Marlin March 2024

As we look forward to a new season of sport fishing, we’re excited to bring you some positive news. The first is that Dave Morel is rejoining Marlin as director of sales. Morel was with Bonnier, the publisher of Marlin, for 18 years before shifting to a career in boat sales; he returns with a wealth of knowledge from both sides of the table and is one of the top professionals in the industry. Morel will support Marlin publisher/vice president of sales Natasha Lloyd, who heads up our sales efforts across all channels, including print, digital, event sponsorship, e-news, social media, video and more. If you want to reach an incredibly engaged, high-net-worth audience, this is the way to do it. We have also expanded our emphasis on Marlin Expeditions.…

editor@marlinmag.com IN MEMORIAM: HARRY GLAH A fixture in Golfito, Costa Rica, for the last few decades, Harry Glah was one of those unique individuals who make up the rich fabric of the sport-fishing world. He graduated from Pennsylvania’s Villanova University in 1967, enlisted in the US Army, and spent some time in Southeast Asia, along with many other young Americans of his generation. After the service, Glah hit it big on Wall Street and spent a successful career working for Morgan Stanley and the Royal Bank of Canada, but he always kept the ponytail he’d sported for years after the military. “My first real offshore rig was a 39 Topaz Royale,” Glah once told me. “At the time, I was inspired by Tred Barta, so we used to chase the…

SAIL ON GLASS Guatemala is known as one of the world’s most prolific fisheries, especially for Pacific sailfish. The weather also frequently cooperates, offering up calm conditions, especially in the early mornings. Photographer Lacey Hagler captured this sailfish released by junior angler Hamilton “Hammy” Sloan, fishing with his father, Hamilton Sloan, and Capt. Fin Gaddy aboard Intensity with Capt. Mike Sheeder at the helm. LOCATION Puerto San Jose, Guatemala TECH SPECS CAMERA: Canon 7D Mark II LENS: Canon EF 70-200mm ISO: 200 APERTURE: f/4.0 SPEED: 1/1600 sec…

Born and raised on Great Abaco in the Bahamas, Kevie Thomas has always had a love of the sea and an innate Bahamian passion for hospitality toward those visiting her island home. Thanks to a woman named Penny Turtle, a longtime coordinator at Boat Harbour Marina in the 1980s, Thomas’ first job was working the front desk at the marina, doing manual billing and helping boaters come and go. She rose through the ranks at Abaco Beach Resort, eventually becoming the rooms-division manager, while also surviving a direct hit and the subsequent devastation wreaked by Hurricane Dorian in 2019. Today, she is one of the most recognizable and welcoming personalities in our colorful world of sport fishing.…

What are your favorite parts of the job at Abaco Beach Resort? We have a lot of repeat visitors, and it’s always fun watching the kids grow up over the years. Part of it is the culture of the Bahamas—we are very friendly and hospitable. We love bringing people into our homes and seeing them enjoying our islands and the natural resources. At the [Fort Lauderdale] boat show, I saw a lady I had first met at the Bertram-Hatteras Shootout many years ago when she was just a young girl. Now she had a family of her own and was looking forward to bringing them back to the Abacos. Did you grow up fishing? I used to fish a lot more when I was younger, but now it seems like…

The angling spectacle known as the Silver Sailfish Derby continues to challenge some of the finest captains and crews at the height of sailfish season in early January off Palm Beach, Florida, just as it has done for the past eight decades. The Silver Sailfish Derby was established by the historic West Palm Beach Fishing Club in January 1935, and while the event is structured quite differently today, it remains the oldest-running sailfish tournament in the world. The only three years the Derby didn’t run was during World War II between 1943 and 1945, when tournament boats were used to scout for German U-boats off the Florida coast. At one time, famous American author and avid angler Ernest Hemingway was a Derby trophy sponsor. The Derby is also credited with…