TATUM: White Marlin Open celebrates 50th anniversary
Ocean City Maryland’s White Marlin Open (WMO) fishing tournament has long billed itself as the world’s largest and richest saltwater tournament of its kind. This year’s edition marked the event’s 50th anniversary, and with purses reaching a heady $10.4 million dollars, it would prove to be the WMO’s richest ever. I was determined to enter this year’s landmark event. All I had to do was find an affordable opening on a make-up charter in order to share in the celebration. I’d fished the WMO twice before. The first was the 14th Annual version aboard the boat My Desire where I [&hell...