It's a wrap and time to hand out the winnings in the Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament

They indeed were big trouble.

Now their bank account is a whole lot fatter.

The team on Big Trouble - a boat out of the 67th annual Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament’s hometown of Morehead City - came to the docks early on Saturday’s find round of competition with a big blue marlin.

When it was all said and done, the team will collect a payday of a little more than $2.5 million for the effort.

Angler Brandon Creech caught the fish on the boat captained by Chris Daniels.

The blue instantly earned the team the coveted Fabulous Fisherman’s award for the first blue marlin weighed in the topped 500 pounds.

They can thank the crew on the Southern Grace that on Friday brought to the scales a 653.7-pounder that later that night was disqualified under Rule 24, which doesn’t allow fish that have been mutilated in some way. Fisheries biologists determined that a large chunk missing from behind the fish’s gill plate was enough reason to disqualify it.

Big Trouble’s fish bumped a 449.7-pounder caught Wednesday by 23-year-old angler Lizzie Montaque while fishing with her dad and Capt. Bryant Montaque on the family’s boat Bank Walker out of Pine Knoll Shore, N.C.

Still, the crew managed a check of more than $603,750.

Lots of daily prizes ranging from $5,000 to $49,000 also were awarded, as well as money in a multitude of divisions that teams could register in.

In the highly-fought-after release division, Wave Paver from Fort Canaveral, Fla., was declared the champ with 3,350 points to earn approximately $147,687.

Second and $88,612 went to Magic Moment out of Morehead City with 2,525 points, while New Bern, N.C.’s Builder’s Choice and its 2,500 points earned the team $59,000.

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Fishing for the first time along the East Coast, Sea Wish out of Puerto Rico won the dolphin division with a 47.2-pounder good for a little more than a half million dollars.

Oregon Inlet-based Smoker won the tuna division with a 117,4-pounder that brought the team $10,000.

And Charleston, S.C.’s Bull Pen captured $10,000 for its 60.7-pounder in the dolphin division.

Teams also were allowed to fish in a special “non-sonar” division that lessened their ability to locate fish using the arguably popular electronics.

Developin Habits from Flowers, N.C., took home more than $75,000.

The tournament committee has yet to release any daily or total catch numbers, but we’ll pop that up when they do.

So it’s a wrap and that means we’re off to the next contest in this, the season for fishing tournaments.