Teamwork proved the ticket to success for Trinidad’s Jerome McQuilken, who with his team aboard the 50ft Viking, Vesper, won Best Boat with eight blue marlin releases at the 24th St. Lucia International Billfish Tournament. That’s not all! McQuilken caught seven of these blues to earn Top Angler. Plus, Vesper’s three times repeat win secured…
Finding the fish, having experienced crew to land the fish and enjoying a bit of good luck led Dieter Decker and his team aboard the 35ft Boston Whaler, Magic V, to successfully defend their champion title in the Caicos Classic IGFA Billfish Release Tournament. Magic V was one of seven boats that fished this 20th…
St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. Marlin madness will reach a fever pitch in the Virgin Islands August 23 to 30 for the 43rd USVI Open/Atlantic Blue Marlin Tournament (ABMT) and 3rd annual MarlinFest. These simultaneous events draw the best sports fishermen in the world, plus hundreds of blue marlin fans, ready for tight lines and…
The marlin were biting and the anglers were fighting at the International Cap Cana Billfish Shootout, held June 9th to 14th, out of Marina Cap Cana, in the Dominican Republic. The tussle came in getting lines fouled through the thick blanket of brown algae, or sargassum, which covered the waters off the southeast coast of…
St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. Making the most of every bite proved the key to success for the team aboard Wave Paver. Port Canaveral, Florida-based Jr. Davis, angler and owner of the 61’ Garlington, and his team released seven blue marlin in three days of fishing to earn Top Boat in the 52nd July Open…
Only time separated the top three boats in the highly-competitive St. Martin Billfish Tournament, presented by Delta Petroleum, and hosted out of Marigot, June 2nd to 6th. That’s because anglers aboard Stars, Habalo & Co and Blue Ocean were the first three boats out of the 25 total tournament fleet, to release two blue marlin…
St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. Wave Paver jumped into the lead at the 52nd July Open Billfish Tournament (JOBT), hosted by the Virgin Islands Game Fishing Club (VIGFC), with the release of four blue marlin in two days of competition. The Port Canaveral, Florida-based team aboard the 61’ Garlington released a trio of blues today,…
The fight, bite, sheer size and strength makes blue marlin so beloved. No other fish in the Caribbean has as many tournaments devoted to it.
CNN Travel named Klein Curaçao one of the ‘10 Top Caribbean Secrets’ in 2014 for its spectacular eight-mile-long soft sandy beach. Now, in the wake of the Curaçao Yacht Club’s (CYC) successful 49th International Blue Marlin Release Tournament (March 28-29) the cat is out of the bag about the great sports fishing in the waters…
Panama is known for offering some of the world’s best sport-fishing. In fact, the International Game Fishing Association has officially recognized over 50 World Records for Sailfish, Black, Blue and Striped Marlin caught in the coastal waters of this Central American country. Now, with a well-developed infrastructure in place, such as a World-Class Marina, it’s…
Hard work and attention to detail paid off for the team aboard Shoe, the Top Boat in the Casa de Campo International Blue Marlin Classic. Anglers aboard Shoe, the USA’s Don Schumacher’s 62-foot Spencer, released a total five blue marlin. Shoe was one of 17 boats from the Caribbean and USA that competed in this…
Abaco Beach Resort and Boat Harbour Marina has cast out the details for its 2015 sport fishing tournament season. Located at the heart of one of the top fishing destinations in the world, the resort has long played host to some of the most highly anticipated competitions in the region, and the upcoming season is…
Two months. Four tournaments. Twelve days of sports fishing. This is the Bahamas Billfish Championship (BBC), the oldest billfish tournament series in the world. Yet it came down to the final five minutes of fishing for the team aboard Wave Paver, Florida-based Jr Davis’ 61ft Garlington, to land the big win. In fact, Wave Paver’s…
Teamwork earned the anglers and crew aboard Magic V the Top Boat prize in the 19th Annual Caicos Classic IGFA Billfish Release Tournament. The event was hosted out of Blue Haven Marina and Resort, an Island Global Yachting (IGY) destination, in Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI), July 3rd-7th 2014. “It’s really important to work…
The 64th ‘Ernest Hemingway’ International Billfish Tournament, (EHIBFT) one of the oldest sport fishing events in the world, brought together 22 teams from the United States, Sweden, France, England, Italy, Canada, Mexico, Latvia, Spain, Russia and Cuba. During four days of fishing, from June 9th to 14th, 20 blue marlin and six white marlin were tagged and released. Finishing in…
The 17th St. Martin Billfish Tournament welcomed 27 teams including some of the best sports fishermen in the Caribbean. So it was a delightful surprise when relative newcomers to the sport walked away with a trio of the biggest prizes: Best Boat, Best Angler and Most Blue Marlin Releases. This was a true fish story…
St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. The number 13 proved lucky for the San Juan, Puerto Rico-based anglers and crew aboard the 56’ Viking, Reel Affair. This was the number of blue marlin over four days of fishing that earned owner/angler, Carlos Ramirez, and his team the Top Boat title in the 42nd USVI Open/Atlantic Blue…
St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. The bite stayed strong on the third day of competition in the 42nd USVI Open/Atlantic Blue Marlin Tournament (ABMT) and so did the performance of the team aboard Carlos Ramirez’ 56’ Viking, Reel Affair. The San Juan, Puerto Rico-based anglers and crew released three blue marlin by noon, taking away…
St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. There’s a reason the sport is called ‘fishing’ and not ‘catching’. The team of anglers and crew aboard the 68’ Paul Mann, Jichi, found this out the hard way. After releasing a near tournament record 7 blue marlin on the first day, they went fishless on the second day of…
St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. The bite proved red hot for the anglers and crew aboard the 68’ Paul Mann, Jichi. The Miami, Florida-based team released a whopping 7 blue marlin on the first day of fishing in the 42nd USVI Open Atlantic Blue Marlin Tournament (ABMT), to the lead the 22-boat fleet. “It was…