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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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)

4pm update

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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

Playing for keeps....

We have two more teams that are playing for keeps...
C-Bandit has boated their fish
Surley Mermaid has boated thier fish and still fighting their second hook up
That is 4 fish boated so far today...

All the teams below have released their marlin -

Reel Nice N East
Mispha
Good Karma
Cazador
Gambler
Ahinui

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New to the hook up are....

Surley Mermaid on a double (run by two fine ladies)
Reel Nice N Easy
Exta Sea

A ton of marlin are biting and two have been boated (Gambler and Puritan)

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And the new hooks of up the minute are -

Salt Shaker
C-Bandit
Ahinui
Good Karma

Puritan is on their way in with a marlin... They should be into the docks by high noon...

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The releases including...

Reel Nice N Easy
Code 3
Everglades
Good Karma
Bad Company

The most recent hook ups...

C-Bandit
Warrior
Sharks Parlour

Boated marlin coming in

Puritan
Gambler

Hooking up early...

The morning bite is on.... Bad Company and C-Dancer are both hooked up. The question remains, is the marlin big enough for the scale?????

Day 1: shotgun start

There is a cloud cover over the island. Unlike the last 2 tournaments, the weather is cool and the water temperature is down in the hi 60's.

After an fun day checking in; including the casting contest, chipping contest and a reeling contest. The anglers are warmed up for some excellent fishing..

The Mikelson Catalina Classic is "The Show" - this is the BIG money tournament on Catalina. These anglers are hunting for 250k in cold hard cash....... It all comes down to the biggest marlin, it is that simple...

And they are off...