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Now that we are past the holiday season, it's time to get ready to fish your favorite tournament. Teams from around the world are finalizing their schedules for the events they want to fish in 2024, working out the final details, and marking their calendars for what's ahead. It's always exciting for professional crews to be part of this planning process.
With the sailfish season underway in Florida and Costa Rica, the boats at home are catching their live baits for those tournaments, which has become an industry unto itself in the past decade. The trolling boats are buying their bait-rigging materials so they can start putting together thousands of rigs for both their hook baits and dredges. They also need to make sure those 10 to 20 sailfish rods and reels are ready to go, with new line and fresh grease in the reels. Each rod is inspected for any nicks in the guides, and the reel seats are checked too.
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Denne historien er fra March 2024-utgaven av Marlin.
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TOURNAMENT SEASON IS HERE
Time to gear up for your favorite events
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BAYLISS 76
The second project for a current Bayliss owner is in the initial phases of construction at Bayliss Boatworks in Wanchese, North Carolina.
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POINTS OF NEGOTIATION IN FOREIGN CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS
Be sure to understand the details when building a vessel in another country
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MERRITT 88
A unique skybridge design from a world-famous boatbuilder
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BIG BLUES AND BIG MONEY IN BERMUDA TRIPLE CROWN
Who will take home the coveted title of champion team this summer?
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INSTRUCTOR SPOTLIGHT: BRAD GOODRICH & CHARLES PERRY
New school meets old school when it comes to proper angling training
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RETURN OF DOUBLE HEADER
The rebirth of a classic sport-fisher amid one of the most prolific destinations for big blue marlin
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THE SCIENCE OF FADS
An in-depth look at what makes these fish attractors so effective
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ARMED AND DANGEROUS
In a day when piracy on the high seas still exists, traveling with firearms on board remains not only a personal choice but a safety issue as well
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JIMMY'S DREAM
The planning and design of a new Merritt lost shaker of salt included catamaran,