A good day on the billfish calendar, as today witnessed the first day of the first of the Bisbee’s tournaments this year. And a big day it was for the Dreamweaver, catching a 581-pound black marlin. Here’s the calendar for Bisbee’s tournaments for this year…with the Black and Blue boasting the largest purse of any billfish tournament in the world……
Ocean City, MD – With the upcoming White Marlin Open we felt it only appropriate that we post some recent video of what has been a good season thus far. Our friends at the Florida Outdoor Network have 100% exclusive video content and this was just filmed over the last few days. The fact that they mentioned GranderWatch.com does not…
Flamingo, CR- We got some great video of a small black marlin caught on the Mr. Trigger. Capt. Jason is making a real effort to start tagging his fish. This is his first tagged black marlin. Congratulations Jason! (www.flamingo-fishing.com)
Madeira– There have been a few nice fish around lately, with Grander releasing a 750 lbs blue marlin and Katherine B just releasing a 850 lbs yesterday. Two more fish were caught yesterday and the bait is around. Should be a nice run for the boys on the rock. We mentioned a really nice fish a couple weeks ago that…
Press release as of yesterday… Bisbee’s tournaments this year will require circle hooks when fishing with natural bait. Studies have shown for some time that circle hooks improve survival rates of released billfish – so the Billfish Report applauds decisions like this one that speak to conservation of billfish. For more information on this announcement, go to http://www.bisbees.com/Local/news/2010/articles/2010-005_circle-hooks.htm.
Right now’s prime time for world billfishing – though some fisheries definitely have their better times of year, mid-summer in the Northern Hemisphere is a good common denominator for finding billfish in most places. But this summer’s been unsual in that regard – here’s a look at where’s hot, and where’s not, right now in billfishing…and to tell the truth,…
Flamingo, CR – Day 4 with Mr. Trigger Sportfishing (www.flamingo-fishing.com) The bite was on today, but we could not get the hooks to stick. 0-2 on Black Marlin, 0-1 on Sails and 0-1 on Striped Marlin. In case you are wondering, that would have been a Grand Slam. The Blacks came up on a double header.
Congratulations to the Happy Hooker, the first repeat winner of the Blue Marlin World Cup. Captained by Berno Niebuhr, the fish went 1,097 pounds and pretty much left the rest of the field in its wake. Angler was Chris Brand. Our best information has the standings as follows: Happy Hooker (Cape Verde) – 1,097 pounds Hedonist (Canaries) – 600 pounds…
