Wild times.
The World Surf League has fallen to an entirely low ebb of respectability. A governing body that champions equality yet greedily laps up autocratic anti-lesbian dollars. An authority that adores environmentalist yet parsimoniously digs carbon powered wave pools in petro kingdom deserts which also happen to be extremely anti-lesbian.
Craven to the max though, in certain corners, the actual running of professional surfing competitions, judging etc., is the most ludicrously bad part.
Anti-lesbian?
Difficult to say, exactly, but its stumbles, its mistakes, make controversies in other fringe sporting communities seem positively tame.
But let us turn our attention to professional blue marlin fishing and the just-wrapped Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament in North Carolina’s Morehead City in which a boat named Sensation caught a 619-pound fish for the win, hundreds of pounds over the nearest competitor.
And yet, as if the captain was Brazilian, was disqualified.
Organizers released a statement reading:
After careful deliberation and discussions between the Big Rock Rules Committee and Board of Directors with biologists from both NC State CMAST (Center for Marine Sciences and Technology) and NC Marine Fisheries biologists as well as an IGFA (International Game Fish Association) official, it was determined that SENSATIONS 619.4lb Blue Marlin is disqualified due to mutilation caused by a shark or other marine animal. It was deemed that the fish was mutilated before it was landed or boated and there for it was disqualified. The Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament follows IGFA rules regarding mutilated fish as outlined in Rule #23 in the Big Rock Official Rules. IGFA rules state that the following situation will disqualify a fish: ‘Mutilation to the fish, prior to landing or boating the catch, caused by sharks, other fish, mammals or propellers that remove or penetrate the flesh.
The boat Sushi was declared the winner, like Griffin Colapinto, with its 484.5 pound bit of mercury-laden flesh, and won $2.77 million.
Wait.
$2.77 million?
Has Gisele Bündchen ever dated a fisherperson?
More as the story develops.
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The Bells are Tolling on ELO’s tenure
‘I kill beautiful creatures for fun.’ Fucking shameful.
I took a ferry ride today, and some funny fish kept getting in the way of my photographs. https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Watch out the the crates of cocaine in Newy Harbour. They’ll probably drift around to Merewether though.
Elo then dreamed of lions on the beach and also tattoo’d on hot young dudes chest’s xox
Apparently there was a time in England, where be-suited gentlemen would seek a cruel hunting sport upon the ocean. The idea was to go out in as small a boat as possible, and catch the biggest tuna as they might.
Then it was weighed… and fed to the dogs, as it was considered inedible.
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chu-toro, uni…and throw in a lobster…to the inmates!
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I would hope that that the IGFA took the time to give back to Morehead City and plant some non-native vegetation in the dunes.
Ya , that’s a kick in the nuts to Sensation crew there
It’s common for Marlins to deep dive and when they die down there , there are ways to bring it to the surface with the help of the boat, like corkscrewing .
But it might take six hours
2.7mill
YES!!!!! Elo’s letter has returned. Oh wait! Chas I’m disappointed.
Elo couldn’t even dream of that sort of literacy!
Also “there for” BG approved.
They would’ve scored an additional $739,500 for being the first team to reel in a blue marlin over 500 pounds, bringing the grand total to over $3.5 million that was …Lost.
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The contest is to reel in the biggest Marlin.
It’s all about the fight.
A shark that has been attacked is weakened and does not have the normal strength of a 600 pound fish..
It’s in the rules
There are some serious echoes of Old Man and the Sea in these stories. First there was Joe DiMaggio’s long run of 56 runs which was heroically mirrored by ELO setting a personal best 20 + consecutive days of not posting photos of himself ripping on Instagram. And then there is the fish mutilated by sharks, and there is a scene where our hero has an arm wrestling competition with a beret wearing champion!