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Bob Rich shows the hole a marlin made while he reeled it in.
By Pete Johnson, special to OutdoorChannel.com
Fishing isn’t generally considered a dangerous sport, but businessman and book author Bob Rich, Jr., found out how risky a major fish fight with a black marlin can be as he came within inches of being speared by an 1,100-pound charging billfish.
Rich -- an entrepreneur, frozen foods magnate and sports teams owner who has written four books on fishing, sports and motivation -- was competing in the weeklong 25th Lizard Island Black Marlin Classic, an annual tag-and-release tournament off Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
A self-proclaimed fishing fanatic of all fish species who is annually...