White Marlin Open Photos

It’s been an exciting week here in Ocean City, with over $2 million in prize money about to be distributed tomorrow afternoon! Three hundred boats from up and down the eastern seaboard, with more than 1500 anglers from all over the country, fished the waters from Norfolk to Wilmington canyons, brought in record numbers of fish. We saw the second largest blue marlin in tournament history, caught on Tuesday. We saw a local boy, a man who met his wife at Harbour Island and proposed to her here at the scales in 2001, catch a fish worth almost $1 million. We saw a dolphin miss a state record by half a pound. For the second year in a row, we have three white marlin over 80 pounds (last year being the first year in 30 years for that to occur), and for the first time in tournament history, the top three dolphin are all over 50 pounds. Come back starting in January for information about the 2009 tournament. Next year, fishing starts on August 3!