Texas Fish & Game

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August 3, 2022

Is Govt. Action Threatening Gulf Billfish?

Officials with The Billfish Foundation are concerned about two key issues facing billfish around the nation. The first involves a key protected area in the Gulf of Mexico. Closed Zones Currently in Government Crosshairs The 20-year […]
March 1, 2022

How to Bill a Billfish

Some years ago I was in the cockpit of a sportfish with a guy who seemed to more or less know what he was doing, when another angler hooked up with a marlin. Always on the […]
July 9, 2020

Tagging Gulf Blue Marlin

Because overfished Atlantic marlin receive no government research funding priority, large data gaps relating to their life history characteristics remain. Satellite tagging provides a means to fill some of the data gaps by recording a marlin’s […]
November 2, 2016

Texas Hotshots – One of Twenty-eight

Carol is showing off her 10′ Marlin that she caught about 40 miles out of Los Suenos, Costa Rica. Seven of us fished for two days and landed 28 Marlin. All of the fish were between […]