Minutes ago the largest blue marlin in the 52-year history of the Big Rock tournament was weighed – an 883-pounder caught on the Citation.
Was otherwise a decent day for the tournament…the numbers…
92 boats on the water (151 entered)
Blue marlin – 4 (3 released, 1 weighed)
White marlin – 3
Spearfish – 1
Sailfish – 2
Hatchet marlin – 1
Tournament continues for the next five days – boats fish four of the six days.
For more information on the Big Rock tournament go to thebigrock.com.
7 Comments
nick
why didn’t they let it go?
Tinto
An 800+ pound fish, that isn’t going to be eaten, has been killed … why?
Babington
@Tinto and Nick — I agree with you but for $318,000 I would of killed it too!
ben
tournaments are kinda funny about handing out 3 0r 4 hundred g’s based on your estimate of how much it weighed
John
Some tournaments will take fish of size. Big Rock’s rules allow a fish 400+ pounds, or one whose short measurement runs 110″.
I’m with you – would rather no fish be killed – and we do debate when and how many dead fish to post on the site. Our conclusion is that if it’s in a tournament and is a noteworthy catch (this one was the record in 52 years of Big Rock fishing), or if it’s a fish that goes greater than 1,000 pounds, we’ll post information on it and potentially pictures of it.
I have enormous sympathy for your position and share it…we generally don’t celebrate killing marlin at all.
Maverick
You get a lot of respect from me for writing these helpful arltices.
Royce
The 883 lb. marlin died at sea while in fight. The trick was to save the fish . Try to pull 883 on 100lb test line without breaking off and lose the whole thing.
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