2011 White Marlin Open Winner Loses Out on Big Payday

The scales at the 2011 White Marlin Open up closed on Friday, resulting in the successful boat shedding out on $ 615k for not getting into the tournament’s best amounts, otherwise identified as ‘Calcutta.’ The winner, Wee Wun IV out of Ocean City Maryland, weighed in an 88.five-lb white marlin on the last day of the contest, declaring the very first location prize of $ 289,063.00. Unfortunately for them, the genuine payday was awarded to the second spot crew, Tighten Up, who chose to enter all the billfish Calcutta, resulting in a win of over $ 750k.

The additional entry ranges in the tournament are commonly referred to as Calcutta’s, and each and every Calcutta has a greater value tag to enter. The leading Calcutta which the Wee Wun IV didn’t enter was $ 5,000 and for that explanation they lost out on $ 600,000. The guys from Tighten Up really should send Wee Wun IV a good Xmas reward for their massive mistake.

Truth is It was awesome as hell to see Wee Wun at the scale these men ended up great and they have been so proud.

I had this composed up as every single yr i see posts on the web site about Calcutta’s.

You just never ever know what you will catch.

Bill Bower on the very last Straw explained to me at the scale we ended up fishing whites and bamm 200 plus lb big eye..
Im not positive what Wee Wun was in fact concentrating on but appears you can catch the winners with out actually concentrating on them…

Con-grates to all it was a killer year and guy we had enjoyable!