Even as we drove up, two anglers were fighting fish, but I churned on past.
"But you've just been fighting monstrous mad devil fish!"
Basil asked as he watched a pair of ships perform a breathtaking maneuver in a narrow gorge below, like two daredevil fighting fish.
In contrast to fast tapers, the slow flex rods offer the angler advantages when fighting large fish with light fishing line.
One of them, Don Mohr, was bringing a blue back to his truck, and the two others were fighting fish.
At the end of the jetty, we saw a number of fly casters fighting fish.
Indeed, I spent more time reclaiming line while fighting fish than trying to get one to bite.
"On good days, we often have to fight fish on several rods at once."
If an angler was a particularly good fisherman, he developed well-muscled arms from fighting fish and bringing them to the net.
But sometimes I'd rather be fighting fish and storms than bureaucrats.