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...probably impossible to go fishing in Belize and not catch something. If you don't care what, hire a skiff and go trolling off the reef with a heavy spinning rod and deep-running lure. That will produce anything from an overambitious triggerfish (beautiful colors but sluggish: let it go) to a large black snapper or a larger wahoo. Or, if you are unlucky, an enormous barracuda. The latter will either break your leader in the water or do its best to bite your foot off if you get it in the boat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blissing Out in Balmy Belize | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

...conversation returned to the head of the table where Alfred Butterfield was talking not about groupers, nor queen triggerfish, nor toadfish, but sponge crabs. "Sponge crabs dress themselves up to look like sponges," he said, explaining that discriminating fish don't consider sponges good eating, "but little crabs are!" He went on, "We were determined to get them in the picture. We got some little sponge crabs. We left them alone because we wanted them to be happy. We didn't bother them, except to feed them, and didn't turn on any lights. And they didn...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: More Secrets of the Reef | 10/24/1956 | See Source »

...saying triggerfish under water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 15, 1953 | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

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