Operator/Captain, "Caliente" - Huntington Beach, CA/Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
With 32 years of fishing experience, David is a well known writer, seminar speaker, radio guest, and private boat skipper / expert on offshore fishing for marlin, tuna and sharks. He has worked as a professional marlin fishing deckhand at Lizard Island - Australia, The Bay of Islands - New Zealand, Cabo San Lucas - Mexico on multi-day sport boats out of San Diego as well as tournament boats out of Alabama and South Carolina. David has also fished as an angler in many of the top billfish spots in the world including Panama, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Belize, The Bahamas, U.S.V.I., South Africa and Thailand.

He currently spends most of his time fishing aboard his 38-foot custom sport fisher CALIENTE out of Huntington Harbour, CA and his 40 foot Cabo CALIENTE out of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. In Mexico he targets striped, blue, and black marlin and big yellowfin tuna from Cabo to Magdalena Bay. Locally he fishes the offshore banks and islands from Santa Cruz Island to San Martin Island out to 150 miles offshore pursuing yellowtail, tuna, marlin and sharks.

He is consistently ranked as one of the top tagging captains for the N.M.F.S. Billfish Tagging program in Baja, Mexico and is an active tagger in The Billfish Foundation and California D.F.G. Shark tagging programs. In 2000 he was selected and acted as an observer for the U.S.V.I. – St. Thomas Boy Scout Tournament. In 2001 he has become actively involved with the N.M.F.S. in gathering DNA samples of billfish. Also in 2001, he was appointed Chairman of the West Coast Advisory Council for The Billfish Foundation.