Big Rock

66th Big Rock Tournament underway

June 14, 2024 Ryan Henkel

Lines are in the water as the Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament officially kicked off Monday morning in the Crystal Coast off Morehead City with its 66th iteration. Anglers from far and wide have converged […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Hurricanes’ Svechnikov provides supplies to Boys & Girls Club

June 3, 2020 Cory Lavalette

RALEIGH — Hurricanes winger Andrei Svechnikov can’t wait to get back on the ice and resume the 2019-20 NHL season, but he knows the months-long coronavirus pandemic has impacted others as well. That led the […]