GIVE THAT TARPON A HAND: I had a few folks e-mail the down-south psuedo-catastrophe story of the fellow fighting a monster tarpon during a tournament in Florida and having his hand ripped clean off – and swum away with, much less. The victim’s name was Jack Wiseman. Weirdly, my first web read on the story included a photograph of a friend of Wiseman, laughing his ass off and pointing to where the hand used to be.
If you think it’s hilarious when your fishing buddy has an appendage ripped clean off by a huge fish, you just might be…
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