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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. — Picture this. You and your crew are competing in a fishing tournament and while out at sea, you all catch a big one. And I mean a big one! You all jump for joy! This is it!

(CNN) — The captain of Sensation, the fishing boat that lost out on over $3 million in earnings when tournament officials disqualified its 619.4-pound blue marlin ... with this fish, we knew ...