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It is easy to tell tourists from tarpon. Tarpon have a narrow, bony plate inside the mouth of their lower jaw. Tourists have both upper and lower plates.

Ed Zern

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Ed Zern
Age: 83 †
Born: 1910
Born: December 13
Died: 1994
Died: March 25
Columnist
Environmentalist
Fisher
Humorist
Writer
Farmington
West Virginia
Rivers
Lakes
Sea
Narrow
Inside
Fishing
Easy
Lower
Bony
Tell
Fishes
Tourists
Boat
Upper
Mouth
Plate
Mouths
Plates

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