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White Marlin Open Tournament Journal, Pre-Trip 1
I’m starting to get excited. I just made definitive reservations to fish the 40th Annual White Marlin Open — one of the world’s largest billfish tournaments — with the Contender Boats Team, August 5-9...
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White Marlin Open Journal, Day 1
I arrived in Ocean City Sunday afternoon prepped for an all-out assault on the marlin and tuna. But I file this now from a local Starbucks Monday morning: The first day of fishing for the 40th Annual...
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White Marlin Open Journal, Day 2
The good news: We fished! The bad news: The fish didn’t cooperate. That can be the nature of bigeye tuna fishing — feast or famine. Team Contender started its first day in the White Marlin Open at 6...
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White Marlin Open Journal, Day 3
Today, Team Contender targeted white marlin rather than tuna. This is, after all, the White Marlin Open we are fishing. We pulled ballyhoo along the edge of the Wilmington Canyon. We had three hits....
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White Marlin Open Journal, Day 4
"Committee boat, committee boat... This is boat 179.... We'd like to weigh in a skunk." Hey, if you can't laugh at yourself, you know others will, right?Day three of fishing the White Marlin Open, and...
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White Marlin Open Journal, Awards
While many of the 262 teams that fished this past week’s 40th Annual White Marlin Open out of Ocean City, Maryland, went home with a week full of great memories, a cadre of others attended the event’s...
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Adrenaline Rush!
(Be sure to click through all the images in the gallery above.)While there might be better ways to hook the really huge yellowfin tuna — as in 300-plus pounds — that patrol the eastern Pacific, I don’t...
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Costa Rica Fishing Lodge Welcomes New Contender Center-Console
Zancudo Lodge in Golfito, Costa Rica, has brought to its docks a new Contender 32ST. The center-console features twin Yamaha F300 outboards, new Raymarine electronics including Super HD radar for...
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Charlotte Harbor Snook on the Rebound
Florida’s Charlotte Harbor region in the southwest corner of the state features lush sea grasses, pearly white beaches and usually calm sea conditions. At the mouth of the harbor, Boca Grande Pass...
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Virginia Anglers Dig Deep for Big Black Sea Bass
(Be sure to click through all the images in the gallery above.)When you’re 50 miles off Virginia Beach in the middle of winter, you hope the sea bass will be biting — otherwise, you’re in for a long,...
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Crashing Bluefin Tuna on the Cape
(Be sure to click through all the images in the gallery above.)That first, pretty September day hunting bluefins off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, started slowly, as we jigged the shipping lanes near...
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Video: Get to Know Mississippi's Fisheries
At this year's boat show, Mississippi Tourism and the Mississippi Gulf Coast Billfish Classic threw a party to spotlight the exceptional tournaments and fishing opportunities in the Magnolia State....
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Chasing Florida Keys Sharks in Shallow Water
(Photos courtesy of Capt. Jim Willcox. Be sure to click through all the images in the gallery above.)Shark fishing seems to be a black-or-white issue: Anglers either love sharks and all things sharky...
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Fishing for Tarpon and Snook in Puerto Rico's Urban Estuaries
(Be sure to click through all the images in the gallery above.)Just after cruising past the end of the always busy runway at San Juan’s international airport and passing under a couple of noisy...
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