Sponsor Message With the large fish ruled out, first place went to Sushi, a boat that brought in a blue marlin weighing 484.5 pounds. It won more than $2.7 million, falling short of the $739,500 ...

The president of the Big Rock Blue ... the marlin had two significant chunks taken out of it on the underside and its tail. After consulting experts, the tournament disqualified the fish ...

“Weigh that fish!” The crowd shouted as the massive blue marlin swung on the hook. Judges and fishing enthusiasts stared at the catch, waiting for the end of the 65th Big Rock Blue Marlin ...

We won the tournament. We caught the biggest fish,” he said. “As they say, put that in your pipe and smoke it.” The blue marlin, known for its spear-like bill, can grow to be 14 feet long ...

Blue Marlin is disqualified due to mutilation caused by a shark or other marine animal,” the tourney officials wrote in a statement Sunday. “It was deemed that the fish was mutilated before it ...

the fish made one final dive, going down to 1,000 feet, trying to get away. Then the line went heavy and stopped moving. McCoy, who has caught about 15 blue marlins in his life, said the marlin ...

Sixty-six teams competed, but only nine of them weighed in a blue marlin and that was what the people were there to see. “I like that there’s like really, really big fish,” said one young ...

But it was a blue marlin that made history that evening. The tournament-winning fish netted the top team a purse of $6.2 million, which represents the largest payout in fishing tournament history, ...

This article originally appeared on The Destin Log: Destin's fish tales of 2024: All the pics, from big bluefin tuna to blue marlin and more ...