Showdowns with shallow-water sharks, battling jungle monsters, reeling titanic tuna with barracuda teeth and wrestling powerful titans of the deep. Whether it’s for science, sport or food, monster fish are Hooked’s most extreme encounters.
跟淺水鯊魚攤牌、與叢林怪獸搏鬥、收服嘴掛梭魚牙的大鮪魚，並和有力的深水巨獸角力。不管是為了科學、運動還是食物，我們最終要面對的是怪獸魚。
They are colossal underwater goliaths that grow to a fantastic size and swim with astounding speed. When these leviathans move in, other fish move away. And just when we think we’ve seen the biggest there is, another monster fish blows it out of the water. To those who encounter them face to face, they are extraordinary, the ultimate challenges of man versus beast.
龐然的水下巨獸不但體型奇大無比，游泳速度也很驚人。這些龐然大魚一進場，其他魚類紛紛走避。就在我們以為看到了最大的魚時，又有怪獸魚躍出水面。對於遇上牠們的人來說，這些魚不同凡響，這是人類對抗野獸的終極挑戰。
Among the world’s wildest whoppers, these tough predators combine traits of three monster species into one. The dogtooth tuna are born with bodies like tuna, have mouths like barracuda and can kill like sharks. There is one asset to growing huge — these reef-dwelling behemoths have jaws out of a horror movie. But despite their strong tuna-resemblance, dogtooth tuna are actually fierce bonitos. Unlike most tuna who have smaller-sized teeth, dogtooth sport a mouthful of more than fifty serrated weapons. They even have additional teeth on the surface of their tongues and can slice into prey like sharks.
在世上最野生的巨魚中，這種強悍的掠食動物集三種怪獸於一身。「裸鰆」的身體像鮪魚，卻有張梭魚般的嘴，獵食起來又像鯊魚。長得很大有個好處，這些住在礁石的龐然大物都有張出自恐怖電影的嘴。儘管和鮪魚極為神似，但牠其實是凶猛的鰹魚。不同於牙齒小的多數鮪魚，牠嘴裡有超過五十個鋸齒武器，甚至連舌頭表面也長牙齒。牠跟鯊魚一樣會把獵物撕咬得稀巴爛。
And dogtooth continue to break the typical tuna mold. Unlike their tuna cousins, dogtooth are unable to keep their body temperatures warmer than the water around them so they keep to tropical regions. But these cold-blooded fish are no pushovers. Unlike many tuna, who swim in protective schools and avoid apex predators, these lone hunters will actually swim with sharks. Experienced anglers know that dogtooth may be easy to meet in shallow waters, but their super size and terrorizing teeth make them one of the toughest fish to conquer.
而裸鰆繼續打破鮪魚典型。不同於表親鮪魚的是，牠們的體溫低於周圍水溫，因此只能生活在熱帶地區。但這種冷血魚可不好欺負，不同於許多鮪魚會成群求保護、躲避頂級掠食動物，這些孤獨獵人卻是和鯊魚同游。老練的釣客都知道，想在淺水區遇上裸鰆或許不難，但其超大體型和駭人牙齒，讓征服任務難上加難。
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