The Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament is over, but the controversy surrounding its final results is not. The owner of the fishing boat Sensation, which had its 619.4-pound catch disqualified on Sunday morning due to […]
For just the second time since 2014, a blue marlin weighing under 500 pounds came away as the big winner at the Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament — even though a bigger fish was weighed […]
After 254 of the Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament’s 271 competing boats motored out from Morehead City on Tuesday’s second day of the competition, just 14 headed offshore Wednesday due to a small craft advisory […]
MOREHEAD CITY — The Big Rock Foundation broke out the giant checks and the lie detectors this past weekend as its 64th annual Blue Marlin Tournament officially came to a close. Two hundred sixty-six boats […]
MOREHEAD CITY — If you went back in time to 1957 and asked locals whether you could catch billfish off the coast of North Carolina, they’d probably tell you it was nothing more than idle […]
Michael Jordan’s 80-foot Catch 23 made waves at the Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament and in the national media on Tuesday, boating a 442.3-pound blue marlin that ended up being the ninth-biggest catch of the […]
The Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament, a nine-day fishing tournament highlighted by the Monday through Saturday quest to catch the biggest blue marlin off the Crystal Coast, is underway for the 62nd straight year. According […]
MOREHEAD CITY—Good things come to those who wait, as Top Dog proved with an overtime win at the 61st annual Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament. The Maryland-based boat was one of five competitors with a […]
MOREHEAD CITY — If we’ve learned anything in the first day of competition at Big Rock, it’s that the marlins have been eating well. The 61st annual Big Rock Tournament is in full swing, and […]
Lauren Dudley doesn’t think of herself as a competitive fisherman. “I’m not, really,” the Washington, N.C., native said. “My husband (Stuart) does it a lot. I had fished at Big Rock with him a couple […]
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