When it comes to fishing in Islamorada, Fla., the name Bud-N-Mary’s comes straight to mind, as does amazing big game fishing. And April 25, 2012 now marks the best single day for sailfish ever for Bud-N-Mary’s. According to Saltwater Sportsman, with conditions ideal, Capt. Scott Stanczyk caught, tagged, and released 47 sailfish in one day, besting [...]
Sailfish Fishing
Sandman Defends World Sailfish Championship, Rides Record Performance to $316,917.50 Prize
If there is anything better than battling sailfish for a weekend, it’s winning more than a quarter million dollars while doing it. For the second year, the crew aboard Sandman took home top honors at the World Sailfish Championship in Key West, Fla. This year, the helped set an opening day record, taking the lead [...]
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World’s Richest Sailfish Tournament has Record Day in Key West
Last year, more than $1 million was paid out to anglers fishing the the World Sailfish Championship in Key West, and it looks like the competition for these big purses will be tight this year. After just the first day, there has already been a tournament record set, with the 53 participating boats landing a [...]
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Lady pamela 2 Sportfishing Charters
March 9, 2012 Today was very fun day fishing with Jeff Neal, and friend Brian. I recently met these great guys out at the Safari Club International convention in Las Vegas. Jeff is a world renowned hunter and outfitter who books some of the best hunts in the world. He’s been organizing quality big game [...]
Sebastian Offshore 03/03/12 ***Dolphin***
Had a charter this morning. The customers were looking for sailfish. Left dock @ 7AM and hit Bethel for some bait, got one blue runner after about 15min but decided to leave after seeing nothing of particular interest on the sonar around the buoy. Headed east with a six rod spread pulling 4 skirted ballyhoo [...]
Jose Wejebe and Nat Geo Wild film sailfish feeding frenzy
The show airs tonight at 10 p.m. eastern on the National Geographic channel and judging from this trailer the filming is pretty amazing. They are chasing sailfish that herd and attack giant bait balls. The underwater filming is amazing. We wrote earlier about this work in another post, which you can see here.
Action Packed day of fishing aboard Hooked Up Sportfishing – Captain Taco – Fort Lauderdale Florida
Shark Fishing Fort Lauderdale aboard the Hooked Up with the guys from North Dakota February 10th, 2012 Once again Shark fishing pays off for the Hooked Up off the coast of Fort Lauderdale! Today we had Mike, Paul, Chad, Greg, John and Chris all from North Dakota out for a few hours off deep-sea fishing. [...]
Sailfish attack a bait ball like a pack of wolves
National Geographic recently posted a video online, Saifish Frenzy, which taught me more about sailfish in two-and-a-half minutes than I thought possible. They are called wolves of the sea because they hunt in packs. They herd bait into a tighter and tighter ball. While some fish herd, the others plunge into the ball and slash [...]
Best of GoFISHn: Early February 2011
GoFISHn's Atlantic striped bass fishery survey. We had 199 responses to our survey, which asked Atlantic striped bass anglers whether they believe the striped bass fishery is in decline. Some 65% said "yes," which is pretty alarming. To see the details, click here. New California black bass record A 13-year-old breaks California's black bass record with [...]
More Sail fishing off the coast of Fort Lauderdale 877.SEA.4344
Fun Fishing Fort Lauderdale with Zach, Dana and Greg January 20th, 2012 Fun Fishing in Fort Lauderdale Today we had shared charter with Greg from Charlotte North Carolina and Dana and her son Zach from Pittsburg. We started out with both kites flying with 4 live baits suspended from them. Ok the trap was set [...]
