Sport Fishing
Destin, Florida
30°23′N · 86°30′W
The Vessel
Built For Blue Water.
A 64-foot custom Viking convertible — built to chase blue marlin past the continental shelf and run home for cocktails.
The mark on the dock.
The brushed-steel dock box at the gangway carries the Big Daddy's mark in cursive — the same script that runs across the transom. Rods, tackle, and gear stowed; everything has its place before the lines come off.
Built to chase blue marlin past the continental shelf — and run home for cocktails.— From the logbook
After the sun goes down.
The fish don't stop biting at sundown — they just change shifts. Anchored under the lit platforms past the shelf, the rods get a second life: yellowfin on the deeps, swordfish in the dark column. The dog stays up too.
Trophy Catches
Every Cast,
A Story.
Six seasons. Hundreds of nautical miles. The ones we kept, the ones we let go — each fish a sunrise we left the dock for.
Dorado season opens.
Bull dorado off the shelf — the cockpit dog supervising the deck. The yellowfin came later in the season; the Rodeo leaderboard followed.
And then the tuna came.
Yellowfin · 68.2 lbs · Big Daddy's at the berth, Destin Harbor. Second place at the Destin Fishing Rodeo.
On The Water
Frames from the logbook.
Moments from a season on the water — the latest spreads sit on top, the older frames follow in the logbook below.
Home Port
Destin,
Florida.
Known as the world's luckiest fishing village, Destin sits on one of the most prolific sport-fishing grounds in the Gulf of Mexico. Big Daddy's calls this port home.