Chasing blue marlin, especially in tournaments, used to mean pulling out the big guns — those big gold Penn 80s and 130s that hold a mile of monofilament and cost more than my first car. But even ...

Fishing with fly rod or light conventional tackle on the rivers and billabongs and seacoast off Darwin, Australia, is, in the lexicon of guides and other facilitators of sport, “A bastard of a good ...