Re: Texas \"Hootie\"
Unless it's been beaten recently, the world record leopard puffer fish is 16 lbs 3 oz, caught by my cousin, Bob Joyce, in '73, when he was just 13 years old, off a sea-wall in Lake Park, Florida. We were fishing for snook.
That thing blew up bigger than a basketball when we pulled it out of the water. There was a wildlife officer right there, which is how he got the record. It was mounted and displayed in Herb's Tackle Shop in Lake Worth, Florida for many years.
Prior to that, I think the biggest one I had ever seen was about 2 lbs.
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'73 Cobia 18' prototype "Casting Skiff", 70hp Mercury
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