Daily Travel Photo: Hand Feeding Giant Wild Tarpon
Watch Out for the Sea Monster!
At Robbie’s Restaurant in Key Largo Florida, if you go out back on the docks with a bucket of bait and stick your hand over the water, something like this will happen…
Giant 4-6 foot long Tarpon will leap out and snatch the bait from your hands. Or, in some cases, they’ll decide your hand itself is a bit more tasty.
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Never having heard of a tarpon I decided to look them up on Wikipedia.
This sentence caught my eye: “Adults are strictly carnivorous and feed on mid-water prey; they swallow their food whole and hunt nocturnally.”
So yes, I can see how a hand might be attractive to them
Looking forward to the video.
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Wow. that is such a great photo! I can’t believe the fish jumped out like that to get food. Almost like a dog!
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Going to have to give that a try when I am down there again!
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wow! you also got some scratches!
I think I’d have instinctively withdrawn my hand in a fingersnap after seeing a mouth that big
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Yup! He was hungry.