Mark your calendar for the fifth annual Sailfish Bowl Fishing Tournament at Marina Casa de Campo, Dominican Republic, from February 6–8, 2025. Compete for the prestigious title of Grand Champion in one of the Caribbean’s top sportfishing events!
Smaller yet just as spectacular is a great way to describe the 2018 St. Martin Billfish Tournament, presented by Delta Petroleum. Nine boats, carrying sportfishing teams from St. Martin, St. Croix, Antigua and Trinidad cast off in the two-day tournament fished out of Marina Fort Louis, in Marigot, 22-23 June 2018. By lines out on…
The third day proved a charm for the anglers and crew aboard Legacy. The Bajan-based team fishing on the 30-foot Pacemaker earned the Champion Boat title in the Barbados International Tournament, held April 3 to 7, out of Port St. Charles. It wasn’t easy. After all, the Legacy fishermen, with local charter captain Jono Jones…
The spectacular catch and release of two blue marlin and four white marlin on the third and final day of fishing in the 23rd International Billfish Shootout in Cap Cana, Dominican Republic, is the come-from-behind feat which earned the sport fishermen aboard Casca Dura the Top Boat Prize. In total, the 72ft Merritt’s Brazilian-based team…
Three is certainly a lucky number for Sir Charles Williams, who with fellow anglers and crew aboard his 54ft Bertram, Never Enough, competed in the Barbados Game Fishing Association’s International Tournament, held April 19 – 23. The *Bim-based team, which had three generations of the Williams family aboard, enjoyed a successful triple-header with a hook-up…
A new teaser system spelled success for the sport fisherman aboard the Bertram 31, Hard Play II. The Tobago-based team earned Top Boat at the 48th Budget Marine Spice Island Billfish Tournament, held January 21st to 25th out of the Grenada Yacht Club in St. George’s, with the release of nine billfish, five sailfish and four…
The release of nine billfish earned Club Nautico de Santo Domingo the top team prize at the 76th International Light Tackle Tournament Association (ILTTA) Competition, hosted November 16-21, out of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Champion team members Wally Heinsen and Carolina Mederos each released four billfish, while another catch by third team member, Raúl Rizek,…
The sports fishing was slamming good at the Presidential Aruba Caribbean Cup, presented by the Aruba Airport Authority and hosted out of the Varadero Aruba Marina & Boatyard in Oranjestad. In fact, a first day Grand Slam – the catch of a blue marlin, white marlin and sailfish in one day, aided the team aboard…
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 months. This has meant touring the world in search of Pacific blue marlin, black marlin,…
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…
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…
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 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…
Anglers competing for big fish and big prize money in Extreme Kayak Fishing’s two-day Battle in the Bahamas offshore tournament got more than they bargained for. On April 25, fishermen from Florida, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Virginia raced their kayaks through calm turquoise waters off Freeport, Grand Bahamas, in search of the big catch. Joe…
St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. A blue marlin release within minutes of lines out earned the team aboard Indigo, a 61-foot Buddy Davis that is part of the local Ocean Surfari Charter fleet, the Top Boat in the 51st July Open Billfish Tournament (JOBT), hosted July 9 to 11 by the Virgin Islands Game Fishing…
Fishing all four tournaments of the 40th Bahamas Billfish Championship (BBC) proved a charm for Avon Park, Florida-based Cruiser Crews, owner/angler of the 61-Viking, Cowpoke, and his champion team. Though Crews and his wife Christy have fished one of the series tournaments since 2002 and won the Treasure Cay event last year, it was the…
The bite was hot and so was the competition at the International Billfish Shootout. This 16th annual event was held out of its new home in Cap Cana, Dominican Republic.