Parker's Plumbing Prototypes.  A Family Tradition.  The Plastics Revolution.  The Secret Gets Revealed.  Regional Differences Provide Variety.  An Old-Time Lure Maker with New Ideas.  Testing by Tournament Competition.  The Return of the Big Lure.  Soft and Squishy.  Rollin' and Unravelin'.  Pop-Topping Options.  Winners and Failures.  Something Else.  Climb on a Jet.   Thrashers.  Doornobs.  Better than a Beer Can. 

The Preferred Choice.  From Panama?  Marrying the Bridle Paths.  Bimini, Too.  The "Hawaii Rig" Goes Globetrotting.  From Big Blues to Giant 'Ahi.  Shaking a Bad Rap.  Live-Baiters Take on Tag and Release.  Standing on the Shoulders of Schmidts.  The Bridle Travels to the Tail.  Bridling "Softhead" Baits.  First, Catch the Bait. Aku Eyesight is Acute. The Ten-Grand Bait Saver.  The Pros and Cons of Double-Hooked Baits.  Safety Factors.  Small Baits are Marlin Slurpees.  Aku and Bait Tanks.  The Hose Still Works.

Sane and Weird.  Curing the Shakes.  More Line, Please.  Big Meals for Big Fish.  Out-thinking the Fish.  Big Hooks for Big Fish?  Ready for Everything.  Stump Pullers and Buggy Whips.  Big Fish Mode.  Never Start a Fight You Can't Finish.  Bait Works, Too.  Big Fish and Small Battles.  How Big is Too Big?  Long Fight, Long Loss.  Too Big to Intimidate.  Getting Close, Staying Close.  When One Grand Isn't Grand Enough.  Where's the Line?  A Twenty-Minute Lead. El Nino is a El Si Si.  With a Little Bit of Help from Some Enemies.  When Marlin Fishing Isn't "Grand."  The Grand Old Days.  Pulling an All-Nighter.

A Millennium of Success.  The Way Fish Strike Lures.  A Better Mousetrap.  Outwitting a Prop Watcher.  Rough and Tumble.  "Vee" for Victory.  Breaking Away.  Many Degrees avoid Separation.  Second Hook, First Gaff.  Why Use Hooks Anyway?  Release is Tricky.  How Many Lures Does it Take to Make a Pattern?  Within Minutes.  The State Record Striper Took Three Lures.  Trolling and Thinking.  More Trolling and Thinking.  It Only Takes One.

The Enormous Enigmas.  Incredible Accounts.  A 300-pound Snack.  Twenty-two Feet and Counting.  Marlin with a Tuna Mustache.  The Largest Certified Blue of all Time?  Gross Tonnage by Truck.  Can It Be Done?  A Clue in Choy's Catch.  Giants Do Fall Down Beanstalks Sometimes.  Twenty-to-one Says You Can Do It.  What Does a Tonner Look Like?  Small Face Look.  A "Maybe" in Tahiti.  Not Granders End-to-End.  How to Catch a Tonner.  Some Practical Limits on Marlin Size.  How Old Is a Tonner?  Should a Tonner be Boated if a Tonner be Caught? Where?

See a Marlin, Look for Controversy.  The First Certified Pacific Blue.  No Blues by Decree.  "I'm That Awful Miss La Monte." Geography and Politics?  Confusion Still a Daily Occurrence.  Rules for Identifying Pacific Marlin.  We Used to Know More Than We Do Now.  The View from the Twenty-First Century.  What Do Marlin See and When Do They See It?  The Primary Asset.  Big Baits. Small Baits.  Which Are Better and When?  The Bottom Line.  Do Scents Make Sense?  How about Marlin? And What Really is the Best Moon Phase to Catch Marlin in Hawaii? Our Third Grade Researchers Find a Curious Result.  A Spawning/Feeding/Moon Phase Link.  But it Isn't Just in Hawaii.  Seas Uncluttered by Nay-Sayers.  Big Game is a Ladies Game, too.  Harvey's Undersea Observations.  Turn and Swallow.  Sneak up and Stop.  Hook Position Helps.  Does the Pause Argue for Soft Lures?   How Much do Billfish Bill?  Maybe Sometimes.  Sniffing a Skirt.  More and Better Hookups.  X Marks the Spot.  Billfish Hide from Baits.  Teasing a Listless Billfish.  Marlin May Survive Massive Injuries.

Tracking Tuna.  Sonic Telemetry Tells the Tale.  FAD Regulars.  A Dramatic FAD Effect.  Racing through the Rocks.  Unclouded Vision.  Good Vibrations, Tuna Style.  Tuna like Company.  Calling Hawaii Home.  A Grueling Track.  How Deep, How Cold?  Tuna and Racial Diversity.  Peek at the Pecs.  Mexico's Cows Stay Close to Home.  Big Tuna of Yore.  The Mating Song of the Yellowfin Tuna.  The Summer Influx is a Spawning Run.  Snuggling Close to Shore.  The Old Dormitory Rule.  Hunting in a World of Blue Light.

Starting Successful Habits.  The Annual Spring 'Ahi Buzz.  Sporadic Bursts Year 'Round.  Summer Emotions Are Mixed .  What Will the Tuna Want this Year?  Be Ready to Adapt and Change.  'Ahi Attack Lures in Packs.  Toss Them a Live One.  A Tuna Hits like a Howitzer.  Sting em with a Squid. Squid Colors Range from Dull to "Dennis Rodman."  Tuna Can See Your Leader .  Light the Night.  Night Fishing Tuna Hits Big Everywhere.  Swim a Minnow Plug.  Getting the Correct Wiggle Point.  Spreader Rigs

Logging Tuna.  Doin' the Drop.  Twins are Traveling Companions.  Right Tools for the Job.  More Than a Passing FAD. Jigs and Dolphins.  Tuna Jigging.  Marking Line.  Throwing Stones.  A Modern Adaptation.  Go Deep.  Downrigging with Opelu.  Freelining into the Depths.  Urge a Reluctant Bait with a Sliding Weight. 

Decoys: Past, Present and Future?  Three-way Hookup.  The Price of Curiosity.  The Point is Decoys.  Big Bulls on Blind Strikes.  "In Season."  Chug! Chug!  Foot-long Darts.  Boating a Wrestler.  Dead Baits Will Do. Drawing Strikes from Disinterested Fish.  Mahimahi Growth.  Outwitting the "Hoggees."  Now that you have their Attention.  Big Time Charlie.  Doubles and Triples.  The Right Hook.  Capt. Jack's "low approach."

Hawaii "Down Under."  A Return of Favors. Lure Trolling Hawaii-style.  Bait-Fishing Advantages.  Strong Influences Both Ways.  Baits and Lures Together.  Sharks Unbalance the Equation. Skipping Baits Back Home.  Wide Spread Influence.  Repaying with Sashimi. The Aggressive Style is All in the Butt.  How much Mechanical Advantage? Big Blacks Rare Here.

What Happens to Marlin After Release? Survival Issues.  A Five-Hour Saga.  Questions Remain.  PSATs Provide More Info.  Controversy Brews.  Important Questions.  High Mortality No Surprise.  Surviving Longline Release.  It Comes Down to Procedure.  Articles of Faith.  The Marathon Marlin.  Galapagos not Surprising.  Implications for Billfish Management.  No Gain, What a Pain!  Males are Smaller than Females for Good Reason.  Evolutionary Gamesmanship.  Boatside Estimates are Just That.  Returns from Returns.  Blue Tells More Tales.  Striped Marlin Tagging Strong Down South.  Blues Big In Aussie Tagging Program.  Hawaii a Favorite for Recovering Blue Marlin.  Hawaii's Tagging History.  What's Wrong with this Picture?  Everting Can Cause Problems.  Surviving Bill Breakage.  What Happens if a Billfish Breaks Away with the Hook?  Twice Decorated in Battle.  Hawaii's Pivotal Role.  Improving the Odds.

Discovering Spearfish.  Do you Know your Momma?  The Long and Short of Size Differences.  White Marlin/Striped marlin Distinctions.  Around Africa.  Spearfish Don't Cross with Blues.  Formidable on Ultra-Light Tackle.  Tease and Switch to Pick and Choose.  Flipping the Switch.  Pick Your Tackle to Match Your Fish.  "Chuckers."  Big and Splashy Does the Trick.  Tail First.  Follow the Leader Rules.  Hook Points.  The Drag is Everything.  Trolling Light.  Right Tackle, Wrong Angler?  Strong Enough When Needed.  Stretch Helps.  For the Record.  Abundant Nowhere but Here.  So Why "Chucker"?  Flyfishing the Flats for Spearfish.  Broadbills.  Same Guy, Much Bigger Broadbill.  Summer for Swordfish.  Mightier than the Sword

Flyfishing "All IGFA."  Tease them to the Fly.  Spotted from the Bridge.  Flyfishing the FADs.  A Practical Limit.  Targeting Tuna.  Distance Not a Problem.  Chumming Produces Aku Record.  Jumps and Jerks.  Bring Your Own Gear.  Reels for Salt Water.  Hawaii's First Blue Marlin Caught on Fly, all IGFA.  Guatemala Prep.  Teasers, Do Your Stuff.  An Intrepid Flyrodder's Hot Rod.  Ready for Bigger Game.

The Best Season for Ono.  Rapping to "The Beat Goes Ono."  When Ono Riot.  Breaking the Unbreakable.  Bigger Yet.  Early to Rise, Light up the Eyes.  An Ono by the Grace of the A'u King.  With a Paladin to Gaff.  Delicious, indeed, if not in Name.  Ono Kisses.

All Great Gamefish.  Ulua, the Giant Trevally.  Upping the Odds.  Ulua the Easy Way.  Kahala Stay Deeper.  The Voracious Rainbow Runner.  Blue, Gold, Black and Silver "Bluefin."  The Africans of the Central Pacific.  California Jigging.  Multiple Strikes Common.  Ulua-jigging Tackle.  The Weke Ula, Uku and Ulua Link.  First, Catch the Bait.  Learning from Thieves.  Big Fish in Caves.  Good Ulua Holes

FADS Aren't Just Fads.  Two Frustrations.  FAD Fish Go Deep.  Deep-jigging Produces FAD Tuna of All Sizes.  Ripping the FADs for Ono.  Casting for Buoy Mahimahi.  Types of FADs.  Floating FADs versus Submerged FADs.  Blue Monday.  The Best Day Ever.  Surviving by Living Large.

Po'onui.  Bigeye on Four.  Decoys May Spell Disaster.  Where and When.  Albacore.  Setting the Record.  Ika-Shibi, Mystery and Magic.  Chum and Bait.  Kamikaze Confusion.  Kamikaze Kawakawa.  The Biggest Kawakawa.  Sabre-Toothed Skipjack.  A Bluefin for the Bride.

Start at the Bottom.  When Bait Show.  Historical Guidance.  Ill Winds Don't Always Blow No Good.  High Marks for High Seas.  Rough Water Lure Selection and Presentation.  A Good Test.  Roughing it with Bait.  Cockpit Advice for Rough Days.  Handling Fish in Rough Seas.  Work the Swell.  Safety.  Gear for Rough Seas.  Go Deep for Big Game.  Details, Details.  Play it like a Fish.  Cranky over Hand Cranking.  Blind Luck.  Electrical Attractions.  Another Presentation.  Combo Leaders.  Ten Quick Tips for Downrigger Fishing.  If they Won't Hit, Change the Pace.  Just because the Line is Pouring Straight off the Back of the Boat Doesn't Mean you Know Where the Fish Is.  Can't Match the Hatch? Match the Whole Batch.  Birds of all Feathers.  Hello Blackbird.  Too Much Attraction.  Modified for Mahimahi.  Dragonflies for Aku.  Ulua Can't Resist.  Greenstick Birds.  Bird Details.  What Fish Don't Learn in Schools.

Kayak Whispers.  Shark Skin and Chicken Skin.  Offshore for Solitude, Exercise and Tuna.  The Color of Gold and Silver.  Outrigger Action.  Special Gear for Small Craft.  The Ulua Fishfinder.  A Sailfishing Kayak.

Monster Mako.  Sharp Edges Row on Row.  Backing up the Claim.  Spectacular Fights.  Tigers by the Score.  Marlin versus Shark. And the Winner Is?  Get a Bait in the Water!  A Dead Weight in the Depths.

Fishin' and Superstition Don't Just Rhyme.  A 474-pound Case of the Banana Yus.  Never Play Dodge with a Flying Ono.  Aloha Tuna.  "Boating" a Fish from Land.  Hunting the Huntress.  Bill-less Billfish.  A Stomach for Surprises.  Not without a Burp.  Other Species Aren't So Lucky.  Big-game Fishing is a Man's Game.  Go Get 'Em.  When in Doubt, Stay Home.  Strange Even to a Shark.  Beware the Chair.  Long Fights Go to the Fish.  Eating the Laundry.  Tail Hook Too Far Back for IGFA Rules.  The Best Place to Crash.  A Grander any Month.  Big Enough for Man or Fish.  Jigging for Broadbills.  Sexy as a Mahimahi.  Are you Right-billed or Left-billed?  Swim Right Over Here, Baby.  Shark Scores Low on IQ Test.  Giant Mystery Still Out There.  An Apple a Day.  Killer Whale Attacks Marlin.  Take a Taxi to the Action.  Bill the Marlin for the Prop.  Huge Tuna Just a Marlin Pupu.  What's That!  And the Marlin was still There.  Feed 'em What they Eat.  Didgeridoo a Grander.  Getting the Big-Game Heebie Jeebies.  Just a Huge Teaser.  April Fool.  Hanging Out with Foxes.  Constant Drama.  Voodoo Luck.  The Right Stuff.  A Remarkable Recovery.  The Perfect Pattern.  The Real Rules of Fishing.

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