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Word: billfish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1964-1964
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...isolated jungle inlet, 150 miles southeast of Panama City, Pinas (or Pineapple) Bay is the world's hottest marlin ground, better than Peru, better than New Zealand, Hawaii or the Bahamas. There, swarming around a bait-packed barrier reef seven miles offshore, are more different kinds of billfish, and more of each, than anybody has ever seen before: big Pacific sailfish in such profusion that fishermen consider them a nuisance, literally thousands of blue marlin, silver marlin, striped marlin and the lordly blacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fishing: All Out for Banzai! | 7/10/1964 | See Source »

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