A Billfish Royal Slam is for most a lifetime sports fishing achievement. Julie Crispin, of Stuart, Florida, has set out to accomplish the International Game Fishing Association (IGFA) recognized feat of catching, tagging and releasing nine specific billfish species in 12 ...
South Florida is truly a world class fishing destination with a plethora of charter captains available who can get you hooked up with a wide variety of exciting fish. Any of these captains can create a memorable fishing excursion but ...
A group of concerned sports fishermen united three decades ago over an alarming revelation. While boats were bigger, technology better and tackle trailblazing in its design, they were catching fewer and fewer billfish. One among them, Winthrop ‘Win’ Rockefeller, had the ...
In a classic tale of everything going perfectly, a lady angler looking for her first ever swordfish was able to complete the feat on her very first try. Heather Leman of Charleston dared to take her 23-foot boat, Miss Behavior, ...
The catch of a 560-pound swordfish less than a mile north of Christiansted, St. Croix, has put the territory on the map as a potentially great recreational fishery for this species too. ...
One hundred and ninety billion pounds of fish; 190,000,000,000 pounds…a number so large as to be virtually incomprehensible yet, according to recent statistics, one hundred and ninety billion pounds of fish are taken from our seas each year, mainly by ...