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Updated: 12/16/2012 07:59:52AM
Muscles clash in fishermen’s match
SUN PHOTO BY GREG MARTIN
Ronnie Barrett, left, and Jamie Hendrickson prepare to arm-wrestle as a bevy of fishermen stand by at Riviera Marina's commercial fish dock Dec. 8 in Punta Gorda.
SUN PHOTO BY GREG MARTIN
Ronnie Barrett, left, and Jamie Hendrickson grapple just after the start of an arm-wrestling contest Dec. 8 at the Riviera Marina's commercial fish dock.
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PUNTA GORDA — A bevy of boisterous fishermen who had gathered under the shade of some gumbo trees at the Riviera Marina last Saturday hailed this passing reporter over to witness what they claimed would be the arm-wrestling bout of the century.
And fishermen never exaggerate, or so it would seem.
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