Pursuits: Big-Fish Story

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Sebastian Melani, one of the world’s top blue-water hunters, swims to the surface with a wahoo speared off the coast of Mexico

Image Credit: Photo by DJ Strunz

Sebastian Melani, one of the world’s top blue-water hunters, swims to the surface with a wahoo speared off the coast of Mexico
Mexico’s clear waters are swimming with mahi and tuna

Image Credit: Photo by Diego Santiago

Mexico’s clear waters are swimming with mahi and tuna
This tuna weighed in at 230 pounds

Image Credit: Photo by Diego Santiago

This tuna weighed in at 230 pounds
Back on land, the St. Regis Punta Mita offers blue-water hunters unusually luxurious accommodations. Amenities include the Jack Nicklaus–designed Pacífico golf courseand Mexican cuisine at Las Marietas

Back on land, the St. Regis Punta Mita offers blue-water hunters unusually luxurious accommodations. Amenities include the Jack Nicklaus–designed Pacífico golf courseand Mexican cuisine at Las Marietas
Las Marietas restaurant

Las Marietas restaurant
Melani poses with snappers; a mahi swims off the shores of Mexico

Melani poses with snappers; a mahi swims off the shores of Mexico
230-pound tuna is speared behind the gills

Image Credit: Photo by Diego Santiago

230-pound tuna is speared behind the gills
95-pound amberjack is caught during a Punta Mita Expeditions dive

Image Credit: Photo by Pedro Paz

95-pound amberjack is caught during a Punta Mita Expeditions dive
a relatively modest mahi will still make for a big dinner

Image Credit: Photo by Sebastian Melani

a relatively modest mahi will still make for a big dinner
The modern trophy fish is actually a custom-painted fiberglass mold, such as these examples by Gray Taxidermy in Pompano Beach, Fla.

The modern trophy fish is actually a custom-painted fiberglass mold, such as these examples by Gray Taxidermy in Pompano Beach, Fla.

Sebastian Melani, one of the world’s top blue-water hunters, swims to the surface with a wahoo speared off the coast of Mexico

Mexico’s clear waters are swimming with mahi and tuna

This tuna weighed in at 230 pounds

Back on land, the St. Regis Punta Mita offers blue-water hunters unusually luxurious accommodations. Amenities include the Jack Nicklaus–designed Pacífico golf courseand Mexican cuisine at Las Marietas

Las Marietas restaurant

Melani poses with snappers; a mahi swims off the shores of Mexico

230-pound tuna is speared behind the gills

95-pound amberjack is caught during a Punta Mita Expeditions dive

a relatively modest mahi will still make for a big dinner

The modern trophy fish is actually a custom-painted fiberglass mold, such as these examples by Gray Taxidermy in Pompano Beach, Fla.