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United Arab Emirates
This amalgamation of several Arab sheikdoms on the shores of the Arabian Gulf seems an unlikely fishery, yet during their winter (October-March) the warm, shallow seas off Dubai swarm with the fattest, friskiest sailfish you’ll ever see – fish over 150 lb have been caught, with one of 230 lb released on 28 March, 2002. Livebait is the popular method, but these fish shoal so close to the boat that it remains the best destination we’ve seen for flycasting to free-swimming sails without having to tease them to the boat first. Huge king mackerel and wahoo are present, also dorado and queenfish. No marlin, the water’s just too shallow.
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