Deep-sea catch

Usage examples of marlin.

Suddenly the line was plucked from his fingers, but for an instant he felt the mighty weight and majesty of the marlin as it struck the bonito with the broad blunt edge of its spike.

The two perissodactyl mammals started playing catch with the Marlin Perkins impersonator who had led a questionable life before going to Hell.

Captain Steve was convinced that we might hook a marlin or at least a big ahi at any moment, and he wanted to be at the controls when it happened.

It was a world of ceralean blues, deep-velvet purples, inked greens, of wide brainstone coral cliffs and deep-bottomed troughs where the sea turned black in the chartless depths--a world of eel and octopus and squid, of the soldier crab and the loggerhead turtle, of jeweled angelfish, gliding manta rays, and great blue marlin.

The line was calibrated to a tensile strength of one hundred twenty pounds, for it was designed to withstand the deep-water surges of giant marlin and bluefin tuna.

They excited my curiosity to such extent that I got out photographs of yellow-fin tuna, broadbill swordfish, Marlin swordfish, and sailfish.

Any moment I might raise an enormous black Marlin or a great sailfish or mako, or even a broadbill, not to think of some new species of fish.

Nevertheless, you must almost do that if you expect to see a Marlin or a mako or a broadbill flash up out of the depths.

We crowded around the rail of the military ship, the Marine Marlin, my mother, father, my uncle Chil and I together with all the other passengers.

Marlin gave the rookie a moment to visualize demotion to a patrol unit.

The blast of the Marlin was deafening in the confines of the tunnel, and Geronimo was aware of a ringing in his ears as he levered his second round into the chamber.

Going over the causeway at Haulover Cut, Foley threw his brand-new Marlins baseball cap out the window.

Silvery marlin fins of froth and spray washed up and along and over the fenders, and the hood latch popped itself ajar.

He saw the Marlin lying on the carpet and quickly retrieved it, flung the axe aside and levered in a new round.

Marlin sent out robot hovercraft and is having two superheavies repaired.