Shawn Bean

Dec 6, 2024 | sportfishingmag.com | Shawn Bean

The brown bear 20 yards away is living its best life. The gravel road provides an elevated perch to watch, with great awe, a bear in a creek up to its neck, standing on its hind legs, as hundreds of migrating salmon swirl and swim by. For this sizable animal, the eddy is both cold plunge and buffet. Nearby, untold numbers of silvers stack up in a shallow stretch, unable to pass over the rocks despite their thrashing and tail beating.

Oct 14, 2024 | sportfishingmag.com | Shawn Bean

It’s an incredible accomplishment: one angler holding 178 IGFA world records. What makes it even more impressive is that he’s not a man of unlimited means. (Another angler, Steve Wozniak has 239 IGFA world records, but we’ve written about him before.) Dennis Triana is an everyman — a firefighter from Miami, Florida, whose fishing trips often involve a cheap flight and the support of his wife and two daughters. Here’s a world tour of some of Triana’s most memorable record-breaking moments.

Jul 26, 2024 | sportfishingmag.com | Shawn Bean

Over the past year, Flip Pallot’s Instagram has featured airboat accidents, whitetail deer, turkey and hog hunts, making archery quivers for friends, and teaching fly-fishing school. The host of the seminal “Walker’s Cay Chronicles,” voice of Sport Fishing Television, and co-owner of Frigate Reserve rum is staying plenty busy. But not so busy as to avoid our “Favorite Things” Q&A.

Feb 9, 2024 | sportfishingmag.com | Shawn Bean

The numbers of Atlantic bluefin tuna in the waters off Europe, and the United Kingdom in particular, have increased significantly in recent years. It has inspired a recreational catch-and-release fishery where captains are tagging fish and serving as citizen scientists. Jon Whittle The Start Point Lighthouse sits out on a craggy peninsula flanked by the purple moor grasses and rush pastures of South Devon.