Even though the Viking 62 team enjoyed an enormous lead throughout the 57th annual Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament, the final hours proved a bit agonizing until the contest was finally over.
Viking 62, captain Brian Komer, Riviera Beach, Fla., and angler Earle Hall, Hampton, Va., took the tournament’s inaugural lead early Monday when they showed up at the scales with a 680-pound blue marlin. Their catch was big enough to win 26 of the past 30 Big Rock competitions, but that didn’t make the final hours of the tournament go by any faster.
“It’s by far the longest week of my life,” Komer admitted after Viking 62 was finally declared the winner. “Hooking the fish 15 minutes into the first day, I knew we had a long week ahead us. We still went out there, stuck with our game plan and we didn’t let up. It worked out just great.”
But not without a late tournament scare.
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The boat Shenandoah that came in 5th or 6th belongs to a guy I know. They were the first boat to weigh in a fish over 500 lbs or at least the first one that was in that particular "Calcutta". That was good for $350,000.00 If the boat that had the biggest fish had entered that particular event he would have gone home with nearly 1 million.
ReplyDeleteA pretty penny. Remember a few years ago when one of the crew didn't have a correct license and the boat was going to lose out on a million? They settled out of court the last I heard.
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