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A fish that combines many desirable attributes, beauty, grace, speed, sport and edibility, the Dolphin Fish is an open-sea inhabitant of coastal and reef waters. It is usually taken on trolled bait or lure and offers a hard fight to the angler fortunate enough to hook it.
When boated it makes spectacular display of form and colour; the huge brilliant blue-purple dorsal fin is repeatedly lowered and extended, while the body of the fish undergoes a series of extraordinarily beautiful changes - its normal coloration of bright blue-green with golden reflections becomes alternately dulled and intensified as a series of golden pink flushes overrun the skin.
The bright blue or green-blue spots on the side also range between dullness and brilliance with approaching death, when all the colours fade, last of all the yellow-orange of the fins. The Dolphin-fish reaches a length of 1.8 m and a weight of 28 Kg, and is characterised in having a steep blunt forehead, especially well developed in the older males and a single long-based dorsal fin extending from nape to tail.
Season: summer months
Location: open water, look for floating debris as they could be underneath
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