For decades, the Town of Ocean City has awarded a $5,000 check to the angler who catches the first recorded white marlin of the season off the coast of the resort to honor the kick-off of another summer offshore fishing season and as a nod to the resort’s reputation as the “White Marlin Capital of the World.” While the Town of Ocean City awards $5,000 to the winning angler, the Ocean City Marlin Club adds a $5,000 contribution of its own if the angler who catches the first white marlin of the season is also a club member.
However, at the end of a budget work session on Wednesday, Budget Manager Jennie Knapp presented the Mayor and Council a list of supplementary budget appropriations or requests that don’t fit easily into any other department’s budget. Included on that list was the town’s $5,000 contribution to the first white marlin of the season caught and released off the coast of the resort.
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Hate to say it but this ranks as more stupid than when a Town "bean counter" decided $15k could be saved switching the soda vending contract from Pepsi to Coca Cola. These idiots just finished spending more than this on repainting the downtown water tank promoting the DEW Tour. Let's face it. The town only hires relatives of current officials but, one in a while, they'll hire somebody like a bartender or grass cutter.
The Marlin Open is bigger than the DEW Tour. I can only hope that the Town officials don't bite their own peckers off to save $5k for a world class event. It's not even enough to cover a boat crew's expenses to enter. In 3 words, this is stupid, stupid, and stupid!
Good. Tax dollars should not fund this stuff. The fishing tournament WMO should cancelled too.
Democrats would say. "POOR FISHYS....BAN FISHING"
9:01 Go away.
Just wanted to say thanx OC and DE...you morons keep chasing away tourism....we have had a record number of Maryland and Delaware visitors to beautiful SWFL ....we have no problem embracing tourists....again ty to the Eastern Shore....
WMO brings in way more tax revenue than is spent, it funds Ocean city and surrounding area governments do the math
Most of you can't read or are just plain dumb. The $5K cut from budget has nothing to do with the WMO.
9:56 Sorry to inform you, but in this country you don't get to decide what others think or say.
11:05 guess you did read the comments 10:29 is responding to 9:01 comments so look who's dumb with a reading problem
I remember being on a flight from Denver to St Louis talking to a man headed for the east coast to be in a billfish tournament. FROM COLORADO! People nationwide come here to spend way more than $5k EACH to participate.
$5k for this is the cheapest, most bang for the buck investment OC could ever make.
9:56 PM is correct.
None of you commenting even have a boat worthy of entering in the WMO. Go back to your hourly wage job and go fishing tomorrow in your jon boat.
LOL 8:37 NOW that's funny this is why I love SBY all the controversy over WMO & $5,000 prize that O.C. gives for the first whitie caught $5,000 wouldn't cover the reels on my boat. It's just a shame that people do not understand the economics of the whole thing
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