The MGCBC 2010 Sponsorship Guide is available online. Now is a great time to get your ad in for this year's tournament event magazine.


2010 Sponsor Guide

Elroy testing out his brand new gut bucket:  nice form!

The 10 Richest Tournaments in the Land - Marlin

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This video has nothing to do with billfish but it's a pretty cool fishing technique!
check it out:
mud-ring fishing

This video was put together from several years of clips.  The Gulf of Mexico record blue marlin makes an appearance as does another huge bluefin tuna from our early years.

Tournament video

Mississippi Gulf Coast Billfish Classic - History 1997  http://mgcbc.com/History1997.php

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The Classic kicked off its first tournament. All white marlin and sailfish were only to be tagged and released. The blue marlin's legal limit was set at 92 inches, five inches above federal guidelines. The purse was $300,000. Eight blue marlin were brought to the scales. David Pippin on the boat Miss Orleans weighed in a 917.4 lb. blue marlin that had to be disqualified by the tournament due to large prop slashes in the fish. Shannon Faulkner, an 18 year old fishing on his grandfather's boat Never Content took top honors and $130,000 with his 631.8 lb. blue marlin. There were 6 blue marlin and 2 white marlin tagged and released.


Blue Marlin
First - Never Content - Shannon Faulkner- 631.8 lbs
Second - Game Plan - Bobby Nicholson - 325.4 lbs
Third - Cat-N-Round - Michael Sullivan - 289.1 lbs

Tuna
First - Bud Man - Carmen Still - 185.9 lbs
Second - Never Rest - Jim Holmes - 166.9 lbs
Third - Leezer Time - Doug Newman - 164.0 lbs

Dolphin
First - Tempruss - Joe Ballow - 51.0 lbs
Second - Color Me Gone - Ted Taylor - 49.2 lbs
Third - Waste’n Away II - Raymond Heck - 44.3 lbs

Wahoo
First - Color Me Gone - Ted Taylor - 71.0 lbs
Second - Pamella Lynn - John Nicholas - 68.2 lbs
Third - Pamella Lynn - Mike Hixon - 60.1 lbs

If you would like to be a sponsor of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Billfish Classic please contact us soon as we are gathering ads and information for our magazine, publications and web sites.

Sponsors of the MGCBC

Sponsorship Guide - this is the 2009 guide. The 2010 guide to be published soon with same rates.

Sponsorship / Ad Space Contract - again the 2009 contract but the 2010 will be the same language.

An interesting article from the past...
Take a Chance on Biloxi - Marlin Magazine


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Team Get Lit with Ocean LED wrap.

Wrap designed by Screen Print Plus using underwater images from Tony Ludovico.

It may be a little chilly for fishing today but it's a great time to book a charter for the spring and summer.  Check out Captain Mike's crew "eatin' breakfast and catching tuna".   captainmikesfishing.com

The Annie Girl out of Orange Beach Alabama has fished 12 of our 13 years here at the MGCBC.  As certain as the sun sets in the west, the Annie Girl will be queued up to weigh their fish on Saturday night of tournament week and we all look forward to seeing them and the other Resmondo hulled fleet out of Orange Beach each year.  These guys are the best in the world and we send out a very warm thank you to Mike and Tammy. Good luck in 2010!

Thanks to the Marlin Magazine and company for sponsoring the Big Game Room!  Here is a link to article from Marlin Magazine: Marlin, Salt Water Sportsman and Sport Fishing magazines sponsor MIBS Big Game Room.

For more information on the Big Game Room, call 954-441-3229.