White Marlin Open Photos

What a tournament! Great fishing and huge crowds made for an exciting 37th Annual White Marlin Open. Thanks to all of the participants and spectators that made this WMO a memorable one!

Trey Little on the “Scandalous” just brought in a 77.5 pound tuna good for first place. Trey also caught the 790 pound blue that is currently in second place. Way to represent Texas!

The scales are open for the final day of the 37th Annual White Marlin Open. It has been an exciting week with a 97.5 pound white, a 1010.5 pound blue and a record number of fish weighed on Monday. Historically, Friday has been a game changer – will that be the case again this year?

Several whites have been brought to the scales tonight but none was able to break into the prize money. The 97.5 pound white and 1010.5 pound blue are going to be tough to beat. John Sonner on the Titan 62 brought in a 71.5 pound tuna that tied for third place. Still no qualifying shark or wahoo.

Ocean City local Brian Roberts caught a huge 97.5 pound white marlin aboard the Shelly II. This is the second largest white marlin in White Marlin Open history! The first time Brian fished in the White Marlin Open, he was on a 28 foot boat that sank. This is a much better memory!

Let it Ride out of Fair Haven, NJ just weighed a grander!! The second 1,000 plus pound blue marlin in WMO history was caught by John Kontos of Crested Butte, CO. John has been fishing with his father for years but has never seen anything this big! 1,010.5 pounds to be exact. This one is going to be really hard to beat.

The action from Monday will be hard to beat but “Let it Ride” is going to try. They are waiting for the scales to open so they can weigh a blue marlin – and it looks like a BIG one! Stay tuned…..

After over 7 hours of weighing fish, the scales have finally closed and the first day of fishing is in the books. Over 60 fished were weighed today, setting a White Marlin Open record. What will tomorrow hold?

After waiting for nearly 2 hours to weigh their fish, the Scandalous has treated the crowd to a big blue marlin, 790 pounds to be exact. Now that’s a fish worth waiting for.