State of Sportfishing - Billfish Group

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: https://Podcasst/State/of/Sportfishing If yo...

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 experiences. She also reveals that she used to babysi...

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 offshore, nowadays Tye works on various sportfishing...

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 acquired Heritage Bag Company. He sold the company...

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 move from Brazil to Cape Verde, fishing the sa...

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 awesome guest for the podcast let us know via: podcast@b...

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 that broke their rod. If you have any requests o...

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 the podcast, please support us by checking ou...

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@billfish.site If you like the podcast, please...

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 awesome guest for the podcast let us know via: podcast@b...

In today's podcast were joined by Matt and Benny they explain what Captains For Clean Water is and why and how we can take action. Be part of captains for clean water so that our Inshore and Offshore fisheries don't disappear because of the action we are taking on land that affects the structure of the inshore that then doesn't hold bait and fish anymore. If you have any requests or...

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 outside on the Ocean, where he says the Winter se...

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 information on where you should go fishing next...

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 the past. Chuck has won a couple of t runnin...

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 stories here in the podcast. If you have any...

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 on tournament days with 30 p...

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 via: podcast@billfish.site If you like the p...

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. If you have any requests or awesome guest...

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 declining slowly. James got an opp...

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 fishing events every year to make artwork for...

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 sell the 55 and receiv...

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 end. If you have any requests or awesome gue...

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 Tournaments, the sharks and a Q&A with the gue...

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 bigger billfish in single digits. Hook also re...

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 important in getting repeating clients. If you h...