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Capt. Corky Decker

Capt. Mark S. “Corky” Decker is an IGFA-certified captain, freelance writer and a proven world-class billfish guide. He grew up commercial fishing on the East Coast, prior to quitting college and relocating to Alaska to cash in on the booming fisheries of the 1980s. After almost 20 years of incredible success, it all suddenly came crashing down with a looming federal lawsuit for illegal fishing practices that changed a whole way of life — not just for him but for commercial fishermen in general.

 At age 40 Corky ran away to the South Pacific to start over, fishing for marlin and writing about the sport. Today, Corky's home port is Destin, Florida, where he lives with his New Zealand-born wife, Maggie. Corky recently completed his first novel To See A Green Flash and is currently working on a sequel to his personal memoir A Hardway to Make an Easy Living. In the Spring of 2012 Corky came full circle yet again and purchased a Maine harpoon boat to pursue the fish of his youth — giant bluefin tuna. He fishes out of Perkins Cove in Ogunquit, Maine, during the summer — where his passion for fishing began. To find out more about Corky and order one of his books, visit corkydecker.com.
Articles: 28

Capt. Corky Decker Articles

FishingHow To Fish

Bluefin By Harpoon: It’s a Maine Thing

  • corky-decker
  • Posted onApr 28, 2016 at 2:00 AM
  • 0 Comments
There are two places in the world where this fishery even exists and only a handful of fishermen alive are really professionals. There is only one place I know of where they have legendry harpooners; a small East coast harbor that has been the home …

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gear fish
gear fish
FishingFishing Gear

Tackle Junkie

  • corky-decker
  • Posted onOct 16, 2014 at 1:10 AM
  • 0 Comments
Tackle Junkie – Fishing Tackle I just knew this was going to be a bit of a worry, little profit margin problems, when all the cool new stuff ends up on my boats. I look at a new lure where my cost is only 7 …

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tuna fishing
tuna fishing
FishingSaltwater FishingTravel

Fish of Gold – Bluefin Tuna

  • corky-decker
  • Posted onAug 28, 2014 at 12:58 AM
  • 0 Comments
Gold Bluefin Tuna The North Atlantic giant bluefin migration, has changed over the past 20 years, the fish in years past were spending the summers in the Gulf of Maine to ‘The Rips’ off of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Today the main body stays offshore following the …

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inshore fishing
inshore fishing
FishingFishing LuresFishing TackleHow To Fish

In the poorest of conditions

  • corky-decker
  • Posted onAug 6, 2014 at 9:20 AM
  • 0 Comments
Daily thunderstorms, heavy showers, huge tides, full moon, no bait, muddy water, hotter than a California wildfire and water temperatures you would find on the equator made for the worse flats fishing we have had since January. Perfect! Been waiting for this, nobody is catching …

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freshwater bass
freshwater bass
FishingFreshwater Fishing

Bass Life – BD Outdoors Bass Fishing Documentary

  • corky-decker
  • Posted onJun 17, 2014 at 6:20 AM
  • 0 Comments
Bass Life – Florida Fishing Florida fishing, where else in the world can you leave a port pretty much anywhere in the State and go catch a blue marlin, cast a fly at a bonefish, legally gig a flounder, or turn inland and set bush …

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redfish tips
redfish tips
FishingFishing LuresFishing TackleSaltwater Fishing

Match the Hatch – Mullet

  • corky-decker
  • Posted onApr 22, 2014 at 1:25 AM
  • 0 Comments
We have all seen it, fish aggressively feeding, but on what? Throw every fly in the box at a rainbow, yell at both deckhands to change out every lure in the spread to get that blue to jump on, or watch your buddy catch fish …

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Testing the Penn Battle

  • corky-decker
  • Posted onApr 6, 2014 at 10:39 PM
  • 0 Comments
When I skied 100 days a year in Alaska I thought it would be perfect to own a ski shop, not so much to make a living but to be able to test every new pair of boards that came out that year. My write …

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FishingFishing GearFishing LuresFishing ReelsFishing TackleSaltwater Fishing

Match the Hatch

  • corky-decker
  • Posted onMar 17, 2014 at 11:41 PM
  • 0 Comments
Fly Fishing Match Hatch Being a fly fisherman since birth, I have spent my life trying to imitate ‘live bait’ From tying the perfect red salmon egg, for Alaskan big bow’s, to an eel fly to trick a free swimming cobia in the Panhandle, the …

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Franklin Park Conservatory Retired Plant
Franklin Park Conservatory Retired Plant
Fishing

Retired to the Plant

  • corky-decker
  • Posted onFeb 17, 2014 at 5:30 AM
  • 0 Comments
Franklin Park Conservatory Retired Plant If you know where to look, you can find this anywhere in the world, a down east harbor masters office, a ski shack at the base of the Matterhorn, or at a power plant water discharge channel in New Port …

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corky
corky
FishingFishing LuresSaltwater Fishing

Ono Master

  • corky-decker
  • Posted onFeb 3, 2014 at 1:25 AM
  • 0 Comments
With the exception of the Indian ocean and the East coast of Africa I have at one time or another fished the worlds water, meeting some incredible fishermen and learning methods and techniques from so many masters that I have used to build my book …

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FishingHow To FishSaltwater Fishing

Dorado in the Bag

  • corky-decker
  • Posted onJan 24, 2014 at 1:33 AM
  • 0 Comments
Whether you call them dorado, mahi mahi, or dolphin fish, this is one of the highest prized game fish found anywhere in the world. Providing an incredible fight on light tackle, launching to the heavens, screaming drags in long blistering runs and they dog it …

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sight fishing
sight fishing
FishingFishing ReelsFishing TackleHow To Fish

The Manning Brothers of Cobia

  • corky-decker
  • Posted onJan 14, 2014 at 3:59 AM
  • 0 Comments
Cobia fishing on the Panhandle is a unique fishery with extremely competitive season-long and weekend tournaments. It seems like every year the same boats and teams place in the top slots. “Full Pull” always catches the first fish of the year and is in the …

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Hunting

The Urban Hunter

  • corky-decker
  • Posted onJan 2, 2014 at 12:35 AM
  • 0 Comments
A business opportunity found us making a move to the Tampa Bay area a few months ago, the timing came right before hunting season. Finding a place to hang a couple of tree stands was a puzzle at best, so I started to ask a …

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Boat MaintenanceBoating Tips

Used Boat Buyers Guide

  • corky-decker
  • Posted onDec 16, 2013 at 5:45 AM
  • 0 Comments
One of my very best friends builds custom high end game boats, the boat building business in today’s economy is extremely hard, and new construction is at a standstill. There are also so many really incredible deals on used boats that you can get so …

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Hunting

Pig Time

  • corky-decker
  • Posted onNov 18, 2013 at 2:20 AM
  • 0 Comments
There are hunters, and then there is Jeff. In a comparison, I consider my self to be in that one percent that catches ninety-nine percent of the fish; Jeff is that one percent that puts whatever he hunts in the truck. Jeff Chesser owns Harbor …

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FishingTravel

Long Island, Bahamas

  • corky-decker
  • Posted onNov 5, 2013 at 4:05 AM
  • 0 Comments
They say Long Island in the Southern Bahamas group is the most scenic Island in all of the Bahamas; with its white sandy beaches on the southwest coast to world famous Deans blue hole (the worlds deepest at over 600 feet) 5 miles northwest of …

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fishing remote
fishing remote
FishingTravel

Tonga Travel

  • corky-decker
  • Posted onOct 22, 2013 at 4:30 AM
  • 0 Comments
There are very few untapped marlin grounds remaining; the few remote places left to us require a mother ship and a game boat with some serious legs to fish for success. With this mode of exploration you are going in blind, learning the waters as …

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offshore fishing
offshore fishing
FishingSaltwater Fishing

Offshore Florida Panhandle! Monster Tuna

  • corky-decker
  • Posted onOct 15, 2013 at 4:02 AM
  • 0 Comments
We all have our own favorite seasons and here in the beautiful, plentiful, Panhandle we have a lot to choose from! No matter if it is red drum in the bay or the first blue marlin showing up in the Gulf, each month seems to …

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bay florida
bay florida
FishingSaltwater Fishing

Bountiful Bay

  • corky-decker
  • Posted onOct 2, 2013 at 4:21 AM
  • 0 Comments
It’s ironic but sometimes it takes something bad to happen to open our eyes to a different path…In the spring of 2010 the disastrous Gulf oil spill shut down more and more water every day. We Panhandle fisherman needed to find alternate ways to use …

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Hunting

Hard Labor Creek Plantation

  • corky-decker
  • Posted onSep 18, 2013 at 11:51 PM
  • 0 Comments
In 1988, just three years out of college, 28-year-old Ted Everett moved to Chipley, Florida to manage his family’s 5,000-acre property. His dad predicted it would be about three months before Ted would be back in Georgia. But, that never happened. Ted had a plan …

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Hunting

Woodies in the Pan

  • corky-decker
  • Posted onSep 3, 2013 at 12:00 AM
  • 0 Comments
It is that time of year again, early wood duck season! Duck hunting in 80-degree weather, gators and bugs, makes for some weird, non-traditional hunting, but for that one week in September I’m in the woods. We are really lucky to have so many opportunities …

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harpoon, maine, fishermen, lost, rescue, suspended
harpoon, maine, fishermen, lost, rescue, suspended
FishingFishing EventsOffshore Fishing

Bluefin Tuna Legend Lost

  • corky-decker
  • Posted onAug 26, 2013 at 11:25 PM
  • 0 Comments
Corky Decker: Friend lost Billy McIntyre was a living legend among New England bluefin tuna harpooners. We grew up together in the 1970’s and early 80’s, we were the Perkins Cove rats of Ogunquit, Maine, the wild ones, the generation that fished hard and stayed …

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FishingSaltwater FishingUncategorized

Modern Day Monsters

  • corky-decker
  • Posted onJul 22, 2013 at 3:31 AM
  • 0 Comments
We all dream of breaking records, with billfish it seems everyone’s goal is a grander, well lets take this one step further; The “one off’s”. In the ‘Old Man and The Sea’, Hemingway’s 1954 classic; his fish in the story was a massive blue marlin. …

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FishingFishing LineFishing LuresFishing ReelsFishing RodsHow To FishSaltwater Fishing

Wahoo on the Fly

  • corky-decker
  • Posted onJul 1, 2013 at 12:07 AM
  • 0 Comments
A blistering first run that can challenge the drag system on even the largest marlin reels; some expert’s say it is the hardest, fastest first run of any game fish, period. A mouth full of razor blades that will cut though most leader materials and …

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