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…

Guatemala – It just simply can’t be ignored any further. Report after report, now late into the season, is pointing towards one of the finest on record. Like any ranking, be it sport or otherwise, calling something the “best ever” can be a bold statement. In fishing we seem to want to do it all the time. Fact is, there…