If the Casa de Campo International Blue Marlin Classic, fished March 17 to 20 out of Marina Casa de Campo, La Romana, Dominican Republic, was a horse race, no one would have bet on what turned out to be the top boat and angler winners. It definitely looked like a longshot for the Venezuelan-based team…
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…
The scoreboard on the first day of fishing in the 20th International Cap Cana Billfish Shootout showed a surprising entry: a release credited to Scott Leon, captain of Sandman, a 63ft Spencer owned by Florida’s Sandra MacMillan. It’s anglers, not captains, who get credited with billfish release points. Yet Leon received his ‘points’ as a…
Move over Hawaii, Bermuda and even St. Thomas. The Dominican Republic is the new hot spot for some of the best billfishing in the world. Consider that eighteen boats released a total of 132 billfish – 14 blue marlin, 116 white marlin and two sailfish – in three days of fishing in the 2013 International…
The International Cap Cana Shootout attracts some of the best sports fishermen in the world. In turn, this elite group is proving just how fantastic the billfish fishery is off the Dominican Republic’s eastern shores, especially in early June. To underscore this fact, eighteen boats from the southern U.S. and Caribbean released an astounding total…
They don’t have passports or visas. They don’t clear customs and immigration. Yet they are welcomed like royalty and Hollywood celebrities everywhere they visit. In fact, there is hardly an island in the Caribbean that doesn’t pay homage to the blue marlin and its fellow billfish by way of hosting a sport fishing tournament. Here…
The east coast of the Dominican Republic is earning a reputation for a hot marlin bite in the late spring. This year’s Fishing Lodge International Cap Cana Billfish Shootout, held May 17th – 22nd, certainly reinforced this status when the 17 boat fleet released 106 whites, 17 blues and a sailfish in three days of…
NOTE: For the 2013 Fishing Tournaments, check it out here: https://www.allatsea.net/caribbean-big-sport-fishing-tournament-2013/ The annual migration of billfish and gamefish along the Caribbean island chain makes for great fishing year-round. Even more fun are the tournaments that combine fantastic fishing with nightly dock parties and prizes that span from spiffy trophies to luxury gifts, cash and of course…
Make it two in a row for Florida angler, Gray Ingram, who won the Dominican Republic International Cap Cana Billfish Shootout on his own boat, the Big OH, last year.