One look at the reports and one would think all that’s being caught these days are huge numbers of sailfish and striped marlin. But there still have been a fair few big girls caught thus far. The world’s highlights this year so far, by billfishery… Ascension Island – 950 blue, 900 blue, 700 blue, 600 blue Panama – 800 black,…
Malindi, Kenya – It should come as no surprise that a Billfish Grand Slam was accomplished in Keyna, but this time on fly! As if it was not challenging enough to get three species in one day, angler Con Jooste added the element of doing it with a fly rod. What made this even more impressive is that one of…
So where are the Billfish showing up these days? Well, for starters Ascension Island is heating up – seeing fish as large as 950 this last week, with some consistent size on fish in the spread. Cabo San Lucas is really not replicating the great February/March striped marlin bite from the last three years – the bills are scarce these…
Canavieiras, Brazil – Capt. Shawn Wallace said fishing was picking up and he was right. After picking up a couple nice 600+ plus fish last week, Shawn has produced again. While fishing on Carmague, they Raised 7, hag 6 Bites and released a 500 and a 700 lber. The other fish they saw were all big, going anywhere from 300…
Ascension Island – We do not want to say, we told you so, but we did. It appears we may have had the first Grander Blue Marlin of 2010, caught by the Harmattan with Capt. Matthias Henningsen. She ate a Fox Lure that is apparently a home made lure. I guess it worked! They released her boat side after she…
Canavieiras, Brazil – Fishing this season on the Royal Charlotte Bank did not measure up to years past. For a famed area and for that matter, country, Brazil’s fertile waters have not measured up. Cabo Frio, which brought us the current All-Tackle world record blue marlin produced so few fish this year, we barely covered the tournaments. The water temp…
Two incredible stories from the last week on marlin – both seeing marlin caught INSHORE. The first comes from Australia. One REALLY lost marlin apparently had two encounters with people inshore. The first time was right off the Capricorn Coast in Australia, with some really surprised anglers fighting a marlin and losing it alongside the boat…and then again, this time…
Ascension Island – The little known island in the middle of the South Atlantic has produced some big blue marlin with a 1,200 caught a few years back. This is one of the places where if you are looking for the All Tackle record, you might want to stop by. The boys that are going to do it are on…
A quick update on where the fish are and are not right now in the world of billfishing… Cabo San Lucas is seeing a decent striped marlin bite (finally). Boats seeing 2/3 a day. In Guatemala we’re getting reports of boats raising 20-40 sails a day, on a consistent basis. This being their season, the fishing has been tremendous thus…
