Sponsor Message With the large fish ruled out, first place went to Sushi, a boat that brought in a blue marlin weighing 484.5 pounds. It won more than $2.7 million, falling short of the $739,500 ...

The president of the Big Rock Blue ... the marlin had two significant chunks taken out of it on the underside and its tail. After consulting experts, the tournament disqualified the fish ...

“Weigh that fish!” The crowd shouted as the massive blue marlin swung on the hook. Judges and fishing enthusiasts stared at the catch, waiting for the end of the 65th Big Rock Blue Marlin ...

The captain of Sensation, the fishing boat that lost out on over $3 million in earnings when tournament officials disqualified its 619.4-pound blue marlin due ... with this fish, we knew we ...

and then the team had to wait three hours until the fish was declared the winner. It beat last year’s winning blue marlin by more than 100 pounds, and surpassed the record payout of $4.45 ...

Sixty-six teams competed, but only nine of them weighed in a blue marlin and that was what the people were there to see. “I like that there’s like really, really big fish,” said one young ...

In addition to the prize money for the two heaviest blue marlin, anglers also can win $63,800 prizes for being the release leader on each of three fish days. The tournament concept was fine-tuned ...

But it was a blue marlin that made history that evening. The tournament-winning fish netted the top team a purse of $6.2 million, which represents the largest payout in fishing tournament history, ...

Gorin pushed the drag up and palmed the reel to plane the fish upward. Eventually, the blue marlin surfaced dead. Once it was safely on the deck of the DayMaker, roughly an hour and forty minutes ...

Orange Beach Marina / Facebook Houston, Texas angler Scooter Anderson was fishing aboard the Alabama-based, 55-foot Viking offshore boat Best Trait when he caught the largest blue marlin ever recorded ...