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Walker’s Cay Invitational to be Produced by Fly Zone Fishing

January 17, 2022 By InTheBite Digital Editor

West Palm Beach, Florida/Dallas, Texas—In partnership with Allen Exploration, Fly Zone Fishing has announced that it will be producing the second annual Walker’s Cay Invitational, slated for May 18-21, 2022, in Walker’s Cay, located in the northern Bahamas.   [Read more…]

Filed Under: General News, News, Tournament Results Tagged With: fishing tournament, fly navarro, Walkers Cay, walkers cay invitationial

Captain Sam Crutchfield—Singer, Songwriter, Angler

July 29, 2021 By InTheBite Editor

By Dale Wills

Singer, songwriter, newspaper columnist, book author, duck hunter and longtime captain, Sam Crutchfield can catch most anything that swims in fresh or salt water. Were that not enough, Capt. Sam is also proficient in Morse code and was bitten by an alligator while wade fishing for bass in a Florida lake. Captain Sam Crutchfield is an outdoorsman in every sense of the word. When speaking with Sam you could hear about most anything—a play by play story of a big blue off Walker’s Cay or about any number of adventures in Florida or the Caribbean. Today you can still find Capt. Sam at his local boat ramp fishing in the Indian River Lagoon and along the Treasure Coast beaches almost every morning. “You can never get a missed day of fishing back,” he says gently.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Featured Stories, General News, News, Old Salts Rule Tagged With: Captain, fort pierce, old salts rule, sportsman, Walkers Cay

Captain Billy Black: A Pirate Looks At Eighty

January 28, 2021 By InTheBite Digital Editor

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Capt. Billy Black (left), with a 694-pound blue marlin caught in 1981. Photo courtesy Billy Black

By Dale Wills

Ask Captain Billy Black about his fondness with red bottom paint or saving a seven-year-old boys life from drowning ten feet under the ocean’s surface in choppy seas or running around Walkers Cay at wee hours hour in the morning with former President Nixon unbeknownst to the secret service or outfitting his boat dogs with sunglasses so they could spot fish from the bridge of the Duchess. For a captain who has invested over 50 years of his life to his sportfishing craft, these stories and countless others are worthy of a comfy dock box and your favorite beverage any time you cross paths with Captain Billy Black.

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Filed Under: Featured Stories, Owners, People Tagged With: Bahamas, bahamas charter fishing, Captain, duchess, Hatteras Yachts, Walkers Cay

A Life on the Sea: Capt. Billy Black on the 50′ Duchess

December 15, 2020 By InTheBite Digital Editor

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Captain Billy Black is well-known among the sportfishing community, especially along the Treasure Coast and the Bahamas. With a wealth of experience, and an interesting history to boot, Black is one of those captains who can truly say that he’s ‘been there and done that.’

We stopped by to chat with Black on his classic 50-foot Hatteras sportfisher, Duchess, that can be seen taking charters out to fish the waters off Stuart and the Bahamas. For more information on Capt. Billy Black’s sportfishing charters, visit captbillyblack.com or check out his fish de-hookers and lures here: captbillyblack.com/index.php/dehooker

Filed Under: Crew, Featured Stories, People Tagged With: 50' hatteras, Captain, duchess, Hatteras Yachts, Walkers Cay

Walker’s Cay Born-Again 2020

July 2, 2019 By InTheBite Editor

The fabled blue marlin destination is being reborn….

Superyacht owner, businessman and philanthropist Carl Allen has purchased the island of Walker’s Cay in the Bahamas. Allen describes his relationship with the northernmost Bahamian island, which he has been visiting since a child of 12, as a “love affair”.

Filed Under: Caribbean, Featured Stories, General News, News, Places Tagged With: Bahamas, carl allen, carribean, Walkers Cay

Walker’s Cay May Return

September 26, 2014 By InTheBite Editor

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Written by: Timothy Roberts, The Abaconian

Above: Walker’s Cay – a Sportsfishing paradise when it was in its heyday.

Recent reports suggest that the Government is hoping to close on a sale of Walker’s Cay to a US real estate billionaire and return it to its [Read more…]

Filed Under: General News Tagged With: Walkers Cay, Walkers Cay For Sale, Walkers Cay Sportfishing

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