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St. Augustine's Pelagic Fishing
On the Atlantic coast, just over an hour’s drive south of the Georgia-Florida border, sits a truly historic coastal gem: St. Augustine, Florida. Founded by the Spanish explorer Pedro Menéndez de Avilés...
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Planning An International Fishing Trip On Your Own Boat
I’d just muddled through my first year as a yacht broker when Gary Mabry and Charles Nail contacted me about buying a new sport-fisherman. The two recently retired gentlemen were looking to fish...
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Dreamin' On's Cape Verde Marlin Trip
After studying the charts, Capt. Randy Hodgekiss aboard Dreamin’ On, a 78-foot Garlington, found a particularly productive-looking seamount (and a nearby twin) that seemed like a good fishing spot....
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Samana Cay, Southern Bahamas
There he is!” — a simple yet exhilarating phrase — was called down from the bridge of Glory Days with surprising regularity. Blue marlin, white marlin, hatchet marlin, yellowfin tuna, dolphin and the...
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Island of Grandeur & Granders?
The quintessential Polynesian paradise, Samoa couples the exotic island experience with an almost untouched blue-water fishery. It just needs more anglers. I grew up surrounded by cold-water fish and...
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Puesta del Sol, Nicaragua
A large part of billfishing’s allure lies in the opportunity it gives you to travel to some of the world’s most exotic and beautiful locations. Puesta del Sol, located in a fairly remote region on...
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Coming Back to Cairns
As beautiful as the many places that I travel to for Marlin magazine are, there are very few of them that I would uproot my family for and consider calling home. Cairns, Australia, is one of those...
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Sport Fishing South Africa
Capt. Brad Philipps To my right, the first shafts of daylight spread across the bush as the sun climbed above the Lebombo Mountains. A slope-shouldered hyena shuffled toward his lair after an...
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Biloxi, Mississippi
Few destinations in the world can match the amenities and allure of Biloxi, Mississippi. Outstanding sport fishing for nearly every popular saltwater species and a host of entertainment options make...
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The Perfect Day
I’ve spent a lot of time during the last 50 years in, under and around the water, especially in South Florida and the Keys, but I’ve never experienced anything like the day I recently had in Isla...
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Fishing for Marlin in Hong Kong
(Hong Kong Tourism Board) Our memories of fishing Hong Kong waters date back to 1990, when we were first introduced to the inimitably festive Mandarin Sportfishing Club, a multinational group of avid...
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Return to Bom Bom
A revived marlin fishery that could very well be the hottest blue-marlin bite on the planet was just recently elevated to a whole new level. IGFA-certified Capt. Bert Bouchard got his 41-foot...
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Schoolboys Catch Big Blue on Day Off
On March 13, 2013 we didn’t have school here in Mauritius, so my brother and I decided to go out to check out a local FAD for some tuna. My brother Loïc Serret, was the captain, with myself and my four...
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Blue Marlin Madness in Cape Verde
For many years, I’d heard the stories of the incredible numbers of Atlantic blue marlin caught around the Cape Verde Islands off the west coast of Africa. About four years ago, I touched base with...
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Sport Fishing Adds $97 Million to Panama’s Economy
A report released today by The Billfish Foundation (TBF) reveals that sport fishing has been a major factor in attracting tourists to Panama providing a valuable fishing-based economic lift to the...
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Cape Verde Blue Marlin
It was a happy and excited group of students and Marlin U staff that came together in Mindelo, a fast-growing town on the Cape Verde island of São Vicente, for what we all hoped would be encounters...
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Black Marlin Fishing in Mozambique
A couple of years ago, while fishing in Ascension Island, my good mate Kevin Hodgson from Cape Town, South Africa, started telling me about his plans for building an “expedition” yacht to explore some...
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Fishing in Watamu, Kenya
The synergy of the situation could not have been more perfect if it had been choreographed from day one. Almost 20 years ago to the day, I fished Mambrui Ledge off Malindi, Kenya, aboard Snowgoose with...
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Hong Kong Anglers Reel in 500-Pound Pacific Blue Marlin
July 7, 2013 — A 3.6-metre-long, 226kg (498-pound) Pacific blue marlin reeled in by six amateur deep-sea anglers south of Hong Kong has been described as a "once-in-a-lifetime" catch by an expert. It...
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