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The team competed without a fighting chair, a stern-end staple for elite participants who maximize the leverage and support the chair provides.

Tag-a-Giant had been fishing for a couple days, and many people had sat in the fighting chair I now occupied, reeling in tuna after tuna.

Sitting in the huge fighting chair with the huge rod and reel, in the well of the huge sportfishing vessel, it was inescapably apparent who had the edge.