Orange Beach, AL – (Capt. Dave Lear) You Never Know! settled the score once and for all at the 2016 Blue Marlin Grand Championship by grabbing the lion’s share of the $1,463,250 purse. After bringing in an 806.8-pound blue marlin to The Wharf Marina and Entertainment Complex early Saturday evening, the team earned the Grand Champion title and a check…

Destin, FL (Capt. Dave Lear – Emerald Coast Blue Marlin Classic) LeBron James and the Cavaliers brought an NBA Championship home to Cleveland earlier this month. This past weekend, Rise Up, a Destin-based Viking 54, made a vertical leap of its own by scaling the largest blue marlin of the 14th annual Emerald Coast Blue Marlin Classic, earning the Grand…

Morehead City, NC (Big Rock) – The Ashley Lauren fishing team completed an improbable double victory Saturday, winning the 58th annual Big Rock Blue Marlin tournament just eight days after capturing the 19th annual Keli Wagner Lady Angler (KWLA) tournament, a single-day event that kicked off the larger six-day competition. Just as no golfer has ever won the Masters and…

March of 2016 was one of the finest if the not the finest month for large Swordfish worldwide in over 10-Years. In a good month, we may add 1-2 Swords to our 500+ Club. This March we added seven (7) over 500 lbs with our largest a 700 lbs beast on the Black Magic out of Tasmania.   Generally we…