Port Isabel High School - Tarpon Yearbook (Port Isabel, TX)

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An attempt will be made to enlarge other phases of the contest with special emphasis on 1948 upon a full dav of entertainment at the close of the rodeo The entertainment nrozram is not ready for an official announcement at this time but plans are to make it biz er and better than ever The rodeo will be en larged from year to year as Port Isabel and the Valley expand until the contest eventlallv reaches the magnitude that we have visualized The Rodeo has passed the evperimental state It is now well established that such a fishing contest upon a National scale is practical, that its success can be assured from year t year, and that the sporting public of the Nation is interested to the point that no distance is too great for fishermen to travel to enjoy wholesome competition which such a contest in sures It fell to the lot of the little city of Port Isabel to be first in the Nation to prove the practicability of a national sport fishing contest Helen Lu Burnell and her 6 ft , 102 lb Mrs Thelma Campbell and her 5 ft , Tarpon, the heaviest caught in the Rodeo 9 in , Bl lb Tarpon caught in the of 1947 Rodeo of 1947 ku!- 1 'EIL Frying fish at the Rodeo. 71

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Hope Lang, Charles Burnell, and Helen Lu Burnel' with their Tarpon catch of the Rodeo of 1947 Monroe Nowoten,, 8 years old caught 5 ft ll in tarpon Because of the threat of war in the summer of 1941 the contest was abandoned for that year and was not renewed because of the war until 1947 This first post war renewal was our eighth contest and was also quite successful although conducted with many handicaps, such as scarcity of proper boat facilities, inability of contestants to purchase new tackle, etc With the detractions from the war and its repercussions manv had for fotten the stories carried to them bv the rodeo in its earlier vears, but the impressions left from the records of past years that our fishing is superior were lasting The Port Isabel Chamber of Commerce, in cooperation with the Valley-wide Rodeo committee, have had plans for the expansion of this event. The objective of keeping the rodeo in the fore- front as the most outstanding sport fishing event in the United States will continue to be stressed. The 1948 contest has been enlarged to include an all-season event in each of the three divisions, marlin, sail-fish, and tarpon. The winner of this subdivision of the contest will be determined by the registered angler who brings to gaff the largest fish in each of these divisions. As an award for these three anglers he or she will be given an all expense trip to the northern lakes region of the State of Minnesota, where he or she will be a guest of the Deer River Junior Association of Commerce for a full week of fishing for muskelunge, pike and bass. All hotel accomodations transportation, meals, boats, guides, bait, etc., will be free to the winners. 70 Mr Duribage caught longest tarpon 9

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