(Hong Kong Tourism Board) Our memories of fishing Hong Kong waters date back to 1990, when we were first introduced to the inimitably festive Mandarin Sportfishing Club, a multinational group of avid anglers (Australians, Americans, Chinese, English) living in what was then still a British colonial outpost precariously perched at the southern edge of an economically emerging China. Two years later, we traveled to Hong Kong again to join that intrepid group of pioneering fishermen on one of their early exploratory tournament forays into the typhoon-ridden South China Sea, off Pratas Reef. Two hundred miles southeast of Hong Kong, Pratas was — and still is — a hotly contested, though uninhabited, group of shipwreck-strewn atolls, held by Taiwan but also claimed by China and Vietnam. In that instance, though the ...![Marlin]()
