Posted on July 27th, 2025
I just got back from emceeing the awards for the 2025 HUK Big Fish Classic and it was an absolute blast. I’m still shocked that scales closed at 8:15 with 81 of 89 boats fishing Saturday into Sunday, but things went very, very smoothly and fishing was relatively slow overall this weekend. Congratulations to tournament directors John Lewis, Stephen Lewis, Sean Welsh and Brian Roberts for another successful tournament, and congratulations to all of the winners! Here are your winners.
1st Place Big Fish
Full Service Bigeye 239 Lbs $146,243
2nd Place Big Fish
Teaser Bluefin 164.5 Lbs $28,857
3rd Place Big Fish
Good Vibrations Swordfish 160 Lbs $163,770
Heaviest Yellowfin
Honor 82 Lbs $458,662 *Several billfish calcuttas with no qualifiers rolled into tuna calcuttas.
Heaviest Mahi
Off the Hook 27 Lbs $48,645
Outside of the Big Fish Classic the crew of Spring Mix II with Captain Chris Watkowski had a nice day with a blue marlin release and 10 mahi.
The crew of Foolish Pleasures with Captain Dale Lisi had a good day offshore with two white marlin releases, one yellowfin, one mahi and 18 tilefish.
Blake Gunther, Derek Yobst and crew had a three person limit of flounder up to 25.5″ and a bonus triggerfish and sea bass.
Captain Jason Mumford of Lucky Break had a couple of keeper flounder for his crew along with a mostly double brown sided flounder.
Captain Tony Battista of Saltwater Adventures put his crew on 10 throwback flounder and two nice keepers at the route 50 bridge.
