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The Big Rock Blue Marlin Fishing Tournament
When billfish competitors begin to register for the 46th annual Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament, they'll take their first step toward winning part of a cash purse that's exceeded $1 million each of the past six years.
Quite a change from the original Big Rock prize: a child's red wagon full of silver dollars.
In order to understand this transformation, you need to travel back in time to the spring of 1957. Back then, nobody was certain that billfish existed in the waters off the North Carolina coast.
Commercial fishermen in those days seldom ventured beyond sight of the coastline. Their families had worked coastal waters for generations. No one had ever seen these fish.
But sailors who worked the commercial freighters that traveled in and out of the Morehead City port insisted they’d seen blue marlin not too far from shore. Most locals dismissed this as "bar talk'' since the deck hands didn't know where they were at the time of the sightings. Since blue-marlin skeletons never washed up on the beach, these reports were believed to be idle chatter.
URL: http://www.thebigrock.com/
Address: P.O. Box 1673
City: Morehead City
State: NC
Zip: 28557
Phone: 252-247-3575
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