2013 Pirate's Cove Tourney - Results / OBX

Leading tuna from JABEZ on Day Three

Sea Toy unloads their blue marlin for the crowd to see

Thursday August 15 was Day Three of the 30th Annual Pirate's Cove Billfish Tourney, and it yielded the second blue marlin to be brought to the scales during the 2013 event. Sea Toy brought their blue marlin to the scales late in the day, and while it measured long enough to be legal, it did not weigh but 325-pounds which is not enough to take over first place in the heaviest blue marlin class. The Day One 400.1-pound blue marlin from Rigged Up continues to be the heaviest billfish weighed in at the 2013 Pirate's Cove tourney. Charleston-based JABEZ weighed in a nice 68.8-pound yellowfin tuna for angler Tad Cannon to take first place for tuna - Congrats. Sportin' Life wins the dolphin category with their Day One 42-pound mahi for angler Trey Thomas, and Lee Martin from the Double B won the wahoo category with a 53.7-pound HOO. The Day Three release rate took a significant jump up; including 'Safari' releasing a grand slam: blue marlin, white marlin and a sailfish!! The tourney has 46 boats in it and after Day Three they talled 224 total releases; 11 blue marlin, 201 white marlin, and 13 sailfish. It was after the Day Three of fishing that anglers enjoyed the Release Marine fighting chair competition in the Pirate's Cove Marina pavillion. Day Four of fishing on Friday Aug. 17 saw conditions that were almost too rough for fishing and only a handful of boats fished.

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Category 1 - Team Award

Place	Boats	Name	Points	Prize
1st	Sniper	Jimmy Bayne (Angler)	1400	$52,371
2nd	Sea Toy	Bull Tolson (Captain)	1050	$31,423
3rd	Safari	Kevin Gaylord (Captain)	1050	$20,948

These are the FINAL results for the Top Boats at 2013 Pirate's Cove!
Sniper won it with 17 white marlin releases and one blue marlin release!

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