In this episode, we dive into an exhilarating fishing trip I took with Bob in Venice, Louisiana, a unique fishing destination known for its vibrant fishing culture and stunning scenery. We kick things off with some light-hearted banter about the energy that comes with hooking a fish, which is always a game-changer for our podcast vibe. Bob shares h…

In this podcast episode, the hosts dive into thrilling fishing adventures, tournament insights, and essential boat safety tips. They discuss a harrowing fishing day filled with lost catches, the dynamics of fishing tournaments like the White Marlin Open, and the importance of proper gear and teamwork. The conversation also touches on innovative fis…

Today, we are excited to bring back the State of Sportfishing podcast with an incredible episode featuring Mark Spurgeon, Leo Chapman, Danny Clinton, and Bob Hovey. In this episode, everyone catches up and shares their fascinating experiences on the water, from their thrilling marlin fishing adventures and first encounters with sonar to transitioni…

In this episode of the State of Sportfishing podcast, host James LeGrone talks to Taylor Sanford to discuss their recent victory in a fishing competition. They reflect on his boss's bragging rights and the origins of their team. The conversation delves into the purpose of fiberglass boats and the beauty of the sport. Taylor Sanford, who shares his …

In this episode of the State of Sportfishing podcast, host James LeGrone is joined by Eric Leach to discuss all things fishing. They start by talking about the current weather conditions in Florida and then dive into the topic of Eric's boat, the Miss Elizabeth. Eric shares that he has been running this 61 Viking for two years now and also mentions…

In this episode of the Bill Fish podcast, Captain Big Wave shares his journey from being a bottom fishing mate on head boats to becoming a successful captain. He talks about starting in Daytona Beach and how his love for fishing began at a young age. He also discusses his time in college and a surf trip to Hatteras that led him to discover the Oreg…

In today’s podcast, we’re joined by Daniel Klein, he runs the boat “Deploy” a custom 58 assegai. He is based on the east coast of Australia, you can check him out at the pursuit of giants game fishing, where you can find a bunch of his awesome marlin adventures. Daniel Klein explains the process and what goes into fighting a giant fish, how to lead…

In this episode, host Leo Chapman is joined by Laura Russell, a guest who recently completed the Royal Slam. The Royal Slam is a fishing achievement that involves catching all of the billfish species in both oceans. Laura completed this impressive feat in just und 6 months, visiting different countries along the way. She shares her experience and t…

In this episode of the State of Sport Fishing Podcast, hosts James and Willie Zimmerman dive into Willie's journey in the fishing industry. Willie shares how he got started at a young age, fishing with his dad and friends. From his first tuna catch to growing up with boats and fishing every weekend, Willie's passion for fishing shines through. Join…

In this episode of the State of Sportfishing podcast, Leo interviews Marty from Main Attraction, a charter boat captain in the Florida Keys. Marty shares his fascinating story of how he got into the charter business, starting from his childhood experiences of fishing for fun during summer vacations. He also talks about taking over the company and t…

In this episode, Leo from State of Sportfishing podcast interviews the legendary Ryan Higgins, a respected figure in the fishing industry. They discuss how Ryan ordered a shirt from Billfish and the mutual respect between the brand and experienced anglers. Ryan shares his fishing background, including his 20-year tenure with Viking Yachts and his c…

In this episode of the State of Sportfishing podcast, Leo Chapman from the Billfish Group is joined by previous guest Wallis to discuss their successful fishing season. They start by talking about their move to the Bahamas after a good season in Costa Rica, where they won a daily. In the Bahamas, they won the White Marlin Roundup tournament and had…

In today's episode of the State of Sportfishing Podcast, host Leo talks with Josh Jorgensen about how Josh started out, what he has done, his experiences, AI, and touches on Josh's recent illness and upcoming surgeries. Tune in for an engaging conversation about fishing and personal challenges. If you have any requests or awesome guest for the podc…

Phill Mahn was Born In NJ, but has spent his whole life in Florida. Together with Mark his business Partner he always joked around about starting a boat dealership company and now he does Custom Boats with vilano & FrontrRunner. Subscribe to get notifications as soon as we upload a new podcast! Spotify: https://Spotify/State/of/Sportfishing Podcast…

In today's episode of the State of Sportfishing Podcast, host James LaGround talks with guests Nicole and Katie about what made them love fishing. Katie left her entire life behind to live in Costa Rica with her spouse for fishing. Nicole shares her story of falling in love with swordfishing in high school and keeping a detailed log of her experien…

In today's episode of the State of Sportfishing Podcast, host James LaGround talks with Tye Lalik to discuss how Tye got his start in the fishing industry. Starting with bass fishing in ponds while growing up in Virginia, Tye eventually moved on to fishing in the Chesapeake Bay and offshore. After borrowing some 50s and catching a few tunas offshor…

In today's Podcast we are joined by Carl Allen, Carl Allen was born in Rochester, NY, and received a degree in business. After college, Mr. Allen began working for Heritage Bag Company in a production capacity. Throughout his career he worked in nearly every department within the company, eventually becoming President/CEO. In 2005, Mr. Allen acquir…

In this episode of the State of Sportfishing podcast, Leo is joined by the legendary team, Bad Company, who hold the record for the most billfish releases in one day. They discuss their world tour and how it's been working out for them, including traveling to northern and southern hemispheres and multiple oceans. They also talk about their recent m…

Today we are joined by a legend Al McGlashan to talk about his fishery in Australia and share random facts. Crazy to hear how and why Al got the motivation to start filming and taking pictures of his experiences offshore and how he catches fewer fish now because he is fully focused on getting the Shot of the fish. If you have any requests or awesom…

In today's podcast, we are joined by Mike Bell an team Hells Bells. Running a 33 Frontrunner Catching everything from Kingfish and Wahoo to Swordfish and Marlin. Recently winning a Wahoo Tournament rocking some Billfish Custom gear. Listen or watch the whole podcast to hear about the massive 113 pounder on 20 pound test or the 900 pound+ Marlin tha…

In today's podcast, we are joined by Garrett Lee, living in Hawaii and owner of Tsutomu Hawaii handcrafted Lures, today we talk about Lures fishing different Lures in different conditions, and why Garret started making and assembling Lures. If you have any requests or awesome guest for the podcast let us know via: podcast@billfish.site If you like …

In today's podcast, we Re upload a podcast we did last year with Jon Duffie to appreciate his legendary moment catching 57 White Marlin in Day that was actually a miscalculation it was actually 58 White Marlin in a day, Growing up on the Docs in Ocean City Maryland. If you have any requests or awesome guest for the podcast let us know via: podcast@…

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Today we have Anthony Mendillo from the Keen M Charters in Isla Mujeres, Mexico. Anthony has been in Isla Mujeres for over 25 years. Growing up in Rhode Island moved to Florida after school to fish on a 43 Merritt which eventually brought him to Isla Mujeres to finally settled down in the Isla Mujeres. Anthony is to be found every day of the season…

In today's podcast, we are joined by Anthony Burns. Anthony Burns was on talking about analyzing the current, ocean temperatures and all the date we collect to go out fishing using satellites, learn what eddies are how they form and why they hold fish and where they hold fish. Anthony is with the company ROFSS you can contact them for date and info…

In today's podcast, we are joined by Chuck Moore runs the Artemis Express boat, that got fully refitted after being hit by lightning they added the game-changing Omni Sonar one of the few serious Express boats out there. Chuck has been on the Artemis for the past 5 years, he always wanted to fish with them as he fished with some of the o family in …

In today's podcast, we are joined by Mark Deblasio, Legend Mark Deblasio joins us today his specialty catching Bluefin Tuna and Big Eye Tuna. Mark DeBlasio won his first tournament in the Wahoo category and many other Tuna categories later on. Mark Runs the Blue-runner. Canyon runs is something Mark has been doing really early on and talks on some …

We have a #throwback today we had the pleasure to talk with Capt. Q. Owner and operator of the Miami charter boat "The Cutting Edge" and Capt. of the south Florida tournament boat Contender One. Also formally Capt. of the famous "Get Lit" who has won countless amounts of sailfish tournaments from Palm Beach to Key West and putting up record numbers…

In today's podcast, we are joined by Alex Gallaher, a family that loves to fish, they also have a family-owned roofing company. On the boat Alex his brother is the Captain he does his part raising the fish, only the team needs to gain some more experience pitching to the marlins. If you have any requests or awesome guest for the podcast let us know…

In today's podcast, we are joined by Aaron Stasiak, Aaron the one behind the Instagram page QualifiedCaptain, even tho it may look from the outside that QualifiedCaptain is just a para to make fun of boaters who make mistakes. It isn't just that it also helps people and make people aware of boating safety and what to do in situations of distress. I…

In today's podcast, we are joined by James Brown, James Brown is the Captain of the "Jaruco" a 90ft Jarrett Bay build with carbon fiber seats and outriggers with titanium shafts to cut the weight down. James is originally from New Zeeland, he got into it just like most because of their father. New Zeeland had an extensive charter fleet but that was…

In today's podcast, we are joined by Carey Chen he is an Artist and Angler fishing and drawing around the world, chances are you have seen his work. He makes a lot of art for tournaments and shirt designs for some boats. Carey doesn't just draw he is also active in the cockpit trying to catch some Marlin. There was a time he would go to 50-60 fishi…

In today's podcast, we are joined by the owner of "Puravida" and a couple of the anglers on the team. The anglers and owner of "Puravida" a 55 Viking haven't been fishing for long but they sure love it, they got into it because they saw the videos of the Los Sueños triple crown and they knew they had to get down there, and now they are going to sel…

In today's podcast, we are joined by James Cleare. James Cleare joined us after his big win for the sailfish tournament , James used to fish with nick for 15 years, last year they separated Nick moved to the Frontrunner and James went on to run a contender doing charters and the Tournaments. James Dominated the Tournament all through from start to …

For the 100th Episode of the State of Sportfishing, we held a live podcast at the Miami Boat show with two Miami Legends which we already have had on the podcast Art Sap & Quinten Dieterle. Today Anthony asks questions to start the Miami guys at Miami. Some topics they discussed are what the guys think of the new fishing technology, Stories on Tour…

In today's podcast, we are joined by Hook Harmeling. Hook Harmeling is the one behind Billfish Reports, we talk about how much the reports help a fishing program to choose where they want to go next and to collect data from how after years the fishery has changed, certain locations where they used to catch double-digit billfish and now they catch b…

In today's podcast, we are joined by Bryan and Taylor they run the SeaBros Podcast, Bryan and Taylor are some brother who grew up fishing and now do Charter Fishing for Gian Blue Fin tuna and Striped bass. Today we talk about their experiences as charter Captains, what has gotten them to their current succes as Captains, and what they find most imp…

Today Nick & Anthony run the podcast themselves as there is no guest joining, they talk about how the tournament season is going for nick, and how he's liking the New frontrunner boat he is running in Florida how inconsistent the sail fishing has been catching 6-7 one half day and the next day he goes a full day and they just release 1. Anthony tal…

In today's podcast, we are joined by Marco Bonaiuto, Co-founder of Boat Buddies and now works full time for Nautical networks going around taking pictures and videos of boats, making a short 30-60sec video for the brokers to have good quality footage to post on the boat. If you have any requests or awesome guest for the podcast let us know via: pod…

In today's podcast, we are joined by Captain Dom Petrarca. captain Dom Petrarca from Coastal Charters Sportfishing he focuses on light tackle fishing for bluefin tuna, using popping and jigging techniques to get the hook up on some giants. Capt. Dom hunts the bluefin tuna from the land he says, he trailers to where the fish are to go after them. Fo…

In today's podcast, we are joined by John LaGrone, Captain John LaGrone leads yacht sales in sport fishing and maintenance teams at Galati at the beautiful Los Sueños Resort in Costa Rica. Captain John is an icon in the sport fishing industry. His impressive global fishing experience, IGFA world records, and tournament victories speak for themselve…

In today's podcast, we are joined by James David a 23-year-old mate who started on the 46' L&H Charter boat out of Miami, James grew up fishing with his family and has seen more than most by being a world record holder. James has focused most of his fishing career as a freelance mate and record holder, after graduating and has seen many places most…

In today’s podcast, we’re joined by Jay Househam. Captain of the little audrie an 82 Viking. Jay talks about the new rig how he started of fishing to where he is as a captain now. If you like the podcast, please support us by checking out some of our latest products, especially the Performance Pants, on Check out our gear at https://billfishgear.co…

In today’s podcast, we’re joined by Joe von Thron he has his own YouTube channel with around 50k subscribers where he posts on his fishing trips, his favorite type of fishery being bottom fishing. Tune in to learn from Joe von Thron. If you like the podcast, please support us by checking out some of our latest products, especially the Performance P…

In today’s podcast, we’re joined by Michael Zammito and Christos Karplus two young fisherman out of Cape Cod going out for Bluefin Tuna on their small center Console boats, fighting a blue fin and being 20 feet away from a different boat. Micheal & Christos talk about the fishery the sustainability and how they started. If you have any requests or …

In today’s podcast, we’re joined by Austin Robins, captain of a 66 Spencer “Max Bet” which travels between Maryland and Costa Rica. Austin Robins goes head to head with some of the best teams, and we hear some crazy stories about Austin leading his team to 3rd place in Costa Rica, Los Sueños. Pretty cool how Austin started working as a fisherman it…

In today’s podcast, we’re joined by Jens van der Lubbe located in Curacao, Jens has a fleet with a 39 Seavee he uses more commercial-style fishing fads for tuna with live bait and Jigs. Jens recently added a 44 Merritt "La Hechicera" to his fleet, which he uses more as a pleasure Sportfishing boat try's to fish Marlin on it as much as possible. Jen…

In today’s podcast, we’re joined by Daniel Klein, he runs the boat “Deploy” a custom 58 assegai. He is based on the east coast of Australia, you can check him out at the pursuit of giants game fishing, where you can find a bunch of his awesome marlin adventures. Daniel Klein explains the process and what goes into fighting a giant fish, how to lead…

In today’s podcast, we’re joined by Micheal de Freitas, captain of the Magic Lady. Located in the Caribbean. We've recently seen Micheal catch over 20 billfish out of Saint Lucia, and we wanted to bring him on to talk about his, crew where he usually fishes, and what he was doing to catch double-digits of marlins. If you have any requests or awesom…