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Patrick,
I guess tarpon fishing is something you've missed in your vast but limited experience.
While they have no teeth they do have *powerful* jaws and sharp corners. You don't want to put your bare hand into the mouth of even a small tarpon! When you get a 100 pound tarpon boat side you don't want to fool around. He's still got a lot of fight in him.
If lip gaffing was such a hurtful thing to the fish I think we'd see acres of dead tarpon and other fish floating around.
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