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bizarre Ouch...fish broke his nose

The old 1,2 punch.
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You're supposed to wack them above the eyes.
I actually got into a brutal fight on my boat once with a 110 lb. halibut.
For the hell of it? Speak up a bit, I'm deaf...

On a serious note, that's a big halibut. We don't get them in Aus. All our flat fish are much smaller. Flounder and sole etc.

We do get sword fish though. There is a sports fishery just setting up to catch them. You have to go out off the continental coast into the deep water.

Marlin have been caught here for 100 years. Zane Grey, the old western writer, did a lot of opening up sports fishing grounds here in the pre war period.

At Bermagui, closest mainland town to the continental shelf, is found the Zane Grey hotel. My dad used to take me out big game fishing off the shelf. It was a 2 hour 'drive' out there and then suddenly the water went from a dark green to a deep dark blue colour. Marlin, tuna, shark etc etc came down the warm current from the north.
 
For the hell of it? Speak up a bit, I'm deaf...

On a serious note, that's a big halibut. We don't get them in Aus. All our flat fish are much smaller. Flounder and sole etc.
I was beating on the thing while it was beating the crap out of everything in my boat. All the while the game wardens pulled up and watched the whole thing. Laughing of course.
They gave it a short wack on the guts which stunned it instantly. Then we looped around the tail and through the gills in case it woke up again.
 
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