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WMO TOURNAMENT RECORDS

TOP 5 TOURNAMENT WINNERS

Photograph by: Dale Timmons Photograph by: Next Wave Studios

1 | 99 lbs. • Steve Bass • 1980
1 | 73.5 lbs. • Matt Wagner • 2020
110.5 WAHOO | 1994 WHITE MARLIN DOLPHIN
2 | 97.5 lbs. • Brain Roberts • 2021 2 | 71 lbs. • Jeff Rice • 1986
3 | 97 lbs. • Brandon Golueke • 2020 3 | 67 lbs. • Stephen Lewis • 2008
Kevin Wayson caught this 110.5 lb. state record wahoo aboard the Kristy Lee in 1994. 4 | 95.5 lbs. • Glen Frost • 2017 4 | 60 lbs. • Randy Worthington • 1992
That year the WMO was part of the Volvo Penta Legend Series which awarded a Volvo 5 | 94 lbs. • Cheryl McLeskey • 2015 5 | 59.5 lbs. • Frank Sinito Jr. • 2022
850 Turbo Volvo to anyone catching a state record. The Volvo representative was there
that night and handed Wayson the keys to the car! BLUE MARLIN SWORD FISH

1 | 1,062 lbs. • Robert Farris • 2009 1 | 318.5 lbs. • Jacob Rertonazzi • 2021
2 | 1,010.5 lbs. • James Kontos • 2010 2 | 273.5 lbs. • Kyle Gagliardi • 2020
3 | 942 lbs. • Dr. Jim Daniel • 1989
Photograph by: Dave Messick 4 | 935.5 lbs. • Robert Lockwood • 2008 BILLFISH POINTS
5 | 895 lbs. • Allen Roy • 2004
1 | 1949 lbs. • Hank Manley • 1980
318.5 SWORDFISH | 2021
TUNA 2 | 1270 lbs. • Scott Knoff • 1998
3 | 1190 lbs. • Ed Russo • 2019
Jacob Bertonazzi set a tournament and 1 | 326 lbs. • Jim Freitas • 1992 4 | 980 lbs. • Susan Selian • 2002
state record with his 318.5 lb swordfish 2 | 282 lbs. • Marc Wangel • 1990 5 | 945 lbs. • Marc Verzaleno • 2016
caught in the 2021 Open. Bertonazzi was 3 | 280 lbs. • Betty Sorace • 1980
fishing on Jersey Boys which caught the 4 | 279 lbs. • Chip Caruso • 2011 MONEY WINNERS
largest swordfish in the WMO in back to 5 | 276 lbs. • Jim Czaban • 2013
back years. Bertonazzi battled the beast 1 | $6,235,436 • Johnny Ols • 2023
for two hours before landing it. WAHOO 2 | $4,536,926 • Jeremy Duffie • 2022
3 | $3,238,160 • Butch Wright • 2021
1 | 105.5 lbs. • Kevin Wayson • 1994 4 | $2,792,137 • Rich Kosztyu • 2016
2 | 108.5 lbs. • Greg DiGiovanni • 2004 5 | $2,584,260 • Pascual Jimenez • 2018
3 | 91 lbs. • Anne Aramendia • 2019
4 | 87 lbs. • John Main • 1992
5 | 85.5 lbs. • Frank Visceglai • 1979
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