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30th Annual South Jersey Shark Tournament • June 10-13
The Richest Shark Tournament in NJ • Plus the $50,000 Monster Shark Bonus
2009 Total Purse: $298,670

21st Annual Ocean/Viking Showdown • July 7-11
Ocean and Viking owners go head-to-head in the "War Offshore"

9th Annual Mid-Atlantic Tuna Tournament • July 14-17
The Main Event for Tuna Fishermen • Average Purse $250,000 plus!

19th Annual Mid-Atlantic $500,000 • August 15-20
Fish Cape May, NJ or Ocean City, MD • 2009 Total Purse: $1,761,602
Boat for boat, the richest marlin & tuna tournament in the world!

10th Annual South Jersey Big Bass Open • October 29-30
Presented by South Jersey Marina & the American Striper Association

Each Event title above is linked to the Overview page for its respective tournament. Info for 2010 has been updated.
The 2010 Printable Brochures for the Shark, Showdown and MA$500 tourneys are online. Tuna to be available ASAP.

2010 Shark Preview, June 10-13

Monday, December 07 2009 @ 01:58 PM MST

Just ask any shark fisherman and he’ll tell you that South Jersey’s annual Shark Tournament is the largest and most lucrative shark tournament around. To put it another way, it is THE standard for Mid-Atlantic shark fishing. In 2010, South Jersey Tournaments will celebrate the 30th anniversary of this perennial favorite, and nobody on the planet knows how to celebrate a fishing tournament like South Jersey.

2010 Ocean-Viking Showdown Preview, July 7-10

Monday, December 07 2009 @ 08:58 AM MST

If you’re an Ocean or Viking owner, it’s probably your favorite tournament. Sure, we all love the big money tournaments, but sometimes we just want to have fun, and go fishing with our friends. It’s also the perfect opportunity to introduce the next generation of anglers to the serious business of tournament fishing. That’s what the Showdown is all about: good times, family, friendship… and steaks!

2010 Tuna Tourney Preview, July 14-17

Monday, December 07 2009 @ 08:13 AM MST

If you’re serious about catching tuna, and winning a lot of money in the process, then you already know about South Jersey’s Mid-Atlantic Tuna Tournament. Chances are good that you’ve been here before and if you have, we bet that you’ll be back in 2010 to compete for a portion of the purse. In previous years, the stream of tuna coming to the scales has been virtually continuous making South Jersey’s tuna tournament the most popular in southern Jersey.

2010 Mid-Atlantic $500,000 Preview, August 15-20

Monday, December 07 2009 @ 08:02 AM MST

Number don’t lie! A $1,761,602.00 purse, 137 boats entered, two new tournament records and six solid days of fishing, fun and camaraderie… those were the numbers that defined the 2009 Mid-Atlantic $500,000. This is a tournament that continues to grow and get better with each passing year. As one participant so aptly put it last year, “We can fish any tournament, but this is more than a tournament, this is the Mid-Atlantic!”

2009 South Jersey/ASA Big Bass Open Results

Thursday, November 12 2009 @ 08:06 AM MST

Press Release

Mercury Striped Bass Tournament Series

Big Bass Open- South Jersey Marina

Cape May, NJ

November 7th 2009

Rosenhayn, New Jersey fishing Team REEL LIFE III wins the Big Bass Open in Cape May on Saturday November 7th. On an unusually calm and sunny November day Captain Anthony Visconte’s team weighed in a 45 pound striper to win the Big Bass Open held at South Jersey Marina in Cape May. His win earned the team a $2185 payday. In this 7th event of the Mercury Striped Bass Tournament Series all but one fish weighed were over 20 pounds with the top five all coming in over 30lbs. 2nd place Team PHOEBE-LYNN from Woodbury, NJ had a 40.80 pound striper. 3rd place went to Team PT-73 from Moorestown, NJ had a 35.85 striper. Team OVERKILL from Pittsgrove, NJ placed 4th with a 35.7 pound striper and rounding out the top five is Hillsborough, NJ’s team HAPI DAZE with a 31.60 pound striper. Team HAPI DAZE also received a one pound bonus for a live release. The Top Lady Angler was Mary Inman fishing with Team Big Dog. The Jr. Angler was Sean Emigholz fishing with Team OVERKILL.

The last 2009 Mercury Striper Series tournament will take place in Virginia Beach on December 12th. The 2010 kick-off tournament will also be held in Virginia Beach during the Mid-Atlantic Rockfish Shootout January 7th-9th. For more information, go to fishasa.com.

2009 Mid-Atlantic $500,000 Final Press Release

Friday, August 21 2009 @ 09:00 PM MST

TOPLESSS IS TOPS!
The record book takes another beating as the
2009 Mid-Atlantic draws to a close.

Talk about consistency! For the third consecutive year the final day of the Mid-Atlantic $500,000 produced a tournament record in the white marlin category! As predicted the weather began to deteriorate with the initial effect of Hurricane Bill’s far reaching wind starting to impact the east coast as the tournament drew to a close. On Day Five only 11 boats headed offshore in sporty sea conditions and one would believe topping Thursday’s record-setting weigh-in session would not be possible. But this is the Mid-Atlantic $500,000 and Day Five heroics and last minute changes have become very common.

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2009 Tuna Tourney ~ Moore Bills' 169 lb Bluefin Takes Top Honors

Saturday, July 18 2009 @ 08:06 AM MST

Day three, the final day of fishing for the 8th Annual Mid-Atlantic Tuna Tournament, would again create some movement on the leader board as 22 boats headed offshore for their 2nd day of fishing. Several boats increased their stringer weights, but no one was able to out do the Trust Me’s 68 lb. yellowfin caught on Friday. In the bluefin category however, the Liguidity was able to boat a 163 pounder that edged out Over The Top’s 159 pounder to put them in second place. The Moore Bills’ 169 lb bluefin caught on Friday held up for heaviest bluefin and tuna honors.

At the awards ceremony Saturday evening, participants were treated to the rock’n song stylings of The Robert Murdock Band and dined on fresh seafood from the Lobster House Restaurant. Checks were handed out along with special Guy Harvey prints to the winners and there was plenty of celebration and even a little dancing going on!

Tournament Director Bob Glover said it certainly looked like everyone was relaxing and having a great time and that’s pretty much what it’s all about!

Ocean Yachts Takes Back Perpetual Trophy in 2009

Sunday, July 12 2009 @ 11:27 AM MST

The 20th annual Viking Ocean Showdown ended Saturday night 7/11/09 with Ocean Yachts being the victor and taking back the coveted perpetual trophy from Team Viking.

Ocean led by only 164 points on the opening day, but expanded on that lead to 501 points on day two which sealed the deal. Gus Pasquarella’s Reel Gusto contributed 200 hundred points for there 2 whites and George McGinity’s Big Herring scored heavily with his 173 pound big eye. The big story though had to be Steve Sweigert’s Anger Management which scored with a white, a tuna and 300 points worth of blue marlin to put a Viking win out of reach. The awards dinner of fresh seafood from the Lobster House Restaurant preceded the awards ceremony where custom rods and reels were presented to the individual and boat category winners, and finished up with the passing of the perpetual Showdown trophy from Pat Healey of Viking Yachts to Ocean’s John Leek III. It’s an old saying, but a good time was definitely had by all!

2009 Shark Tournament... All about Sportsmanship

Saturday, June 13 2009 @ 09:00 PM MST

South Jersey’s 29th Annual Shark Tournament attracted 144 boats, and with $298,670 in total prize money and 589 fish caught, nobody went home disappointed. But the real story this year was less about the number and size of the shark brought in to Weighmaster Chris Booth, rather it was about the sportsmanship displayed by the participants.

Stories! Better yet, Fish Stories! We’ve all heard ‘em, and maybe we’ve told a few ourselves. How about the story of the crew aboard Paul Rys’s Hot Works who got their BIG bite late in the day on Day One. The thresher was so big, and the crew struggled so long to get it into the boat that they blew right through the scale closing deadline of 7:30 and missed weighing what would have been the biggest fish of the tournament by 41 pounds. Like all really good fish stories, this one does have a happy ending. An application has been filed with the State of New Jersey that should put the Hot Works and her crew into the State record books.