fight·ing chair

(fī′tĭng)

A chair that usually can swivel and rock or be positioned at an angle and is equipped with a footrest and rod holders for use on a boat when landing a large fish.

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fighting chair - a fixed chair from which a saltwater angler can fight a hooked fish

chair - a seat for one person, with a support for the back; "he put his coat over the back of the chair and sat down"

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"We don't use a fighting chair. It's all stand-up fishing with light tackle--30-pound line with 60-pound leader."

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Replace the fighting chair in your boat with a rowing machine.

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The Old Man and the Sea was how I saw it panning out - far out in the ocean, strapped into a fighting chair wrestling a gigantic marlin on the end of my line.

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The Algarve boasts a selection of water parks, while deep-sea game fishing has become a well-established favourite with a fleet of Florida-style "fighting chair" boats operating out of the port of Lagos.

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Braced in a fighting chair, our older son, Cullen, lands a 79-pound sailfish that leaps on the screen, providing a virtual fight real enough to tire small forearms.

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All you really need is a measurement and a photograph or two; and Nutter will faithfully reproduce that glorious fish you caught one day wading in Big Pass, or sitting in a teak fighting chair 125 miles offshore.

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Thomasville's "Pilar Fighting Chair," named for Ernest Hemingway's boat, serves as kitchen stool or barstool and replicates a fishing-boat chair used by the author.

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About 15 minutes later, Nate and I were standing behind the fighting chair and talking.

The Kona Project: Never let that chance get away

After hooking the bull shark the Captain told Ramsay to sit in the "fighting chair" - where he toiled for an hour to reel it in.

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On a game-fishing boat like the Hula Girl, it is properly called the fighting chair. Our crew dubbed it the torture chair.

One-on-one with Big Island game fish

Rosher is going to figure out how to catch these fish, rig up a fighting chair on the bow of the Miss Brittto be able chase them down, too.

Bluefin, the long game: can the great big-game fishing at Cat Cay survive the 21st Century?