BOCA GRANDE, Fla. – Before his hook ever hit the water, Capt. Jamie Allen’s battle had begun. He whirled his fishing line like a gossamer-thin lasso and expertly plunked his lure right at the nose of a hungry tarpon.
It vanished in an instant, and the fly fisherman reeled with sudden fury.
A torpedo-like fish catapulted from the water in a wide arc, rotating mid-air and crashing down with a spray of saltwater. The 62-year-old heaved as his fishing pole bent into a horseshoe…