Billfish weigh-in busts overcome on first day of MidAtlantic

After boaters couldn’t come up with a blue or white marlin big enough to weigh in at the White Marlin Open and WMIT, that problem was overcome on the first day of the MidAtlantic. Pipe Down weighed a 489-pound blue marlin that was well over the 400-pound minimum for that species. Then V iking 80C brought in a 70-pound white that stood up against a 69-pounder on Big Oil. Almost the entire fleet fished today. and they managed just a few bigeyes. Marli leads at 205 pounds, followed by Talkin Trash at 195, Random Chaos at 112 — and Low Profile with a 101-pounder. Crisdel dominated in tuna a few days ago at the WMIT as they raised schools of bigeyes, but only weighed a 57-pound tuna today.

A very impressive dolphin was the 45-pounder by Liquidity, while Big Deal loaded up with dolphin of 25, 26 and 32 pounds. Rhonda’s Osprey leads in wahoo at 23 pounds.