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At the Lake Erie Walleye Trail championship in Cleveland, the tournament director cut open the apparent winners' walleye and found ten lead weights and fillets, disqualifying Jacob Runyan and Chase Cominsky.

A 459-pound blue marlin caught on the final day won Magic Touch the 45th Bisbee's Black & Blue in Cabo San Lucas and $2.44 million of a record $7.45 million purse shared by 177 teams.

B.A.S.S. Nation qualifier Dylan Nutt, 22, won the Bassmaster Classic on the Tennessee River with 66 pounds 13 ounces over three days, 9-5 clear of Trey McKinney, the first Nation angler to win since 1994.

Jacob Wheeler finally won Major League Fishing's championship, catching 21 scorable bass for 51 pounds 11 ounces on Table Rock Lake's final day to beat Takahiro Omori by 13-3 and take $300,000.

Connor Daniel's 919.9-pound blue marlin, the heaviest ever weighed at the Big Rock, won the 68th tournament in Morehead City for Marlin Fever and a record $6,513,188 of a $9.04 million purse.

Bill Sharpe's 80-pound white marlin aboard Mister Pete of Charleston won the 53rd White Marlin Open in Ocean City, Maryland, projected to earn about $3.5 million, as 334 boats fished for an estimated $9.9 million.

The world's richest sportfishing tournament returns to Cabo San Lucas for three fishing days, 21-23 October 2026, with a 7:00 AM shotgun start each day and the awards on 24 October.

World Bass Enterprises' inaugural The Champions pits 60 of the top Bassmaster Elite Series and Bass Pro Tour anglers against each other on Old Hickory Lake near Nashville, 29-31 October 2026, for a $3.25 million purse and a record $1.25 million first prize.

The Bassmaster Classic brings bass fishing's world championship and its $300,000 first prize to Greenville, South Carolina, on 19-21 March 2027, Lake Hartwell's record fifth Classic.

The Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament's 2027 week, with its lady-angler and main blue marlin tournaments, runs 11-20 June 2027 in Morehead City, a year after a record 919.9-pound blue won $6.5 million.

The White Marlin Open, long billed as the world's largest billfish tournament, fishes out of Ocean City, Maryland, from 2 to 7 August 2027, with daily weigh-ins at Harbour Island.