The Saltwater Insider Crew – Page 4

Two Hundred Thirty-Seven Boats, Twenty-One Fish: The White Marlin Open Comes Down to the Last Day

Seventy-nine boats went out this morning. That is all that is left of a 334-boat fleet, and when the scales

Bill Sharpe’s first bite of the day was worth more than most boats in the harbor. The Mister Pete out

Yesterday the white marlin board was empty and 277 boats were on the water trying to fix that. They fixed

Seventeen boats Monday. Two hundred fifty-five Tuesday. Two hundred seventy-seven this morning. The fleet has found its window, and the

Monday, only seventeen boats fished. Today, two hundred fifty-five did. That is the whole story of the 53rd White Marlin

Registration closes at seven o’clock tonight. The Captain’s Meeting starts the same hour. And at eight tomorrow morning, somewhere out

Walk the docks at Sunset Marina in West Ocean City tonight and you can feel it before you see it.

For a year, the crossing stopped making sense for a lot of Insiders. In July 2025 the Bahamas raised its

Two months into the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season, the basin has produced exactly one named storm. Tropical Storm Arthur brushed

There is a version of pro surfing that everybody knows — Pipeline, Teahupo’o, the big names, the barrels that end