A fish that could feed a village

Eating fish has been on my mind lately what with this being Lent and all and me helping cook fish at St. Patrick’s in Elmwood (come on out and sample some Fridays from 4:30-6:30 p.m.) And when I saw this picture, the first thing I thought was, “We could make some money for the men’s club on this sucker.” Course it would take a long fight to cut this monster into fillets.

As the story goes, this 359.1-pound warsaw grouper was caught by a medical student from Thibodaux, La. named J.J. Tabor. He is said to blindfold people before showing them his fishing spots. The grouper is a Louisiana record but is well off the world record, a 436-pound, 12-ounce grouper caught off Florida in 1985.

Incidentally, the first fillet off Tabor’s fish weighed a reported 53 pounds.