New York Granders Angling Club

Home to the largest metropolitan area in the U.S. at just under 20 million people, it was only fitting that the Granders name would represent New York. Referring to a large blue marlin weighing in at more than 1,000 pounds, a grander is the sport fisherman’s bucket list fish. The largest grander ever caught off the East Coast of the continental US was caught in New York by 19-year-old angler Bill Sweedler Jr. in 1986. That nearly 40-year old record marlin weighed in at 1,174.5 pounds. The Granders iconography is a circle hook with an extended barb to make a “G,” while the black, white and light electric blue colors have multiple meanings: Bright to signify the lights of New York, “the city that never sleeps,” the color is also similar to the verdigris, or oxidized copper exterior of the Statue of Liberty that has stood as a bastion of freedom in New York Harbor since 1886.

Meet The Crew

Captain
Evan Pickrell

From Jupiter, FL, Evan Pickrell has grown up on the water targeting fish in everything from flats boats, center consoles to large sportfish boats.
Angler
Dusty Adinolfe

A Harvard-graduate entrepreneur and philanthropist, Adinolfe fell in love with sport fishing from the first bite.
Angler
Shelby Callison

From Georgia, Shelby Callison moved to South Florida after college and has won multiple top female angler honors in sailfish tournaments across South Florida.
Angler
Maddy Hazlett Rivers

When not fishing, Maddy is a tournament director, even founding her own "Sailfish Sweethearts" women's tournament.
Angler
Kelly Young

Kelly Young can track and hunt anything with a pulse as an accomplished angler, freediver, spearfisher and game hunter.
Angler
Kodi Smith Austin

Based in North Carolina, Kodi has fished for a number of sportfishing boats and charters across the Atlantic and Latin America.

Front Office

Dusty Adinolfe

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