10,000th Tagged

[Marlinhunter2]

10,000 Tagged

Well folks I have reached a milestone of 10,305 billfish tagged, It'll take some doing to beat that, unless they fish in Guatemala. I hope the young guys set there sights on this and have the good fortune to have the backing of there owner's like I did. Ricardo Alfaro owner of the Gypsy my first full time job here. Bill Gooch ,Sam Combs ,Todd Martin and Bryan O'Dell, these were all owners of the Captain Hook and also Jim Turner owner of Casa Vieja Lodge who gave me a job after I got fired from the other place, I almost forgot Joan Vernon who donated over 1,000 tags thru the Miami Billfish Tournment.

This number does not include the Atlantic billfish and Giant Tuna's from 1970 thru 1988, this all has been done in Guatemala. Since 1994 when Tim Choate who had enough faith in me to give me a new start.

My special thanks, to my mates who are really the one's who took this serious, and deserve the lions share of the credit - thanks Haron, Jose, Eddie and Sammy.

I'm not going to stop tagging I tag 1 fish per person unless they care to donate to The Billfish Foundation, the price of a Tag is $2.50 - I think my owners have donated enough. Another special thanks to my clients who caught them all.

Good Fishing,


Capt. Ron Hamlin
Aboard the "Finest Kind"

[Fritz]

Its obvious congratulations and admiration for your career are in order. Just a couple of questions- Does it ever get old? Do you ever get tired of looking at blue water?

[LuckyDrew]

Way to go Captain, hopefully the boys south of you start to release a few more too. Guatemala looks like a fun place to visit, one of these days...

[Captain Fred Archer]

Ron,

Heartiest congratulations to one of the best and most conservation oriented billfish anglers - and anglers period - ever. I have followed and admired your exploits and been inspired by them since the earliest days. There aren't enough words or the room here for me to say all that I want to about you. All that I can say is...

Well done, Captain...well done!

Website fredarchersworldoffishing.com

[SeaBiscuit]

Congratulations captain Ron and thank you for all you've done for our sport!
Please drop a line next time you are headed Carolina way to see your favorite boat builder and the drinks are on me!
SeaBiscuit

[Ace1st]

Congratulations Capt. Met you a couple weeks ago while fishing the RELEASE with Nicho. Good Luck on your next 10,000!

[rarhomes]

Congrats Cap,

That is an unbelievable accomplishment. Not to many people will ever see 1000 let alone 10,000.

I always wanted to say I caught over a 1000 bonefish on fly but that may take two lifetimes at the rate I'm going.

Good luck and we will be waiting to here about your 20,000th.
release.

Capt Rick

[Ravens16]

Congrats Captain, 10k HOLY CRAP

[clt_capt]

Congrats - Quite an amazing accomplishment!!! - Here's to the next 10,000

[fishduck]

Congrats capt.

That's one record I will not even come close to breaking. I'd have a better chance breaking a record for eating ballyhoo or sailing around the world (im not a sailor, If it dosn't have a motor i'm lost).