Michael Jordan's Boat Lands First Blue Marlin At Big Rock Tournament [UPDATE]
Michael Jordan's 80-foot Viking fishing boat named 'Catch 23' has officially boated its first blue marlin at the Big Rock Fishing Tournament being run out of Morehead, North Carolina. It's early for the six-day tourney that runs all week, but word came in today at 10:37 a.m. that 'Catch 23' had hooked a blue marlin and by 12:15 ET the crew had officially brought a marlin onto the boat and now its time to see how much it weighs back at the dock.
The prestigious Big Rock tournament started in 1957 as locals put up prize money and boats started going out. Many consider it the Super Bowl of fishing, hence why Jordan's spending his week fishing in the tournament. If MJ's in, of course it's big. The tournament has a prize purse of $3,343,975. You can track Jordan's boat here and get updates on fish landed. And the leaderboard to see if Jordan can win the title. There's even a live stream where you can watch MJ's team weigh its marlin this afternoon.
Update: Jordan's first blue marlin at the Big Rock just weighed in at 442.3 pounds. MJ said he was disappointed by the weight because it didn't cross 500 pounds where it would've qualified for bonus money.
Not familiar with blue marlin fishing and why it takes so long to boat the fish? Offshore Big Game walks you through the process.