A last minute catch landed Pescador the Top Boat prize in the 43rd annual USVI Open/Atlantic Blue Marlin Tournament (ABMT). The team, led by Stephen Deckoff, Sr., the St. John, USVI-based owner/angler of the 60ft Rybovich, scored five blue marlin releases in the two-day tournament. The team’s final fish, caught by Deckoff’s 16-year-old son, John, kept fighting…
St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. A last minute catch landed Pescador the Top Boat prize in the 43rd annual USVI Open/Atlantic Blue Marlin Tournament (ABMT). The team, led by Stephen Deckoff, Sr., the St. John, USVI-based owner/angler of the 60-foot Rybovich, scored five blue marlin releases in the two-day tournament. The team’s final fish, caught…
St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. The right place at the right time paid off for the sports fishermen aboard the 58-foot Merritt, Never Say Never. The team, led by owner/angler Jim Carr from Coral Gables, Florida, were the first to release three blue marlin during the first day of fishing in the 43rd annual USVI…
St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. The blue marlin buzz ran hot on the docks last night in the wake of Tropical Storm Erika as nine boats registered to fish an abbreviated two-day 43rd USVI Open/Atlantic Blue Marlin Tournament (ABMT). What’s more, two boats signed up for the first-ever MarlinFest Wet & Wild Center Console Tournament,…
St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. The 43rd USVI Open/Atlantic Blue Marlin Tournament (ABMT) and 3rd annual MarlinFest takes place this week, albeit in a shortened format due to Tropical Storm Erika. “We sat down with the captain’s right after the 5 p.m. forecast on Tuesday. The decision was made to hold a two-day tournament, Saturday…
The most popular fishing tournament in the southern Caribbean just got even more attractive with a record US$40,000 prize for the first person to catch a Blue Marlin over 1,000 pounds
