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Posted 8/15/2008 8:23:35 PM
Sailfish

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Blue weighed in at 1228.5 in the pirates cove tourney...(OBX) caught aboard the Mimi out of Ft. Lauderdale, Fl.

more pics at the homepage to this site

http://reelbuzz.com/fishreports/fishnfool/reply.asp?ID=7909&Reply=7909

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Posted 8/15/2008 10:05:07 PM


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Capt Mike King (at the helm) is from my home Kure Beach (NC). =) woot woot! Way to represent! lol

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Posted 8/16/2008 12:50:27 AM
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Sweet lord what a badass fish! And why do we still have kill tournaments, again?
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Posted 8/16/2008 12:51:46 AM
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It was caught on a Black Bart breakfast, on 80 pound tackle.

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Posted 8/16/2008 9:18:28 AM
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the donkey (8/16/2008)
Sweet lord what a badass fish! And why do we still have kill tournaments, again?

that was the only one brought in......$493.000.00 and so its known, there were 103 billfish released during this tourney(23 being blue marlin) and only 1 weighed in.....thats a 96% release rate on blues and 100% release on whites and sails.......

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Posted 8/16/2008 11:17:09 AM


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dang what a fish...

thanks for posting the math Bluffman!

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Posted 8/16/2008 12:58:44 PM
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bluffman2 (8/16/2008)
the donkey (8/16/2008)
Sweet lord what a badass fish! And why do we still have kill tournaments, again?

that was the only one brought in......$493.000.00 and so its known, there were 103 billfish released during this tourney(23 being blue marlin) and only 1 weighed in.....thats a 96% release rate on blues and 100% release on whites and sails.......

good god, now where all the bills are.  They are in the atlantic!  I bet in the gulf we havent had 103 billfish tagged TOTAL in all the touries this year.  That is one stud of a fish!

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Posted 8/17/2008 1:59:27 AM


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the top three boats in the tournament were spencer boats
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