Marlin - like a cold, everyone is catching.....

Releases today:

California Style with 2
Scrambler with 2
Reel Time
Buck Fever with 2
La Dulce Vida
C Bandit
After Midnight
Rickdiculous
Code 3
Bad Company with 4
club Ted
One Hot Tuna
Pacific Edge
Surly Mermaid
Exta Sea
Great White
Knote for Rent
Reel Nice N Easy
Sea Dance

And the catch of the day - boated and weighed:

La Dulce Vida - 95.5 inches and 206 pounds.... Side note: they are running a Mikelson, the tournament sponsor

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The bite, it never left.....

There is a flurry of action going on.... Here is the complete rundown...

Hooked up:
Bad Company
Pacific Edge
Reel Nice N Easy
After Midnight - double
Mizpah
Club Ted
One Hot Tuna
Cazador
Surly Mermaid

Most Recent Released:
Bad Company - released their double


Boated:
Sharks Parlour (staying out to fish the rest of the day)
La Dulce Vida (in at high noon - how appropriate)

Making a run for the money...

And the first boated fish - La Dulce Vida... And they are on their way in...

Go to catalinatournaments.com to view the weigh station and watch it all live...

10:30 update

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Bad Company turned a single to a double...
Sharks Parlour
California Style
Surly Mermaid
Grand Finally
Good Karma
Cazadora

It is going great again...

10am update....

We have some news on hook ups and releases....

Hooking up most recently is

Sharks Parlour
After Midnight
Bad Company
Ridiculous

No new releases to report...

The bite is on and cracking....

9:30 update

Here is a recap of the action that is happening so far - this recap brought to you by Sea Vision...

Currently hooked up
C Bandit
Serious Business
California Style

Released
California Style
Reel Time
Scrambler
Buck Fever
La Dulce Vita

And then there were 3

Buck Fever has joined the mix with Scrambler and Reel Time - we now have 3 teams hooked up... The day is starting off right...

Here at the pier the sun is coming out, the air is warm and we are ready... Well as ready as we can be...

8am...

Reel Time is now hooked up...

California Style is on the board with a release...

Reel Time and Scrambler are hooked up...

Letting go...

California Style - they hook up and the sun comes out... The fish was not big enough, so they had to let her go... On the next one California Style and thanks for starting us off...

Scrambler is still hooked up.....

Scrambler....

One is the lonliest number... So in order to keep California Style company, team Scrambler has jumped into the mix and hooked up as well.

It is not even 8am!!! This is starting off great...

And so it begins.....

California style is starting off in style with the first hook up of the morning... Way to go, now lets see if the early bird gets the worm.... errrr, a keeper

So they creep.....

No shotgun start on day two. Just a check in and then a smooth ride out into the ocean. The air is cool, cloud cover surrounds Catalina with clear skies above Avalon..... The anglers and TC are ready for another great day of fishing...

With over 200k on the line it is go time...

Tight lines and more to come

Busy day - here is the report...

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Here is the complete release report:
36 releases
C Bandit
Bad Company with 3
Gambler with 2
Sea Dancer
After Midnight with 3
Reel Nice and Easy with 2
Code 3
Good Karma (still hooked up at 5:45)
Everglades with 2
Sharks Parlour
Exta Sea
Mizpah with 2
Ahi Nui
Cazadore with 3
Surly Mermaid
Scrambler with 5
Chaser
Reely Hooked
Great White
1 Hot Tuna
Angel and the Badman
Buck Fever

Here is the boated marlin report:
10 boated - official weights
Gambler with 3 (length then weight):
1. 85 - 161
2. 87 - 188.5
3.87.5 - 191

Angel and the Badman (DNQ)
Surly Mermain (DNQ)
Salt Shaker (178.5)
End of the Line (171.5)
Puritan (166)
Ace High (DNQ)
C Bandit (DNQ)

Letting go.....

While we wait for the Salt Shaker to bring in their boated marlin here is a release update -

Both Great White and Team Bad Company have released their marlin....

Back to the docks as we get ready for Salt Shaker....

4pm update

The 4pm update brought to you by WFO sportfishing and the Blue Water CUP Series...

The action on the water has finally slowed down a bit and just like predicted by the anglers and the wizard sooth sayer, Bob Hoose of Berkley, the marlin being hooked are BIG. The marlin are in one small area and the 50 teams are all fighting for their attention....

Here is where we stand -
Gambler is now hold 3 marlin
End of the line has 1
C-Bandit has 1
Ace High with 1
Salt Shaker with 1 - they should be in first.

The following teams have moved on from their marlin...
Mispah has released
Great White released

The following are currently hooked up....

Angel and the Bad Man - still keeping up the good fight with a double
Buck Fever
Mispah
Bad Company

Boating even more

Salt Shaker has boated a marlin and last years Bisbee's Black and Blue winners, Angel and the Badman, have hooked up...

Very busy day on the water....

Holding even more

If we are in the land of Bizarro then Uno would only work if you held onto more and more cards. It seems like Gambler is in Bizarro world - they have boated their 3rd fish... I get it, you have to know when to hold'em, but 3... That is amazing work by an amazing team..

Gambler - holding again

The Gambler has boated another marlin...

Scrambler is doubled up

Many are compairing the bite today to Mexico...

Update - 2 let go

It's so hard to let go in a kill tournament but when the marlin are too small you have too. Both Chaser and Scrambler let go of their marlin in an effort to catch a much larger marlin... The money is big, the bite is on and the pier is loaded with on lookers and we wait for the Surley Mermaid to come in with their boated marlin....

Tight lines and more to come..

We are working on a record...

New update brought to you by the Bisbee's Black and Blue...

Scrambler released one of a double hook up
Cazador has released their marlin as well

The Surley Mermaid is due in aroudn 1:15.... More to come...