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Fish Fight

Source: Crossing lines with locals fishing for food can get dangerous.

The blue marlin bite in the Dominican Republic has been red hot the past few years, with more U.S.- flagged boats spending the winters there to take advantage of this fishery. The spring white marlin fishing in the DR has been well known for years, but the winter blue marlin encounters constitute a fairly recent development.

Boats fishing out of Punta Cana on the east end and Puerto Plata to the north have experienced many days with double-digit bites, and new single-day release records have fallen

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