You wouldn’t think a blunt head puffer is a fish that could inspire tender sentiment, but one brought tears to a few eyes at the 91st Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo. A blunt head puffer caught by Mandy Tillman won the rodeo’s “Most Unusual” category over some more exotic-sounding runners-up: a rosy razorfish and a shortjaw lizardfish. There’s a reason it took the trophy, and for a lot of the scientists gathering data at the rodeo, it was personal.