goggle-eye
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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.
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
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
The black bass, and brook trout, and sturgeon, and goggle-eye are familiar examples of fish which have this habit.
From The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals by James Weir
He darted in, and nabbed the bait more like a goggle-eye than a sucker, but he was caught all the same.
From Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi by George H. Devol
Brachycephalics are widely adored for their goggle-eyes, wrinkled faces and waddling gaits.
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2023
Best baits include live pilchards and ballyhoo, as well as half sections of fresh goggle-eyes, ballyhoo, squid and conch.
From Time Magazine Archive
Get live baits, such as pilchards, herring or goggle-eyes before heading offshore, and keep a few fresh, unrigged ballyhoo in the cooler.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sailfish gobble goggle-eyes off Palm Beach but dine on ballyhoo in the Keys.
From Time Magazine Archive
And one a full-faced, flashed comedian—low— Showing his teeth, with nervous strain, With queer goggle-eyes striking like a blow, And causing quite a pain.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, December 3, 1887 by Various
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