Eighty Pounds on the First Bite: A New White Marlin Leader with One Day Left After Today
Bill Sharpe’s first bite of the day was worth more than most boats in the harbor. The Mister Pete out […]
A Five Point Two Million Dollar Blue Marlin: The Open Breaks Wide Open on Day Three
Yesterday the white marlin board was empty and 277 boats were on the water trying to fix that. They fixed
Two Hundred Fifty-Five Boats and Not One White Marlin: Day Three of the Open
Seventeen boats Monday. Two hundred fifty-five Tuesday. Two hundred seventy-seven this morning. The fleet has found its window, and the
Seventeen Boats, Then Two Hundred Fifty-Five: The White Marlin Open Finds Its Weather Window
Monday, only seventeen boats fished. Today, two hundred fifty-five did. That is the whole story of the 53rd White Marlin
Lines In at Eight: The White Marlin Open Starts Tomorrow, and the Fleet Is Arguing About Sonar
Registration closes at seven o’clock tonight. The Captain’s Meeting starts the same hour. And at eight tomorrow morning, somewhere out
The Flags Are Already Flying: Ocean City Fills Up Two Days Out from the White Marlin Open
Walk the docks at Sunset Marina in West Ocean City tonight and you can feel it before you see it.
The Bahamas Blinked: Cruising Permit Fees Come Back Down
For a year, the crossing stopped making sense for a lot of Insiders. In July 2025 the Bahamas raised its
The Quietest Season in a Decade: What a Dead Atlantic Means for Your Fall Passage
Two months into the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season, the basin has produced exactly one named storm. Tropical Storm Arthur brushed
Huntington Beach Is the Last Door: The 2026 US Open of Surfing and the Fight to Get on Tour
There is a version of pro surfing that everybody knows — Pipeline, Teahupo’o, the big names, the barrels that end
The Two Million Dollar Season That Isn’t: IHRA Pulls the Plug on Its Offshore Series
Last winter, American offshore racing got the biggest cash injection in its history. This month, that season quietly died. The