Posted on August 7th, 2020
Atlantic Tackle is you White Marlin Open tackle headquarters!
It was another busy day of scales action for day 5 of this year’s extended version of the White Marlin Open. We had tuna, wahoo, white marlin and mahi and two of the aforementioned fish were absolute doozies. Andy Motsko said early in the week that we could potentially have a $3 Million dollar marlin caught this week and today that just may have happened. The crew of the Drillin’ & Billin’ dropped a 77 pound white marlin on the dock today and since they are across the board, that fish is currently worth $2.9 Million!!
We also saw a mahi today that broke the record for the heaviest mahi ever weighed in the White Marlin Open with a gigantic 73.5 pounder that was caught by the Backlash. The big mahi missed the Maryland State Record set just last year by only one pound and is currently worth $20,000. Here are the rest of the scales leaders after five days of fishing.
Dolphin
3rd Place Wrecker 40 Pounds $2,000
2nd Place Seacurity 54 Pounds $20,000
1st Place Backlash 73.5 Pounds $20,000
Wahoo
3rd Place Miss Stella 45.5 Pounds $2,000
2nd Place Tail Chaser 57 Pounds $17,000
1st Place Magic Moment 60.5 Pounds $20,000
Tuna
3rd Place Blue Runner 106 Pounds $395,000
2nd Place Restless Lady II 114.5 Pounds $900,000
1st Place Sentient 121 Pounds $85,000
White Marlin
3rd Place Tie Sea Toy / Reel Estate / Skirt Chaser 72.5 Pounds $30,000 Each
2nd Place Tie Hook & Settle $2,500 / Mama C $140,000 74 Pounds
1st Place Drillin’ & Billin’ 77 Pounds $2.9 Million
Away from the tournament ocean bottom fishermen saw flat calm seas and some more good fishing today. Captain Chris Mizurak and the crew of the Angler had to work for their bites, but had some nice flounder and sea bass come over the rail today up to 4.5 pounds.
Captain Victor Bunting of the Ocean Princess has seen some good fishing on his trips to ocean structure this week as well.
Captain Monty Hawins of the Morning Star loves flat calm seas and a good August sea bass bite.
Into about as calm a sea as you might imagine, found a beautiful day to hunt sea bass. Ended up pretty good too. A sold out (if Covid regs light) boat for a change; one guy didn’t play our combined $20.00 reef raffle/fish pool. You’d have no trouble guessing who caught the biggest sea bass today. Layton Lineburg from Linthicum MD had the second largest fish. He didn’t mind at all..
Greg Erb of Beavertown PA was my first angler into double digits -no cbass limits though. Close, but no one crossed the line. Certainly fish fries around the rail in fine looking coolers though.
Forecast sure looks calm for a while. Days like today are easy to take.
Regards
Monty
Captain Chase Eberle of Chasin’ Tides Charters had a couple of great inshore trolling trips today putting his crews on some fun bluefish action.
Jim Turner, Jared Turner, Nathan Mangiafico, Randy Swain Sr., Randy Swain Jr. and Louden Swain hit some ocean structure today and banged on the keeper flounder and sea bass.
Ryan Cowder, Jason Pylypczuk, Mike Olson and Ethan Cowder had a nice day of inshore wreck fishing and found some nice sea bass.
Captain Marc Spagnola of Dusk to Dawn Bowfishing put these shooters on a couple of jumbo southern rays on today’s trip.
Captain Drew Zerbe and Mate Serge Garder found this crew some keeper flounder today while hosting them on the Tortuga out of Bahia Marina.
