school of tarpon off by Mexico rocks. We were snorkeling and we followed them. Of course everything looks bigger under the water, but these tarpon were as large as me. I am 6 feet and i weigh about 185 pounds. There are somewhat landlocked tarpon, they spend a good part of their lifes in the lagoons in Belize rural. I have caught several of them in the back of the old northern road near Maskall. We used Belam, or freshwater sprat. These tarpon are great jumpers and can spit a hook in a split second ! Best-Wishes, Mel S....by the way, watch out for ESPN's listing this coming week about fishing in Belize.
Mel Sinderman
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Re: HUGE tarpon. this is not a fake
#62473
02/08/03 02:03 PM
02/08/03 02:03 PM
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Oh, that's right Mel, I wrote them down for our son-in-law. He went this past October and loved it in Southern Belize. Feb. 12 @ 10 AM and Feb. 17 @ 9:30 is what I have written and that's on ESPN 2. If I remember correct, Belize River Lodge will have representation too, Mr. Mike. Thanks for the reminder. 
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