La Romana, Dom. Rep.

9th  May 2013

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From February to current date more than 500 Blue Marlins have been released in Marina Casa de Campos Fishing Season.

Around 20 international fishing vessels took part in this year’s fishing season at Marina Casa de Campo and more are arriving to extend the fishing season until June.

This year we have the presence of the traditional Therapy, Fa-La-Me, Blue Heaven, Alican, Betsy, Chach, Liquid Gold, C’est La Vie, Ambush, Caroline, Chasin’ Tail, Shark Byte, Canyon Gear, Uno Más. New boats experienced a lot of action this season such as Impulse, Nemesis, Shoe, Double Barrel, Old Reliable, Over Easy, amongst others.

This season Marina has the honour to count with the presence of captains and anglers of international prestige among which are Ed Thompson, Rich Barret, Frank Rodriguez, Rob Moore, Robert “Butch” Cox, Tim Richardson, Albert Miller, Robert “Cujo” Brinkmeyer, John Cochrane and Mike Brauser inter alia.

The boats fishing this season have had moments of a lot of action in the high seas getting to release up to 11 billfish and seeing 12 in just one day of fishing as was the case for Caroline on the 24th of April of this year.

The average released per day is 7 Blue Marlins in the 73 days that have formally gone by since the start of the season.