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A. We stood there kind of awestruck, you know,
not doing anything?
Q. Was she on your line?
A. Oh, yes, she was on the line.
Q. How did she get off your line?
A. We got in the chair, she’s running, you know,
we’re reeling; we’re backing up, and then she starts to
jump. And it was so amazing to see this fish and I
quit reeling.
Q. Did she snap the lines?
A. Yes, she came down, broke the line, angler
error.
As to the third fish, Mr. Peacock testified that petitioners
would have won $150,000 in 1997 had it only got away. Mr.
Peacock animatedly described the events surrounding this fish as
follows during his direct testimony at trial:
A. * * * we was in Grey Harbour, which is in the
lower part of the Harbour Island, which is in the lower
part of the Bahamas. And we were out, it was either
the third or the fourth day of the tournament. I can’t
remember which one.
But we was sitting on a 683-pound fish that we
knew was going to be a tournament winner. But the
tournament winner is not only predicated on the largest
fish, it’s the total pound of fish. It’s two separate
categories. The winner is based on pounds of fish.
And there was a boat out of Fort Lauderdale that
had caught a fish that morning. And it wasn’t that big
a fish. It was about 300 or so pounds. And so we’re
sitting on this 683-pound fish, that we had caught
right in the middle of the day. And we just absolutely
knew that we not only had the tournament won, we had
the daily won.
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