Florida's Record-Breaking Sailfish Bite
Florida's Record-Breaking Sailfish Bite A series of hydrometeorological and biological events must have occurred off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida, during the 39th annual Pelican Yacht Club Invitational Billfish Tournament in January, when a total of 969 sailfish were released in just four days — 712 of them on Day Two — breaking records by the handful. Capt. David Grubbs’s 73-fish tournament broke Capt. Scott Fawcett’s 2012 record of 57. Grubbs and the commercial kingfish fleet were credited for locating the biomass. This is the story of that incredible event Capt. David Grubbs, Grand Slam First Place — 73 releases. We had been to Fort Pierce a few days prior to the tournament to pre-fish, but it was slow. My boss had some guests in, so we took the boat back up to New Smyrna to try and catch his friends a few, but saw nothing. The day of the captains’ meeting, we ran the boat back to Fort Pierce, looking around the Cape where some other boats had b