Topic: Biggest tarpon of year highlights record-setting day

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ESPNOutdoors.com
Updated: May 25, 2009, 11:08 PM ET


Photo by Bob Theriault
Jeff Totten and Team Century/Yamaha hold their Week 2, 174-pound winning tarpon.

BOCA GRANDE, Fla. — Getting away from the pack paid off for legendary Boca Grande Capt. Jeff Totten and his Team Century/Yamaha mates.

In Week 2 of the Miller High Life Professional Tarpon Tournament Series presented by Century Boats, Totten decided to avoid entangling with the 49 other boats of four-man teams fishing on a record-setting day in Boca Grande Pass, Fla.

"With so much action I wanted to find my own fish, so I used my Humminbird side imaging to find a small pod away from the pack and we got bit," Totten said.

Totten and Team Century/Yamaha stole the show just after the first hour of competition, when their fish reached the Miller's Ale weighboat and tipped the Tires Plus scale at 174 pounds, the largest fish weighed during the 2009 season.

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