BIG Blue Marlin and A White Marlin Change for Day 4 of the 2026 MidAtlantic Tournament

By Scott Lenox

Posted on August 20th, 2026

Man, it is thunder storming outside my house right now! We shut the live broadcast of day 4 scales of The MidAtlantic Tournament a few minutes short thanks to a tornado warning in the area, but the damage to the leaderboard had already been done. We saw a new tuna, white marlin and big blue marlin hit the leaderboard today and lots of money changed hands as rain fell in both Ocean City, MD and Cape May, NJ. Tomorrow looks like a busy day with over 170 fish days left, so tomorrow could still be anybody’s ballgame. Here’s who’s leading The MidAtlantic after four days of fishing.

Tuna

1st Place Tie – Talkin’ Trash & Disciplined 182 Pounds

2nd Place – Following Seas 126 Pounds

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Captain Jason Mumford of Lucky Break Charters had a fun day for his anglers today with some keeper bluefish, flounder, tautog, sheepshead and even a triggerfish.

Antonios Aikaterinidis caught this 33″ mahi at the Jackspot today.

Captain Chris Mizurak of the Angler reported hot conditions and good fishing on today’s trip with plenty of sea bass and flounder with some mahi on the side.

Captain Monty Hawkins of the Morning Star targeted mahi today and his anglers were happy he found them

A picturesque sunrise over calm seas – I’ll take it. Paddled on off a good way before approaching our block drop. Bob & Nathan did the deed, almost certainly creating recreational reef building fish mortality. (Err.. though less than two hundred blocks at that new site, there were LOTS of sea bass. I ‘spect some got mushed; maybe they’re more aware than that though. Block unit has to make a lot of noise going down..)

We pressed on and again got the skunk off the rail first drop. Had a couple decent shots – some goose eggs too. When the current died; the bite, as ever, got tough.

Once running again though we had the best action of the day.

Jeff won the pool & the 50/50 reef raffle. Needs to head over to the casino tonight..

Tomorrow fluke & sea bass.

Cheers,

Monty