The blue marlin bite kicked into high gear for the 41 boats competing in the Bermuda Billfish Blast, the first leg of the Bermuda Triple Crown. On Day One the Blast is also fished in conjunction with the World Cup Blue Marlin Championship and the entire fleet kept their eyes out for the big blue that would bring the World Cup title back to Bermuda. With more than $260,000 in cash and prizes up for grabs in the Blast, the crews were chomping at the bit to try their luck offshore.

The weather broke and the bite turned on just in time as the fleet headed to Bermuda's world-class offshore banks on Day One. Madeira was already atop the World Cup leader board as the Bermuda fleet left the dock with a 595-pounder, but no one seemed too worried about topping that mark. Wound Up, led by Capt. James Robinson, scored an early blue marlin release with angler Mike Henry in the chair. At 1:41 p.m. the team on Wound Up saw the fish they were looking for as a big blue pilled on a lure and took off. Seventeen-year-old angler Stefan Olsen made his way to the fighting chair. After a drag-and-pull battle lasting two hours, the fish came up dead. At 3:40, Robinson made the announcement that the fish was secured and measured 132 inches short length. All estimates showed that it should definitely be enough to take the lead in the World Cup. The team kept fishing until lines out and a raucous crowd awaited their arrival at the weigh in to see how the scale would treat the Bermuda boys. At 865 pounds, it toppled the mark and beat out the boats in Hawaii to bring the World Cup back to Bermuda and take the big fish award in the Billfish Blast worth $88,000.

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