On this episode of the podcast we sit down  with our friend Captain Drake Sawyer and his wife and first mate Katie Coeckelenbergh- Sawyer. Drake and Katie run a private sportfish program; On Location, a 57' Capps Sportfish, with a home port of Port Aransas, Texas.

Katie, Drake, Paul Knowles (owner and angler) and the the rest of the On Location  crew, travel across the globe fun fishing and tournament fishing for billfish and tuna. Their most recent adventure was targeting monster blue marlin, big eye tuna, and giant bluefin tuna in Madeira and La Gomera (Canary Islands).

We have known Drake and Katie for over a decade now, and have had the pleasure of fishing with them in Costa Rica, Prince Edward Island, and our local waters off of Massachusetts.
Drake began his fishing career as a party boat mate when he was 16 years old, and at just 29, Drake accomplished 1,000 blue marlin releases and was featured as one of In the Bite Magazine's "Young Guns of Sportfishing."

This conversation was awesome, and we covered a wide variety of topics and stories. Drake is an extremely experienced captain for his age. He talks a lot about blue marlin tactics, his role and responsibilities as a young captain, and gives advice for mates and captains developing in their career. Katie tells a few epic tales about heartbreak fish, her role as first mate aboard the boat, and they both discuss what it was like to ship a custom sport boat back and fourth across the Atlantic.

We hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did!

Stay Tight,
-Bryan and Taylor

Topics Covered:

• Running a private sportfishing program as husband and wife
• Fishing pet peeves
• Achieving 1,000+ blue marlin releases
• Most common misconceptions about running and operating a custom game-boat
• COVID impacts on sportfish travel
• Logistics on shipping a custom sportboat across the Atlantic Ocean
• Fishing globally on "On Location"
• Costa Rica FADs fishing
• Bait and switch fishing for blue marlin and sailfish
• Fishing for giant blue marlin and bigeye tuna in Madeira
• Multi-species fishing in the Gulf of Mexico
• Blue marlin battle tactics and how to get them up if they sound
• Giant bluefin tuna in La Gomera/ the Canary Islands
• Words of wisdom for young captains and mates building their career

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