As beautiful as it is, the open ocean is a barren place that is largely devoid of structure, and any piece of floating debris — big or small, natural or manmade — is, at times, capable of attracting a ...

Mississippi born. Beach kid. Steel magnolia. Ellen Peel wasn’t satisfied with just her law degree from Ole Miss, so she headed west to Seattle, where she earned her master’s degree in law in marine ...

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - Thursday morning boats paraded down the beach in anticipation of the official start of the 2025 Bay Point Billfish Open. “We had a coast guard flyover and they took off ...

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) -It is a big week ahead for Point South Marina at Bay Point and the folks running the Bay Point Billfish Open. Though that event doesn’t officially get started until ...

The Bay Point Billfish Open, a major Gulf sportfishing tournament, runs from Thursday, June 25th to Saturday, June 28th. Anglers compete for a $1 million purse, targeting catch-and-release species and ...

MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. (WNCT) — The first Big Rock Kids Billfish Tournament kicked off Thursday. It features anglers age 16 and younger all trying to catch some fish like they do in the big one: The Big ...

The fishing charter website FishingBooker has named Costa Rica as the fourth-best billfish destination in the world. The list — based entirely on customer preferences and reviews, according to a ...

There’s a lot to unpack in this seemingly straightforward photo of a woman about to smack a bottle against a submarine. The first question that comes to mind is — what the heck is she wearing? That ...

BALDWIN COUNTY, Ala. (WKRG) — The 2025 Orange Beach Billfish Classic ended with a record purse of $1,286,900, the largest in the tournament’s 29-year history. The Orange Beach Billfish Competition has ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - The battle cry for this weekend is “fish on!” The 26th Annual Gulf Coast Billfish Classic features $1.3 million in prize money at stake for anglers from all over the region, ...

A new species of fossil billfish has been named after a world-leading palaeontologist from the University of Otago. A paper recently published in the journal Gondwana Research describes two large, ...