Who has the lead at the Big Rock Blue Marlin tournament?”
Pipe Layer lays claim to Big Rock lead June 10, 2003 – MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. – Pipe Layer captain J. F. Pedersen demonstrated a flare for the dramatic Tuesday, when he motored into port around 10 p.m. with a 677-pound blue marlin that easily took the lead in the 45th annual Big Rock. The Second Chance, owned by Henry Keen of Charlotte N.C., had been atop the leader board with the 603.5-pounder until the Pipe Layer reached the scales. When Second Chance slipped to second, it marked the fifth time in eight hours that a different boat had been atop the Big Rock leader board. The Charleston, S.C.-based crew let out a mighty yell when weighmaster George Lott shouted “677-pounds” to the crowd that was still gathered at the weigh station. Nearly 2,000 watched the early weigh-ins captured live by local sports broadcasts. Only the “diehards” got to see the big fish. “That fish went down on us … but we finally got it up,’’ said Pedersen, who was at the controls of his boat for six straight hours
No marlin caught on first day of Big Rock Comments 0 | Recommend 0 June 8, 2009 – 7:22 PM Rick Scoppe The Daily News MOREHEAD CITY – The first day of the 51st annual Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament came and went Monday without a single blue marlin being weighed in. One-hundred and fifty-three of the 157 registered boats left port and the 3 p.m. deadline for lines out of the water arrived without a blue marlin being boated that met the minimum standards to be brought to port on what was a perfect day for fishing. A total of 14 boats did catch a blue marlin – Hoos Ya Daddy landed two – but all had to be released because they were either under 500 pounds or less than 110 inches long as required under the rules of the week-long, $1.6 million event. A year ago the winner was landed on the first day – a 640-pounder caught by Darryl Reyna on the boat Artemis out of Charleston, S.C. E Z Boy out of Atlantic Beach was one of the boats that landed a marlin, which angler Scott Willis of Durham sai
