Saturday, August 21 2010 @ 09:36 AM MST http://www.midatlantic500000.com
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the wire finish at the 2010 Mid Atlantic $500,000! Over the years the tournament has a history of producing final day heroics and 2010 would be no different. With just minutes before the scales would close at 9 p.m. on Day Five, Matt Kriedel’s Impulse IV based out of Newington, Connecticut backed to the scales at Canyon Club Resort Marina in Cape May with what would be the last fish to be weighed at the tournament. Moments later, weighmaster Chris Booth yelled out the weight to the large crowd which had left the tournament tent and gathered around the scales when word spread of a big fish on the way in. At 177 pounds, Kriedel’s big eye tuna sealed its spot atop the leaderboard in the tuna category and won the crew $168,812!Earlier in the evening, also in the tuna category, Anthony Matarese of Pennsville, New Jersey aboard his Reel Chaos shook-up the category a bit when he weighed a 105-pound tuna in Ocean City which would take second place and earned $100,265. Don Pyle of Annapolis, Maryland aboard his Fin-Ness finished in third place with his 84-pound yellowfin caught on Day Three and earned $78,893.
In other news on the day, a major shakeup occurred in the white marlin category when Ocean City,
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