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July 11, 2025

Big Rock Tournament

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Local vessel’s tagged marlin wins 2022-23 Great Marlin Race

November 8, 2023 Ryan Henkel

A local vessel has made International Game Fish Association Great Marlin Race history thanks to the blue marlin it tagged in 2022. Waste Knot, a 67-foot sportfisher owned by the Poole family, tagged the marlin […]

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Boat that had Big Rock catch disqualified files protest

June 22, 2023 North State Journal Staff

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 […]

Article

Big Rock ends in controversy

June 19, 2023 North State Journal Staff

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 […]

Article

Big Rock reaches midway point

June 14, 2023 North State Journal Staff

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 […]

Article

Mercenaria wins more than $3.4M at Big Rock

June 22, 2022 Griffin Daughtry

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 […]

Article

Big Rock tournament underway in Morehead City

June 15, 2022 Griffin Daughtry

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 […]

Article

Pelagic Hunter II wins Big Rock

June 14, 2020 North State Journal Staff

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 […]

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Big Rock tournament off to fast start; Jordan’s boat lands 442-pound marlin

June 10, 2020 North State Journal Staff

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 […]

Sports

Big, hungry marlin lead to wild first day at Big Rock

June 12, 2019 Shawn Krest

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 […]

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Honey Hush holds on for Big Rock win

June 20, 2018 Cory Lavalette

The crew of the Honey Hush landed the first 500-pound fish of the 2018 Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament, but missed out on the Winner-Take-All bonus worth more than half a million dollars because the […]

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