The Billfish Report is counting down the top billfisheries of 2009 – and coming in at #3 is St. Thomas. The blue marlin season – the highlight of the St. Thomas fishing calendar – runs from May through October.  What’s unique about this fishery is bite’s correlation to moon phase: no other billfishery on earth sees such connection between the…

The Billfish Report is counting down the Top Billfisheries of 2009 – and coming in at #4 is Madeira. Madeira is a blue marlin fishery known for extremes. It can have extraordinary fishing with obscene numbers of large blue marlin, and it can have seasons that leave a lot of captains empty handed. As one of the northernmost blue marlin…

The Billfish Report is counting down the top billfisheries of 2009 – and coming in at #5 is Kona. Kona’s widely considered to be one of the best, if not the best, billfishery on the planet.  Nowhere else can you catch a grander marlin any month of the year.  It is the best fishery in the Pacific for blue marlin. …

The Billfish Report is counting down the top billfisheries of 2009 – and coming in at #6 is Panama. There’s no fishery in earth that’s better named than Panama – it literally means “place of abundant fish.”  And if there’s one overriding characteristic of Panama, it is precisely that: waters teeming with life, and plenty of billfish feeding on it.  …

The Billfish Report is counting down the Top Billfisheries of 2009 – and coming in at #7 is the US East Coast. We define the US East Coast as far north as the Canyons off New Jersey and as far south as North Carolina’s Outer Banks.  Given that the migration patterns of so many of the billfish seen on the…

The Billfish Report is counting down the Top Billfisheries of 2009 – and coming in at #8 is Guatemala. Obscene.  That’s the only word to describe the fishing in Guatemala, year after year.  The obscenity is in the sheer numbers of sailfish – without a doubt the best place on the planet to catch Pacific sails, and huge numbers of…

The Billfish Report is counting down the top billfisheries of 2009 – and coming in at #9 is the Canary Islands. Geographically, the Canaries share the same area of water as Madeira, which also had a tremendous 2009.  Located off the northwest corner of Africa, the Canaries typically have a consistent summer bite on three species of billfish: blue marlin,…

The Billfish Report is counting down the top billfisheries of 2009 – and coming in at #10 is Costa Rica. Costa Rica is well-known for its mixed bag of billfish – one can see Pacific sailfish, blue marlin, and black marlin on almost any day of the year…with some occasional appearances of striped marlin.   Typically the best months for marlin…