Task Force Black, Task Force Blue, and the challenge that decides who joins. An inside look at the future of offshore adventure.
Sling Reel was never meant to be only a product. From the start, the vision was an ecosystem — equipment, technology, records, content, and community, all reinforcing one another. The Offshore Team is where that community becomes a brotherhood: a network of anglers, explorers, and adventurers united by a passion for offshore fishing and innovation.
It is built around two divisions and a challenge that decides who earns a place. Here is how it comes together.
Two task forces, one standard
The team is organized into two divisions, each with a distinct mission. They are different in focus but held to the same standard of skill, preparation, and respect for the water.
Together they cover the full spectrum of offshore pursuit — from the proving ground where anglers are developed to the deep water where records are chased.
Task Force Black
Task Force Black is the tip of the spear. It runs the longest ranges, targets trophy species, and pursues the catches that rewrite the record books. Membership here is reserved for the most experienced and capable anglers on the team.
These are the expeditions where the Sling Reel platform and the Sling Scope 360 are pushed hardest — and where founding records are most likely to be set.
Task Force Blue
Task Force Blue is the proving ground. It focuses on development and training: bringing passionate anglers up to speed, refining technique, and field-testing gear and prototypes in real conditions.
Blue is where the next generation of the team is built. It is also where the feedback loop with our engineering effort lives — the lessons learned on these trips inform the platform itself.
The Offshore Team Challenge
You do not buy your way onto the Offshore Team. You earn it. The Offshore Team Challenge is a performance-based path: a series of competitions and events where anglers test their skills and demonstrate what they can do on the water.
Top performers are drafted into a task force as founding members. It is competitive by design, because the team is meant to represent the best of what the ecosystem can produce — and because earning a place makes the place worth holding.
Charters, expeditions, and records
Membership is about access as much as recognition. The team is built around charter programs and record expeditions — purpose-planned trips designed around real world-record opportunities, targeting the right species on the right grounds in the right conditions.
Every trip is also a content opportunity. With the Sling Scope 360 capturing the action in 360°, the team's adventures become proof, story, and inspiration for the wider community all at once.
More than a membership
Joining the Offshore Team is less like buying a club card and more like earning a place on a crew. Members train together, fish together, and push one another to get better — and they get early access to the gear, the experiences, and the record opportunities that define the ecosystem.
There is recognition in it, too. Standout catches and milestones are celebrated across the community, and the achievements logged by members help write the early history of the platform. The team is as much about belonging as it is about competing.
A feedback loop with the gear
The Offshore Team is not just a community — it is a testing program. Every expedition puts the Sling Reel platform and the Sling Scope 360 to work in real conditions, and what the crews learn flows straight back into how the system is refined.
That loop benefits everyone. Members get a direct hand in shaping the gear they rely on, and the wider community gets equipment that has been proven where it counts: offshore, under load, on real fish.
Future expansion
The Offshore Team is just getting started. Operations begin at a flagship base, with new destinations on the roadmap and international growth in the plans. As the team grows, so do the waters it explores and the records within reach.
Founding members hear about new locations first, and they help shape where the team goes next. If you want to be part of the beginning, this is the moment — the team you join early is the team you help define.
