offshore fishing

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 […]

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 […]

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Ship runs aground near area that could have WWII ordnance

December 13, 2019 The Associated Press

MOREHEAD CITY — A fishing vessel has run aground along the North Carolina coast near an area that potentially has military ordnance from World War II. The U.S. Coast Guard said in a statement that […]