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1 week ago | marlinmag.com | Jack Vitek

Special delivery: Sign up for the free Marlin email newsletter. Subscribe to Marlin magazine and get a year of highly collectible, keepsake editions – plus access to the digital edition and archives.  The 67th Annual Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament delivered a wild week of twists and turns, with more than $6.3 million on the line and a fleet of 272 boats competing out of Morehead City, North Carolina.

1 week ago | marlinmag.com | Jack Vitek

Special delivery: Sign up for the free Marlin email newsletter. Subscribe to Marlin magazine and get a year of highly collectible, keepsake editions – plus access to the digital edition and archives.  I first saw the new Regulator 35 at the 2025 Miami Boat Show. Sitting high and dry on the convention floor, its flawless fit and finish were immediately apparent. But a boat like this isn’t meant to sit at a show—it’s built for blue water. My chance came in early March off Pompano Beach, Florida.

2 weeks ago | marlinmag.com | Jack Vitek

Special delivery: Sign up for the free Marlin email newsletter. Subscribe to Marlin magazine and get a year of highly collectible, keepsake editions – plus access to the digital edition and archives.  The 2025 Mississippi Gulf Coast Billfish Classic brought 87 boats to the docks of Biloxi’s Point Cadet Marina, in the shadow of the famed Golden Nugget casino, for a week of high-stakes action and heavy-hitting bluewater competition.

2 weeks ago | marlinmag.com | Jen Copeland

Marlin University is now Marlin Expeditions! We travel to the best big-game destinations on Earth, at peak times of the year, and teach the most cutting-edge techniques to catch billfish. Check out our 2025 expeditions. Fishermen have been branding each other with nicknames for as long as they’ve been chasing fish. Whether it’s a skill, a personality quirk or a moment of infamy, these monikers stick like salt spray on a bridge enclosure.

3 weeks ago | marlinmag.com | Jack Vitek

Special delivery: Sign up for the free Marlin email newsletter. Subscribe to Marlin magazine and get a year of highly collectible, keepsake editions – plus access to the digital edition and archives.  The 2025 Walker’s Cay Invitational hosted 55 elite teams in the northern Bahamas for four days of world-class fishing and million-dollar stakes.