About half way down the east coast of the Baja Peninsula, nestled along Danzante Bay and the cerulean waters of the Sea of Cortez, you’ll find the The Villa del Palmar at the Islands of Loreto, a luxury resort of the highest-caliber. Its stately rooms and gorgeous grounds make the resort a remarkable family vacation […]
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The 12th annual Emerald Coast Blue Marlin Classic, presented by Mojo Sportswear Company and ORCA Coolers, took place June 18-22 at the Sandestin® Golf and Beach Resort, located in Florida’s scenic Panhandle region. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. And Team Reel Worthless is red-hot right now after winning big in its third major Gulf tournament […]
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It’s that time of year. North Carolina offshore and inshore waters are abundant with fish and the fish are doing those things that make fishing North Carolina part of the lore and legend. Offshore, the Gulf Stream is serving up billfish. We’re hearing reports of steady catches of sailfish, white marlin, and blue marlin. The […]
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It was 58 years ago today that Alfred Glassell Jr. appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated with a massive black marlin taken off of Cabo Blanco, Peru. On August 7, 1953, Glassell earned a place in fishing history and lore by boating a 14-foot, 7-inch, 1,560 pound black marlin. The fish would be recognized […]
To follow up on yesterday’s post about the man in the Maldives who caught a “marlin” by hand, we now have video! The video seems to confirm our point about the story yesterday that the fish is not a marlin, as originally reported, nor a sailfish, as some news outlets (and the video below) posted […]
Paradise Outfitters of Venice, Louisiana has just posted an incredible, bad-ass, head-bangin, adrenaline-pumping, drool-inducing, and jealousy-making video of some great Gulf of Mexico marlin Fishing. The video is embedded below and available on YouTube. We can’t stop watching it. We want to hang with these guys. FISH ON!
Leg I of the first annual Los Sueños Signature Triple Crown was held January 22-25 on Costa Rica’s central Pacific coast, and the three days of fishing turned out to be an epic, record setting event. Over the three days, 42 teams released on average more than 50 fish per team, including a combined total of […]
The marlin bite is on off east central Australia. Ideal weather and warm waters over the last few days have brought marlin and anglers to the Coral Sea off of Coffs Coast. Numerous marlin catches are being reported throughout the area. This great video from a few days ago shows just how good the marlin […]
The 30th Golden Lure Fishing Tournament kicked off in waters off Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia today. The tournament is hosted by the Port Macquarie Game Fishing Club and based at the Port Macquarie Marina. 31 boats competed on the first day with 146 anglers participating. Tournament officials reported numerous marlin being tagged and resealed throughout […]
The 4th Jardines del Rey “Big Game Trolling” International Fishing Tournament will run next week from Monday, October 14, 2103 through Saturday, October 19, 2013. The tournament, which runs out of the Marina Internacional Cayo Guillemo, Cuba, attracts professional and amateur anglers from Canada, the United Kingdom, Argentina, Russia, Poland, and Cuba. Anglers will target marlin, wahoo, […]
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Donnell Tate of the Lahaina News in Lahaina Maui, Hawaii has posted a great story about about 14-year-old Hunter Smith landing a 421.5 blue marlin. The fish is the second largest taken this year by the Lahaina fleet. Smith was fishing with his dad Allen Smith and Captains Dan Shaffer and Rich Lynn aboard the […]
A few days ago photojournalist Alistair McGlashan was marlin fishing in Australia when he and his crew brought a nice blue marlin to the boat. McGlashan jumped into photograph the blue when a 660-pound mako came swimming by and started feeding on the marlin. Check out McGlashan’s Youtube video linked above and posted on YouTube […]
The 2013 Drambuie Key West Marlin Tournament is scheduled for July 17-20. The tournament will coincide with the 33rd annual Hemingway Days festival in Key West. This year the tournament features $50,000 in guaranteed cash prizes. The tournament will be limited to the first 75 boats to register, so you might want to link over […]
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The Trinidad Guardian is reporting that Angler Brendan Bernard broke the Southern Caribbean Billfish Circuit (SCBC) marlin record today with a 1,005.9lb marlin. Bernard was fishing aboard the Predator in the Tobago International Game Fishing Tournament. Last year, Bernard, won the T&T Game Fishing Association’s Wahoo Tournament with a 75.5 pound wahoo. Bernard and the […]
Roffer’s Ocean Fishing Forecasting Service, Inc (ROFFS) has posted a discussion and two videos depicting infrared satellite images from May 6- may 7, 2013 of the Bahamas. The videos show warm water being pulled northeastward away from Cat Island and some being pulled westward toward the Great Abaco Canyon. This warmer water brings blue marlin […]
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The National Marine Fisheries Service will host a public webinar and conference call on May 15, 2013 to address the Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Recreational Fishing Plan which had initially been introduced in December, 2011. the plan addresses Atlantic tunas, sharks, billfish, and swordfish. The webinar is scheduled from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m and […]
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Ed Dwyer’s 2013 Otherside Invitational will be held next week April 26-28. Boats from Port Canaveral will have from 6:00am (lines in) to 9:00 pm (lines out) to find their fish and return to dock. Anglers will be targeting Yellowfin tuna, dolphin, wahoo, skip jack tuna, and four categories of billfish: blue marlin, white marlin, […]
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