Show boarded by a monster tarpon A day or two ago the schooner flour bluff andrew anderson captain and john anderson mate was passing passin y through flour bluff blufe channel some bigit eight or ten miles down the coast from corpus christl christi everything was running along smoothly whon when suddenly the smoothness was broken by a 6 foot tarpon landing on deck the big fish at once began making things interesting on oa the boat and for a few moments the sailors contemplated seriously leaving their vessel and t taking aking to the woods they finally re regained gainal control of their nerve and decided decide d to have it out with the fish so one of them seized an ax and the others handspikes and at tho tarpon they went the struggle was ion long and fierce and one of the sailors there were five of them in all was knocked overboard by coming in contact with the tarpons tail A ropo rope was thrown him and helas he was pulled back on deck at last tho the fish r succumbed to the repeated blows of the ax and handspikes and lay along alon g the deck as dead as a mackerel cor san antonio express |