Category: Billfish
When You Know You Obsess Too Much
How do you know when you obsess about fishing too much? Other than that angry look in your sig O’s eyes, maybe it starts like this: “I’ve been around fish and fishing my whole life, and having caught so many fish, the thrill started wearing off, so I started thinking of ways to bring back [...]
We Need To Break This Record Too
Can we get some records here fellas? We recently wrote about the “world’s biggest” fishing tourney, officially certified by the Guinness folks. It was a toothy-critter (walleye) tourney, and we have been assured that several bass derbies would beat that boat count hands down. Now I read about 382 sailfish being caught in the Stuart [...]
Weigh-In Pic: Find the Differences
Found an article about guys paying $10K to enter a billfish tourney in Cabo (just a tad more than an Elite Series event) and winning $254,905 by catching just two fish – though those two fish were 560- and 347-pound black marlin (sweet!). The story wasn’t real interesting, but my eyes kept returning to the [...]
Would You Pay for a Pro’s Fish?
Saw in a local paper that saltwater fish and crab sales have been soaring because they’ve been caught by “celeb” captains – like swordfish “caught” by Linda Greenlaw of Swords: Life on the Line fame (she doesn’t catch them herself and has trouble finding them without help) and Jonathan Hillstrand of Time Bandit Deadliest Catch [...]
Quick Updates: Mate Fined in Tourney Loss, Amendments
Due to the mind-numbing, puke-causing, overwhelming coverage of the elections yesterday, you may not have heard that voters in Tennessee, Arkansas and South Carolina overwhelmingly approved amendments to protect hunting and fishing as constitutional rights – except in Arizona. In Tennessee, 90 percent of voters supported the amendment, while similar measures received 89 and 82 [...]
The Million-Dollar Fishing License
This story should make Skeet Reese feel better (if misery loves company, that is). Here’s the gist : Team enters expensive fishing tournament. Team catches giant fish and wins $999,453. Tournament Director discovers one team mate fished without a license. Team watches $999,453 slip away!
