goggle-eye
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I place the lead hook in front of the dorsal fin of a goggle-eye, blue runner or yellowtail or through the nostrils of a speedo or tinker mackerel.
From Time Magazine Archive
Photo: Courtesy of Todd Lumpkin During day two of the fishing trip Bill Lumpkin and his son Todd took off Cabo San Lucas last fall, the deckhand spotted a fish and pitched a goggle-eye.
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Another fish was spotted, another goggle-eye was pitched and another stripie was hooked � this time by Bill.
From Time Magazine Archive
That 66 3/4-pound monster, caught in the late 1980s by Margot Vincent, ate a goggle-eye dangling under a kite.
From Time Magazine Archive
The fishes in which the average country boy is interested are the larger ones—such as the goggle-eye, the sucker, chub, and sunfish—those which, when caught, will fill up the string and tickle the palate.
From A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. by Jordan, David Starr
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