Sentence examples for marlin from inspiring English sources

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marlin

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Any species of game fish belonging to either of the genera or . Every such species has a pointed, spear-like projection of the upper jaw.

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You can also go deep sea fishing for tuna, mahi mahi and marlin.

There's also deep-sea fishing, and everyone shared the flurry of excitement when Alex from Belgium came back with his 75-kilo marlin.

To quell a marlin's power fishermen put drags on their lines, but even with a drag and a heavy-weight line it is rare that a fisherman overwhelms a marlin.

(Another sign of how elusive blue marlin are is that in the three days of the Cabo tournament, only 19 marlin above the minimum weight were taken by over 600 fishermen)."If you catch a big fish," says Mr Ennis disarmingly, "the fish screwed up".

Bonito are for sale at the water's edge, and stalls a few paces from the harbour offer rabbit fish, snappers, goat fish and a ropey-looking marlin.

A jumping marlin will tear almost any line, but fine fishermen, assisted by competent crews, have been known to bring in a large blue on a flimsy 4lb line.

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You have fishing, they like to say, and you have big-game fishing and then you have blue-marlin fishing.

'tis not all of fishing to fish", then the geniality and teamwork of blue-marlin fishing compares favourably with the solitary pastime of fly fishing.

Put simply, blue-marlin fishing is no longer a bloodsport.

It is not about who wins, but about the fight.Blue-marlin fishermen can be a haughty bunch.

Unlike salmon fishermen who endure the bleak, mosquito-infested mouths of northern rivers, blue-marlin fishermen have it relatively easy.

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