Where the Billfish are in late February

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…

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Brazil Blue Marlin Part II

Brazil Blue Marlin Part II

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…

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First Grander of 2010?

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…

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Brazil's Blue Marlin

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…

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Who says you have to go offshore for marlin?

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…

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Ascension Blues

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…

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Billfishing Report – Week of February 8

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…

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Blues already off North Carolina!

Hatteras, NC – In one of our earliest reports of blues ever off NC, Hatteras has seen its first blue of the season already, caught two weeks ago on the Judy Lynn.  This is our first report of a blue marlin off the US East Coast this year.  Here’s some of the information on the fish. Capt. Art Lodge – Location…

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