The ­charter fleet today. Courtesy Richard Stanczyk. No one believed you could catch sailfish in 15 feet of water back then, but Starr did, says his then-mate, Capt. Alex Adler, now the veteran ...

The team members of Buddy Rowe – the champions of the 2024 South Carolina Governor’s Cup Billfishing Series – celebrate their record-setting performance of amassing 14,075 points. Courtesy of Cameron ...

The Early Years. Charles Johnson, a car dealer from the other end of the state in Asheville, North Carolina, was an avid fisherman. Based on his desire to experience pelagic fishing in other parts of ...

Blue marlin show a definite affinity for FADs, both in the Caribbean and in the Pacific. Richard Gibson. The first major theory why fish aggregate on FADs is known as the food-chain hypothesis, which ...

Discover the evolution of tagging billfish, from early efforts to , to groundbreaking satellite technology like the pop-up satellite archival tag (PSAT). Learn how initiatives from groups like The ...

Learn how ocean currents and warm-core eddies drive big-game sport fisheries worldwide. Discover how real-time satellite data, bathymetric features, and boundary currents shape ideal conditions for ...

Discover how Treasure Coast Propellers and Wildcat Propellers are pushing the boundaries of marine technology, from precision tuning to groundbreaking 3D-printed props, keeping sport-fishing boats at ...

Once the world’s dominant source of old-growth teak, Myanmar’s political turmoil and trade restrictions have brought global supply to a near standstill—disrupting marine craftsmanship and reshaping ...

Jimmy’s Sport-Fishers. Many years and many more boats later, in 2006, Buffett owned a 42-foot Rybovich called Last Mango that he began to bring to the boatyard at Merritt’s Boat & Engine Works in ...

What They Do. There are currently three companies that sell ­omnidirectional sonars: Furuno, Simrad and MAQ. Furuno was the earliest player in the sport-fishing game, releasing its first version, ...

A Flair for Innovation “We put a lot of engineering into our boats, and each one, from a 60-footer to a 90-footer, gets the same attention,” says Gary Davis, superintendent of new construction at the ...

The highly regarded Coral Sea Region Billfish Atlas, released in the 1980s by the Australian Institute of Marine Science in Townsville, noted even back then the incredible catch rates from this area, ...