The Blue Marlin Grand Championship is once again staying in Orange Beach as Miss Ma’am sprayed champagne at Marlin Circle Saturday night with a 123-inch, 650.4-pound prize fish.

Cooper Yancey was credited with the catch Thursday night and the blue marlin became the first of the weekend to be weighed Friday morning. Although Team Intense from Mobile reeled in a 124’ fish Saturday morning, it only checked in at 647 pounds and left Miss Ma’am as the frontrunner in the weighed blue marlin category.

They follow A Work Of Art, another Orange Beach boat, in being named the Blue Marlin Grand Champion in their hometown. The winning blue marlin served as the lone boated fish for Miss Ma’am and captain Chase Johnson during the final tournament of the Gulf Coast Triple Crown.

Records are meant to be broken

The best was apparently saved for last as Blue Marlin Grand Championship records were set with 132 total billfish caught on the weekend for records according to the tournament. On the weekend, there were 106 blue marlins, 14 white marlins and 12 sailfish reported to set new standards for the event hosted at The Wharf.

Once that cloud of champagne settled, it was then Team Supreme’s turn to celebrate a second-straight Gulf Coast Triple Crown trophy.

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The boat from Destin, Florida, became only the third multi-time winner of the Gulf Coast Triple Crown, a series of four tournaments that start and end in Orange Beach.

Only Done Deal (2012, 2013 and 2017) is the other boat to win consecutive triple crowns and is the lone three-time winner, for now. Relentless Pursuit is the other multi-time winner with champagne showers in 2015 and 2019.

Other category winners

Another Orange Beach boat, Rising Sons, took first place in heaviest tuna with a 197.8-pound fish that edged out Crawgator’s biggest tuna by 0.2 pounds. Jaselyn Berthelot was credited with the catch for Rising Sons.

Keith Wade from Perseverance caught the heaviest dolphin of the tournament at 26.8 pounds and Jayden Pasentine from Relentless Pursuit reeled in the heaviest wahoo at 40.4 pounds.

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