The 'Most Unusual' category at this year's Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo showcased a rarity that would have been very familiar to a rodeo icon, the late 'Dr. Bob' Shipp.
Sean Powers, director of the University of South Alabama’s Stokes School of Marine and Environmental Sciences and a judge at the Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo, holds up a blunt head puffer that won the "Most Unusual" category at the 91st ADSFR.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.
That took place back in 1984, as Shipp began a long, distinguished tenure as a rodeo judge and scientific liaison. Rodeo anglers had always caught their share of oddball sea creatures; Shipp wanted to capitalize on the interesting data they represented, and use them to bring more public awareness of the diversity of life in the Gulf.
Shipp said that fishermen were usually eager to explain where and how they caught their unusual fish. “Now when it comes to a hole where they find a lot of big red snapper, I’ve learned not to ask,” he said.
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