A fishing crew recently caught a prize-worthy marlin at the 66th Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament in North Carolina.
The team aboard the Hatteras-based boat, “Release,” reeled in a blue marlin weighing 504 pounds, earning the group of men $1.7 million.
The captain of the 53-foot Bobby Sullivan vessel, Rom Whitaker, led the team to success with Angler Kirk Pugh pulling in the striking big blue fish.
“These guys have been fishing together in this tournament for 22 years and have never boated a marlin in this tournament before,” a North Carolina resident who is close to the anglers told Fox News Digital (the resident requested her name be omitted for privacy reasons).
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