The Billfish Report is counting down its top 10 Billfisheries of the Year, and coming in at #9 is South Florida. Criteria for our top 10 include numbers, variety, and size of fish – and South Florida does not disappoint on any of these measures. Here are some notable aspects of South Florida’s billfishing in 2010… – There were marlin…
#10 – Galapagos The Billfish Report is counting down its top 10 Billfisheries of the Year, and coming in at #9 are the Galapagos. Criteria for our Top 10 include numbers, variety, and size of fish. Do you like Striped Marlin? How about big Striped Marlin? Do you like to catch 10+ a day? This is what the Galapagos are…
The Billfish Report is kicking off its second annual Billfisheries of the Year countdown. Though we report on notable billfish catches every day, this is our year-end pullup on which fisheries can boast the best numbers, size, and variety over the course of the entire year. Recall last year was a huge year for billfish around the world – and 2009’s top…
We have reached the top of the Billfish Report’s Top Billfisheries of 2009, and coming in at #1 is the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. The reef is a world-renowned fishery, inarguably amongst the world’s best year-in and year-out. Ask any international angler or captain and Australia will always be counted among the top billfisheries in the world. And whilst this…
The Billfish Report is counting down the top billfisheries of 2009 – and coming in at #2 is the Cape Verde Islands. The Cape Verde Islands – located in the East Atlantic off the coast of Africa, at about the same latitude as Senegal – are well known for their blue marlin. A year-round fishery (they caught a 300-pounder last…
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…
