July 27, 2014
By Charlie Puckett
new Texas state record .
This year marked the third annual holding of the contest off the coast of Port Aransas and the second year in a row in which Team Legacy took the top spot, according to the event's website.
Measured at 137.5 inches, it took all hands of the eight-man crew to land the nearly 930-pound fish. Caught approximately 130 miles offshore, Team Legacy said the fight lasted 20 minutes but it was over an hour before the men had the marlin aboard .
The tournament-winning fish crushed the previous state record by almost 100 pounds. James Farrow held the prior record with the 876.5-pound marlin he caught on August 20, 1988, also in the Gulf of Mexico.
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According to the International Game Fish Association (IGFA), the current all-tackle blue marlin world record is held by Jay de Beaubien, who caught a 1,376 pound Hawaiian blue in waters off of Kaaiwai Point, Kona.
Team Legacy beat the nearly 25-year old state record to take home the Bastante John Uhr Memroial tournament's $40,000 purse, making their Friday afternoon fishing session fittingly bastante, which is Spanish for "more than enough."
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