InTheBite

  • Home
  • News
    • All News
    • Featured Stories
    • General News
    • Captain of the Year
    • Tournament Results
    • First Builds
    • Splash Reports
    • Old Salts Rule
    • Tackle Tips
    • Dock Talk
    • Crew Records
    • Conservation
  • Tournaments
    • Calendar
    • Captain of the Year
    • Champion’s Cup
  • Shop
    • All Products
    • Subscriptions
    • Back Issues
    • Shirts
    • Hats & Visors
    • Miscellaneous
    • Release Rulers
  • Classifieds
  • Job Board
  • Contact
    • Contact InTheBite
    • InTheBite Media Kit
  • Log in

Innovating the Marlin Weight Formula

June 22, 2022 By InTheBite Digital Editor

marlin weight formula

By Dale Wills

Anytime I hear someone ask, “How big was the fish?” I’m often reminded of my father and his classic dad joke. Taking his hands from about 12 inches apart and slowly moving them to almost full arms width apart, he would gaze at you with a serious face and say, “It was about that far from the boat and weighed six pounds.”

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Featured Stories, Fishing, Science Tagged With: billfishing, marlin, marlin measurement, marlin weight, popular

2022 Cajun Canyons Billfish Classic Winners

June 16, 2022 By InTheBite Digital Editor

The Crawgator team with their first place 492.6-pound blue marlin. 

This year’s first place title at the 2022 Cajun Canyons Billfish Classic went to Southern Charm, Capt. Landon Bell. Mon Chari, Capt. Matt Coppoletta, took second with Amigo, Capt. Brad Schoenfeld, taking third.
Heaviest marlin went to Capt. Erik Chandler and the Crawgator team with their 492.6-pound blue marlin.

Top Captain Landon Bell and Top Mate Connor McLeod, Southern Charm.

Filed Under: Fishing, News, Tournament Results Tagged With: billfishing, Blue Marlin, Cajun Canyons Billfish Classic, Offshore Fishing

Expert Insight To Blue Marlin Fishing Hook Sets

June 7, 2022 By InTheBite Digital Editor

blue marlin

Photo: Joe Byrum

By Joe Byrum

When it comes to fishing for blue marlin with lures, the hook set can often be an overlooked part of the equation when things are going right and a heavily scrutinized element when they’re not going so well. Typically, when the latter comes into play a fish has just come off or you had a bite that didn’t translate into a hookup. The deliberation gets even heavier when these things occur in multiple instances during a short period of time. The truth is that some marlin aren’t going to be hooked no matter what we do.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Featured Stories, Fishing, Tackle, Techniques Tagged With: billfishing, Blue Marlin, Heavy Tackle, marlin, Marlin Fishing

42.3-Pound Dorado Earns $232,150

May 19, 2022 By InTheBite Digital Editor

On Saturday morning, the fleet ranging from 18-foot skiffs to 110-foot tricked-out sport fishers waited, eager to speed across the flat Sea of Cortez.

May 17, 2022, Loreto B.C.S —Sunday concluded the third Marina Puerto Escondido Fishing Tournament as 51 Teams competed for over a half-million dollars in cash prizes, the highest ever awarded for a fishing tournament in the Loreto area. According to Stenson Hamann, marketing manager of the event, “The attendance has grown 85 percent over its short three-year history, beginning in 2019.”

[Read more…]

Filed Under: General News, News, Press Releases, Tournament Results Tagged With: billfishing, dorado, fishing tournament, Marina Puerto Escondido Fishing Tournament

Form, Function and Fishing: Learning from Fish Physiology

April 18, 2022 By InTheBite Digital Editor

black marlin jumping

Black marlin have wide, powerful bills built for smashing tuna and not breaking.

ITB Staff

They say that you can tell a lot about a person by the way they present themselves. A few observations about the anatomy of a fish can just as accurately provide ways to approximate how they behave. There is an adage in biology that form follows function. The way something appears can tell you quite a bit about what it is good at doing.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Featured Stories, Fishing, Science Tagged With: billfishing, fish physiology, fish tail, Offshore Fishing

A Fishing Story from the Miss Annie

April 13, 2022 By InTheBite Digital Editor

fishing on the miss annie

By Barry Weshnak Miss Annie owner

When I was eight or nine years old my dad started taking me fishing off Long Branch pier in Long Branch, New Jersey for fluke during the summer and at night during the winter for ling and whiting. It was so cold that the nylon line would freeze between the water and the reel.  We drank a lot of hot chocolate and enjoyed our fishing time together. In my teens, my future brother-in-law, Frank, me and a buddy of ours who had a wooden skiff with an outboard motor fished off Monmouth Beach for stripers. The love of saltwater fishing took root as a family affair.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Adventures, Featured Stories, Fishing Tagged With: billfishing, boat owner, fishing, marlin, miss annie

Pirate’s Cove Billfish Tournament Announces New Omni Directional Sonar Guidelines

April 12, 2022 By InTheBite Digital Editor

Manteo, North Carolina, April 12, 2022—Heading into its 39th year of competitive sport-fishing out of Oregon Inlet North Carolina, PCBT continues to provide exceptional fishing opportunities and an even playing field for all of its participants.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Fishing, General News, News, Press Releases, Tournament Results Tagged With: billfish tournament, billfishing, omni directional sonar, pirates cove tournament

On the Waves of Change

March 31, 2022 By InTheBite Digital Editor

boat technology on the water

By Captain Kevin Deerman

Two things constantly changing our industry are technology and innovation. Fishing will always be fishing, but with all of the advancements there are many more crews traveling farther, faster and more comfortably and easily than ever before.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Boats, Electronics, Equipment, Featured Stories, Fishing Tagged With: billfishing, Charter Fishing, offshorefishing, sportfishing, technology

Blue Marlin Steal the Show During 6th Annual Pelagic Rockstar Tournament

February 2, 2022 By InTheBite Digital Editor

January 14 – 16, 2022—Marina Pez Vela, Quepos Costa Rica – Excitement and anticipation was in the air as 83 of the world’s top sport fishing teams assembled in Quepos, Costa Rica for the 6th annual Pelagic Rock Star Offshore Tournament. Located on the Pacific coast of central Costa Rica, Marina Pez Vela and the surrounding area of Manuel Antonio National Park is known as one of the most biologically diverse places anywhere in the world, and the fishing is second to none.  Open to the public, Marina Pez Vela is a super clean, modern, world-class yacht harbor with a wide variety of restaurants, bars, and shops – including a PELAGIC brand store – which makes it the perfect back drop for the sportfishing history that was about to be made.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: General News, News, Press Releases, Tournament Results Tagged With: billfishing, Offshore Fishing, pelagic, pelagic rockstar tournament

Tagged Sailfish Recaptured on Same Day

January 14, 2022 By InTheBite Digital Editor

sailfish release

NOAA Southeast Fisheries, Jan. 14, 2022—Anyone involved in a tagging program is excited when they get a report of a recapture since these are the lynchpin of a volunteer, constituent based program. So when scientists with NOAA’s Southeast Fisheries Science Center were notified just after Thanksgiving that a few tagged sailfish had been recaptured, they were thrilled.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Featured Stories, Fishing, General News Tagged With: billfishing, catch and release, Sailfish, sailfish recapture, tagging

Next Page »

Connect With InTheBite

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Subscribe to InTheBite Magazine Today!

InTheBite Magazine Current Cover

Our latest issue is hitting the docks now! Be sure to subscribe to the hottest bluewater mag on the market. Purchase or Subscribe »

InTheBite Champion’s Cup

InTheBite Champions Cup Logo

New for 2022, the Champion’s Cup is an optional paid entry with a winner-takes-all prize format for teams who want to up the stakes in each division utilizing our longstanding tournament scoring formula.

Captain of the Year Cup Standings

COTY / ITB Cup Logo

News

  • Elizabeth Arn To Achieve Junior Blue Marlin Record

    Elizabeth Arn To Achieve Junior Blue Marlin Record

    On May 31, 12-year-old Elizabeth Arn reeled in a 624-pound blue marlin off the coast of São Vicente, Cape Verde. Her catch will mark the new pending world record for the Female IGFA Junior Angler category. Her angling was “outstanding,” says her father, Jonathan Arn. Upon getting a bite from the marlin, Elizabeth pushed the drag up to 25 pounds... [Read More...]

  • New Travel Update for The Bahamas

    New Travel Update for The Bahamas

    The Islands of the Bahamas, June 16, 2022—Effective Sunday 19th June 2022 The Bahamas Travel Health Visa (BTHV) will no longer be required to travel to The Bahamas. However, all present COVID-19 Testing, and Vaccination Protocols will remain in effect and will need to be presented at check-in. [Read More...]

  • It Just Takes Time Three-Peats as 2022 MGCBC Champion

    It Just Takes Time Three-Peats as 2022 MGCBC Champion

    June 13, 2022; Biloxi, Mississippi—Owner/angler Nick Pratt, Capt. Chris Hood and the It Just Takes Time team swept the blue marlin divisions by weighing the only qualifier during the 2022 Mississippi Gulf Coast Billfish Classic, which concluded Sunday, June 12. The 763.6-pound blue gave the team an unprecedented win for the third year in a row. That feat has never been accomplished... [Read More...]

  • 2022 Georgetown Blue Marlin Tournament Results

    2022 Georgetown Blue Marlin Tournament Results

    Jay Weaver, captain of the Blue Sky, seized first place in the 54th annual Georgetown Blue Marlin tournament, which ran from May 26 to May 28. No fewer than 71 boats participated in the event, the largest turnout since 2000, according to Tournament Coordinator Amy Dukes. The Blue Sky caught and released three blue marlins and one sailfish, while Capt. Stuart... [Read More...]

  • Old No. 7 Wins the Inaugural Florida Sailfish Cup

    Old No. 7 Wins the Inaugural Florida Sailfish Cup

    Florida Sailfish Cup, June 3, 2022—After seven months of fishing, the first annual Florida Sailfish Cup has come to a close. 41 boats participated in the tournament and represented all different locations over Florida, from New Smyrna Beach all the way to Key West, FL. 183 Sailfish were released between the top three teams across their five fishing days and... [Read More...]

Search InTheBite

Copyright © 2022 InTheBite, LLC · All Rights Reserved.