THE QUIXOTIC CRUSADE

For Texan Chart Westcott, nothing but catching a blue marlin could have been more thought-provoking. For the past five or six years, every vacation he’d taken had turned into that quest, but even the best billfishing destinations—the Bahamas, Jamaica, the Florida Keys, Guatemala, and Cabo San Lucas and Riviera Nayarit, Mexico—couldn’t make his dream come true.

It was an obsession of sorts, ever since he was a kid. had inspired him as a child, just as it has for many big-game anglers. The seed was planted, he says, and he just couldn’t shake it.