{"id":1541,"date":"2023-08-30T14:58:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T14:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/?p=1541"},"modified":"2023-08-30T14:58:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T14:58:04","slug":"michael-jordans-team-places-third-in-marlin-fishing-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/?p=1541","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jordan&#8217;s Team Places Third in Marlin Fishing Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"incArticle\">\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Michael Jordan might be retired from mainstream competitive sports, but he\u2019s still playing for keeps in the world of competitive saltwater fishing. In late August, Jordan\u2019s team participated in the 32<sup>nd<\/sup> annual <a href=\"https:\/\/themidatlantic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MidAtlantic Fishing Tournament<\/a> based in Cape May, New Jersey. Fishing aboard the <em>Catch 23<\/em>, Jordan\u2019s one-of-a-kind sportfishing yacht, the team went up against 181 other boats and finished near the top of the crowded field. The crew placed third in the white marlin division, catching a 75-pound marlin and winning just over $460,000 in prize money.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Catch 23 <\/em>team\u2019s top marlin was just one pound shy of the category\u2019s second-place finisher, and 12 pounds shy of the biggest white marlin weighed at the event. They caught their money fish on Aug. 24, on the second-to-last day of the five-day tournament.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FMidAtl%2Fposts%2Fpfbid0zQouSdE55yEYVPpE5UdtYNxVK2RqieXSnVANTy3Hbz1GVftaTQyFYPw7sngr77WNl&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"466\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Although Jordan owns the <em>Catch 23<\/em> and fishes in several offshore tournaments every year, His Airness was conspicuously absent from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=611671491083786&amp;set=a.499502338967369\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">weigh-in photo<\/a> that the MidAtlantic Tournament shared to its Facebook page. The photo credits Jimmy David as the angler who caught the 75-pound marlin, and Stetson Turney as the captain.<\/p>\n<p>The organizers of the tournament did not respond to requests for comment, but several Facebook users commented on the photo, asking \u201cWhere\u2019s the boss?\u201d and \u201cWhere is Mike?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A few others responded to these comments and claimed that MJ was spending time with his family in Italy while the tournament was taking place. Another chimed in, saying \u201c[Jordan] rarely fishes the [MidAtlantic Tournament],\u201d in part because \u201che always fishes the White Marlin Open and the MidAtlantic is only a week later.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Next:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outdoorlife.com\/fishing\/blue-marlin-disqualified-tournament\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Marlin Catch Disqualified from Tourney Due to Shark \u201cMutilation.\u201d Costs Anglers $3.5 Million in Winnings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the White Marlin Open\u2019s website, Jordan was one of nine anglers who fished aboard the <em>Catch 23<\/em> during that event. Billed as the \u201cWorld\u2019s Largest Billfish Tournament,\u201d the five-day tournament based in Ocean City, Maryland, also has a reputation for doling out some of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outdoorlife.com\/fishing\/six-million-dollar-marlin\/#:~:text=The%20record%2Dbreaking%20%244.45%20million,a%2077.5%2Dpound%20white%20marlin.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the largest fishing tournament payouts of all time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan\u2019s team hooked two white marlin during this year\u2019s White Marlin Open, but they failed to boat either of the fish and never made it to the weigh-in. This makes their third-place finish in the MidAtlantic\u2014along with the nearly half a million in prize money that came with it\u2014all the sweeter.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v3.2\" id=\"facebook-js-js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outdoorlife.com\/fishing\/michael-jordan-marlin-tournament\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Jordan might be retired from mainstream competitive sports, but he\u2019s still playing for keeps in the world of competitive saltwater fishing. In late August, Jordan\u2019s team participated in the 32nd annual MidAtlantic Fishing Tournament based in Cape May, New Jersey. Fishing aboard the Catch 23, Jordan\u2019s one-of-a-kind sportfishing yacht, the team went up against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gun-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}