Swimming Tarpon Greeting Cards

The majestic—almost surreal—underwater photographs of tarpon made by Don DeMaria and featured in A Passion for Tarpon are featured in this set of 12 handsome greeting cards. The conservationist and diver made the images at Bahia Honda, Florida, during the fabled palolo worm hatch. Four different images are reproduced three times each—12 cards total with matching envelopes in a colorful presentation box. This is the perfect gift for the passionate tarpon angler. You’ll have fun sending them to your fishing pals and guides, too. Cards are 5 x 7 inches folded and blank inside with the following inscription on the back: Tarpon The tarpon (Megalops atlanticus) is one of the great game fish of the world. For more than 100 years, anglers fishing shallow-water tropical flats and estuaries have thrilled to the powerful surges and spectacular leaps of the "silver king." Tarpon are highly migratory. They swim in coastal waters of western Africa, where they are known to reach weights of 300 pounds. In the western Atlantic Ocean, they range from Virginia to Florida, Bermuda, throughout the Gulf of Mexico, central America and the Antilles Islands in the Caribbean Sea, and to Brazil. Tarpon are survivors, as a species that has evolved over more than 100 million years, and as remarkably hardy individuals. In 1935, a tarpon—59 inches long and estimated to be 10 years old—was captured in the wild and put on display at Chicago’s famous Shedd Aquarium. In 1998, the captive tarpon died when it jumped out of its live tank, an incredible 63 years later. ISBN 978-098422714-3