re: 771.2 blue marlin is 2 minutes late to weigh in at Orange Beach Billfish Classic

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Rules are in place for a reason.

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Yep. We fished the Rick's Cabaret tournament years ago and had the 1st place wahoo (70 lbs.) as the weigh-in ended that pays $9000. There was another boat coming in to the weigh-in and were running late and said they had a big wahoo, and supposedly were buddies of the tournament directors. Well, they pulled into the marina over half an hour after the weigh-in was supposed to end. I went and found one of the tournament directors and told him that if they put that fish on the board, he was gonna have 7 pissed off half drunk Coonasses to deal with.

Well, they weighed the fish and it was smaller than ours, but would have won 2nd place if they would have allowed it.