by Mary L. Peachin with photography by Raymond Berry and Mary L. Peachin
Jul 2001, Vol. 5 No. 9
“Hey, Mom! Did you see The Perfect Storm?” Suzie, her stomach churning, groaned under sheets of rain as we bobbed up and down in a 24-foot boat in the Caribbean Ocean. Poor Suzie has a mom who lusts for catch-and-release tarpon fishing—and who was subjecting her to some conditions she hadn’t anticipated. Just as I was beginning to feel motherly, about to ask our guide, Clifford, to turn around and head for the calmer waters of the Rio Colorado, the tarpon struck the lure.