At all these points the concentrations of vast shoals of bait-fish attracted the ocean predators -the giant marlin and the tuna species.

The giant marlin caught here are legendary among deep-sea fishermen, although, at £500 a day, fishing is expensive.

One of his most famous works, it centers upon Santiago, an aging fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.

Inside it were the hulls of seven 12-Meter yachts, strung up like giant marlins that had been stuffed and mounted.

Dad is obsessed with hunting the giant marlin that caused his son's death, his daughter devotes herself to her brother's brilliant inventions, and Junior collects knives.

All right, probably you have not blown up bridges in Spain or battled a giant marlin single-handedly for days on end or even seen a bullfight.

Having enough disturbance, Oswald scares the fishes away but a giant marlin didn't take his gesture too kindly.

During 1992 to 1996 Madeira was the scene of some incredible fishing for giant blue marlin, bringing the island to the attention of marlin fishermen worldwide.

Africa Bazaruto Archipelago in Mozambique is a premier destination for giant black marlin.

For a moment I watch Jonah poised next to the giant marlin with the barbed steel hook lancing its gill, and wonder which one of them looks more dead.