Marlin fishing is a big-money racket, from the multi-million dollar boats to the million-dollar-plus purse in tournaments like Morehead City’s Big Rock.
Still, the deep-pocketed fishermen and hired hands aboard need the same $15 North Carolina recreational fishing license everyone else does.
A record-setting blue marlin that would have won almost $1 million in last week’s Big Rock was on the verge of disqualification today as tournament officials investigated whether one of the boat’s hired crewmen failed to purchase a license.
Citation owner Michael Topp told WITN-TV that one of the boat’s hired mates never produced a copy of his license, which captain Eric Holmes revealed while taking the polygraph examination required of all Big Rock winners. Topp told the television station Big Rock officials then confronted the mate, who confirmed he had no license. More here:
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