Contango Big Game Sport Fishing

Great Mixed Bag Catches in the Bahamas

admin — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 05:08:00 +0000

Contango has been fishing in the Exuma island chain in the Bahamas and seeing some great mixed bag fishing resulting in a wide range of specials including white marlin, blue marlin, yellowfin tuna & wahoo.

Below is Hunter’s first billfish – released live, well and ready for another battle.

Hunter's first marlin

The Crew on Wednesday

Overview: Isla Mujeres Sailfishing Tournament

admin — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:05:58 +0000

Capt. Daryl Brower and gang aboard the Contango released 69 sails in 2 days to take 2nd place in the Isla Mujeres Island Time Fishing Festival!

On behalf of the Island Time Fishing Festival and Help A Special Child, we would like to thank you all very much for your participation and donation in the 2012 Island Time Fishing Festival.

The tournament was once again a great success.

A total of 581 sailfish were caught with a 1004 bites, this was world class action.

The winning boat in the sailfish category was Blue Moon with a total of 85 releases, 2nd was Contango with 69 releases and 3rd was Broken Tackle with 65 releases

Top Angler was Alex Peebles on the Blue Moon with 29 releases, 2nd Tommy Farella on the Blue Moon with 28 releases and 3rd was Justin on Broken Tackle with 27 releases.

A total of 22 fish were caught in the Heaviest Fish category this consisted of 10 Dorado, 6 Tuna, 5 Wahoo and 1 Mackerel.

The winning boat with the largest Wahoo was Country Girl with a 26lb fish, Zubie with the largest Tuna 19.61lbs, Broken Tackle with the largest Mackerel 10.44lbs and Obsession with the largest Dorado 50.23lbs

Tanner Cline once again won the Junior Angler Trophy for the 3rd year with 16 releases.

The gross income for the festival is around $80,000USD with some money still not collected.

Thank you all once again for your participation

Great to see you all again, hope you enjoyed your time.

Regards
Tony & Mim Gallagher

Fishing on the Contango – Isla Mujeres, Mexico

admin — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:29:15 +0000

Fishing off Isla Mujeres, Mexico on the Contango.

Fishing on the Contango – Charleston, SC to Palm Beach, FL

admin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:22:32 +0000

Footage from the Contago from the Charleston, SC to Palm Beach, FL portion on its trip from Charleston, SC to Isla Mujeres, Mexico.

Dave’s First Sailfish

admin — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:30:24 +0000

Dave Milligan’s first sailfish caught off Isla Mujeres, Mexico on the Contango!

Sailfish Hitting Dredge off Palm Beach, FL

admin — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:15:13 +0000

We stopped to fish off Palm Beach, FL on our way to Isla Mujeres, Mexico, this is some underwater video of a sailfish hitting the dredge and then some fighting action. Check back for more updates from Mexico soon.

Isla Mujeres 2012

Walt Kuhn — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:33:24 +0000

Contango will be back in Isla Mujeres in January, sailfishing. We will be posting daily reports, video, and pics. Should be a fun season down there !!

Underwater Video: Fishing for White Marlin in the Wilmington Canyon

Walt Kuhn — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:02:11 +0000

Contango fished the Wilmington Canyon, Saturday July 23rd, 2011. Conditions were sporty in the morning, but we ended up with three white marlin for the day. The real highlight though was having Brady Lybarger onboard along with his “dredge cam”. He got this awesome underwater footage of yellowfin tuna and white marlin chasing the dredge and even jumped in for one of our white releases.

Washington – Monday 8/2

Walt Kuhn — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:11:34 +0000

Fished the 100 fathom line of the Washington canyon on Monday, water was pretty blended, caught 1 yellow fin and 2 white marlin.

Nice day all in all!

Sat in the Poorman’s – 7/31

Walt Kuhn — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:10:14 +0000

Fished the 1000 fathom of the Poorman’s canyon, after catching 2 nice yellowfin on the 30 line, we managed to catch a quad of white marlin. All fish put on a nice display.

Contango !!