Marlin

That’s how fishing legend Mark Sosin summed up the IGFA’s Tommy Gifford Award. Named for one of the sport’s greatest saltwater charter captains, its recipients are selected each year through a rigorous process conducted by the Legendary Captains and

editor@marlinmag.com The Texas and worldwide big-game fishing communities lost a great man with the tragic passing of Capt. John Cochrane. He had just returned from catching more blue marlin in Costa Rica when he died in a single-vehicle crash near G

Photographer Pepper Ailor shared this image and experience from the second leg of the 2022 Los Sueños Signature Triple Crown: “There were five minutes left to fish on the last day. We needed a blue marlin to win the daily and then raised this one. Gr

• As a journalism major at Morehead State University in eastern Kentucky during the late 1970s, Richard Gibson landed a part-time job as a photographer for the school’s newspaper; the experience taught him that a career in news and sports photography

• Sea Angel and Rum Runner are two of the most familiar teams that have been fishing the Los Sueños Signature Triple Crown in Costa Rica nearly every year since its inception, and while both teams have visited the awards stage, neither has won the ov

• Although it’s not always a main topic of the sport-fishing conversation, most boats heading offshore or to remote fishing locations have no shortage of firearms on board. They do have more rods and reels than firearms, but plenty nonetheless. So wh

• The fishing in Kona, Hawaii, has been outstanding this winter, after an erratic summer. It started to get good in November, which is not unusual. What is unusual, though, is that the action remained above average through winter and into spring. Thi

• Your double line is coming up, or perhaps you can even see the fluorescent wind-on just below the surface. The anticipation of the release is palpable. The angler has done his job, and now the crew is ready for the endgame. But whether you’re relea

I remember riding on a 31-foot Bertram during one of my first offshore-fishing trips—I was getting soaking wet in the pre-dawn Texas darkness, my feet wedged against a cooler filled with J-hook-rigged Spanish mackerel and silver mullet, and we were g

Serves 4 By Capt. Thomas Copeland Florida is getting ready for its crawfish season, and we can’t wait. Not as rich as its Northern cousin, this lobster roll is the perfect alternative for those who prefer this simple, clawless crustacean. Elevate you

WHEN A SERIES OF SCIENTIFIC REPORTS DETAILING JAPANESE COMMERCIAL LONGLINE CATCHES ALONG AUSTRALIA’S GRE AT BARRIER REEF WAS RELEASED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF JAPAN IN 1965, THE REPORTS NOT ONLY SPECIFIED HOW PROLIFIC THE BILLFISH WERE OFF CAIRNS, BUT TH

Whenever we discuss IGFA world-record billfish, thoughts of exotic locations and remote destinations usually come to mind: the huge black marlin fishery that exists off Cairns, Australia, and the large blues that prowl the waters of the Azores and Ca

For most of Capt. Daniel Espinoza’s career, a life on the water was all he ever wanted. From a 10-year-old boy catching dock snappers with a hand line after school to running one of Costa Rica’s best-known charter boats to now heading up a busy opera

• Photographers call it the golden hour—those first and last minutes of daylight where the sun is lowest on the horizon. It’s a brief period that appears to cast a lustrous natural filter on the world. For offshore fishermen, it usually coincides wit

• That tropical invest you’ve been watching for the past week has just been named, and the damn thing is heading right toward you. Like most storms, it will probably turn away, but due diligence always pays in situations like these. The first priorit

• Designed to meet the specific requirements of an experienced boat owner fishing the competitive Gulf Coast tournaments, You Never Know is well underway at Delaware’s F&S Boatworks. Key features include a Palm Beach Towers hardtop, a pair of Onan 29

Hull No. 108 from Merritt’s Boat & Engine Works in Pompano Beach, Florida, is the second 77-footer for the storied builder. Wychmere features sleek, racy styling along with a hull running surface that is the culmination of Roy Merritt’s decades of bo

• Many buyers decide to take ownership of a vessel through an entity, the most common being a limited liability company, but sometimes through a corporation or limited partnership. The primary reason for owning a boat in a company is liability protec

• In my 20-plus years of advising affluent families, I had never had another adviser or money manager ask my opinion on what is happening in the markets and how they should position their clients. Well, this actually happened shortly after Russia inv

• It feels really special to celebrate such an accomplishment as a 20-year anniversary with the charity billfish tournament known simply as the Custom Shootout. Starting with just a few boats in the beginning to being sold out the past several years,

SEA WEEZ GEORGE TOWN, CAYMAN ISLANDS While working for Laurie Woodbridge on Sea Baby, I loved making weird baits to catch billfish. While we were catching live baits for juvenile black marlin and sailfish, we would also catch pinkies and whiptails an