From April to May We will be targeting the famous Stripe Bass and Wreck fishing for Sea Bass/Cod we have had great results with these trips in the past. Also from May to September we will be targeting Fluke. From June to July We will be targeting Bluefin Tuna last year we had some great [...]
Blue Marlin Fishing
Lucky and Good: $1.4 Million Marlin
Being a superstitious lot, anglers often say they’d rather be lucky than good. For the first-time team aboard Frantic Pace, luck and skill both came into play today. Angler Dave Sanchez and his crew miraculously boated a 465-pound blue marlin during the second day of the 2012 Bisbee’s Black & Blue Marlin Tournament after an [...]
Yellow, Green and Blue
With one exception, yellow and green were the primary colors of the second and final day of fishing in the 2012 Los Cabos Offshore Charity Tournament. One boat after another backed up to the scales to offload big yellowfin tuna and dorado late Sunday afternoon. But it was Sneak Attack that got everything started when [...]
New Record Marlin Doesn’t Qualify in Hawaii, Fisherwoman Loses More Than $100,000
Imaging you’re battling the biggest marlin of your life for four hours. You’re covered in sweat, exhausted, weak, but there is more than $100,000 and a potential world record on the end of your line. The fish hasn’t surfaced in hours, and you have no idea when it might. Do you ask for help, potentially [...]
Bisbee’s East Cape Offshore Tournament: The Crescendo
First impressions are always important, so Team Tenacious definitely made a statement today after weighing the first tuna of the 2012 Bisbee’s East Cape Offshore Tournament. That fish registered 213 pounds on the nose and vaulted Eduardo Aripez and his crew instantly into first place in the division. No other tuna were weighed on the second day [...]
Celebrity Chef Emeril Lagasse Lands Wahoo at Florida Fishing Tournament
Maybe Emeril Lagasse will have to change his catchphrase from “Bam!” to “Wahoo!” Lagasse, a noted angler and perhaps the chef who makes the best blackened fish, was fishing the Emerald Coast Blue Marlin Classic out of the Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort near Destin, Florida on June 23 when he landed a 49.7-pound wahoo [...]
Record Blue Marlin Landed at Florida’s Emerald Coast Blue Marlin Classic
Big game fishing tournaments are often known for their head-turning catches, and this one was enough to gather quite the crowd at Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort on Saturday, June 23. While competing in the Emerald Coast Blue Marlin Classic near Destin, Florida, the anglers aboard Done Deal had a spectacular tournament, and landed this 783.6-pound blue marlin. [...]
Woman Lands Record Striped Marlin to Win Hawaiian Tournament
Since 1983, when they first started keeping stats, no female angler has landed a striped marlin as big as this in Hawaii. And not only did this 170.3-pound fish land Wendy Rose the new record, but also won her the Spring Wahine Tournament. Fishing with Capt. Bob Schnoor and crew James Blanton, the pole bent down and [...]
A Classic Finish
By Capt. Dave Lear June 10, 2012, Biloxi, Mississippi: Another Mississippi Gulf Coast Billfish Classic is in the books and this year’s edition again proved why this tournament is one of the top contests on the big-game fishing circuit. Twenty-three boats among the 60-boat field claimed a share of the $1.1 million in total prize [...]
