While many of the 262 teams that fished this past week’s 40th Annual White Marlin Open out of Ocean City, Maryland, went home with a week full of great memories, a cadre of others attended the event’s awards dinner Saturday and pocketed a check and a handsome trophy to go with those happy recollections. Tommy Jones and his Kingfisher team from Severna Park, Maryland, came out the biggest winners, accepting more than $1.2 million for an 83-pound white marlin. Another $1.2 million was divvied up among winners in a variety of divisions, including heaviest tuna (a 276-pound bigeye), wahoo (70-pounder), dolphin (34-pounder) and shark (133.5-pound mako), and most releases. The top boats released a total of seven to nine white marlin each. Of the 394 white marlin reported, 95 percent were released. (Visit the tournament website to see the ...![Sport Fishing Mag]()
