A donated tagging expedition raffle prize turned into an experience a local shark researcher will never forget. It took more than 11 hours but Elliot Sudal reeled in a smalltooth sawfish while fishing with the raffle winner along a Sanibel beach last Thursday.
Man fishing on Sanibel beach reeled in a fish he described as
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