The Atlantic blue marlin: a perfect mix of strength, attitude and pure beauty. “If there’s a cooler fish,” Richard Gibson says, “I haven’t found it.”
Gibson’s love affair with blue marlin began in St. Thomas in the late 1970s. He had landed on the island sort of by accident. After graduating from Morehead State University in Kentucky with a degree in photojournalism, he applied to nearly every daily newspaper in his home state of Florida but hardly got a sniff. Dejected, Gibson visited the Caribbean island to see a friend and recharge. Turns out that St. Thomas had an award-winning daily newspaper, The Virgin Islands Daily News.
“I was pretty good at applying by then, so I decided to try my luck, went in and applied,” says
