Royal Star Fish Report

Fish Report for 4-30-2009

Royal Star Fish Report

4-30-2009
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Home sweet home. With my eight year old daughter Charlie and four year old son Duke climbing the walls in their excitement to see me, I slipped away for a moment to send today's photos less a ton of dialogue. I have plenty more to say about the amazing individuals who joined us on the latest Revillagigedo tagging adventure, and will do so next week, but for now enjoy the photos that really tell the story themselves. The sequence today features angler Tom Cahillane and his conservatively estimated 321 throughout the process of being lifted aboard, tagged, measured, photographed, and released. Notice the huge girth on this beauty. What an accomplishment! Congratulations Tom!

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