Speaking Of Giant Billfish

June 30, 2010 Featured, Fishing

Here’s one for the crew of the Citation: This black marlin was caught during the last week of November 2009 by – follow me here – the husband of the radiology director at Gisborne Hospital in New Zealand.  It weighed in at a whopping 1,058 pounds and would have been released had it not been [...]

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Ted Williams Vs. Black Marlin (1954)

May 1, 2009 Fishing, Video

This is fascinating footage of an offshore fishing trip featuring baseball great Ted Williams in Cabo Blanco, Peru way back in December 1954.  Featured on Inside Sportfishings’  Black Marlin Boulevard DVD and promoted by Fishbuzz TV, the hokey Disney-let’s-go-to-the-drive-in music is quite the contrast to today’s fishing shows. Williams’s black marlin weighed in at 1,235 [...]

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