Hanter island is one of the few hyper-friendly fishing spots on the east coast. It only takes a few minutes by tugboat to get to the island, but the experience can last a lifetime. It is one of only two islands situated to provide access to the largest game fish. Hanter has two main attractions: “dive” fishing, and the pier. Diving for hypers is more like an underwater walk, since the equipment to allow them to swim would be cumbersome and inflexible. Traditionally, divers would use spear guns to fish while submerged, but hypers usually opt for more… manual methods. Because of their immense strength, the water offers relatively less resistance, allowing them to reach out and grab fish as they passed by. Some have taken this as an opportunity to pick fights with the larger aquatic inhabitants, as is commemorated by the yearly Great White Wrestling Tournament. (hint: the Great Whites haven’t won once.) The fishing pier juts out by a half mile, and is the only pier in the northern hemisphere rated to withstand not only the weight of 40 large-class hypers, but also the stresses they’d incur while fishing. Essentially a solid block of metal and concrete, the largest fish recorded have been caught at the Hanter pier. Roughly once a quarter, a lucky hyper will reel in a whale or two, but run-ins with activists have caused the Hanter supervisors to implement a catch-and-release (honestly, more like a catch-and-throw-two-miles) policy for certain species of sea creatures.

-loW

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