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November 17, 2011

Business magnate tags and releases grander marlin

Bob Rich was fishing with Capt. Tim Dean aboard Calypso during the 25th Lizard Island Black Marlin Classic

Famed businessman and professional sports-team owner Bob Rich accomplished a 30-year dream on Oct. 5, catching, tagging and releasing a grander black marlin on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.

An accomplished lifelong angler and an author, Rich, owner of frozen foods company Rich Products Corp. and the Buffalo Bisons, a triple-A baseball franchise, caught the estimated 1,100-pound black while fishing with Capt. Tim Dean aboard Calypso during the 25th Lizard Island Black Marlin Classic.

 

 

“[The whole crew] performed their duties wonderfully,” said Rich, who dedicated the catch to his late friend Don Tyson, a founder of The Billfish Foundation.

 

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