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Tim Falzone on Reel Worthless landed a 539.1-pound blue marlin that was worth $142,660 in cash and prizes to his team. (Courtesy MGCBC)
By David Rainer, Ala. Dept. of Cons. And Natural Resources
Deb Hebert has been involved in life-or-death situations and weathered the fury of hurricanes, but she has seldom been in a situation as exhilarating or draining as the one she faced during the Mississippi Gulf Coast Billfish Classic (MCGBC).
Hebert, an emergency room doctor and lieutenant colonel who has flown with the Keesler Air Force Base's famed Hurricane Hunters, hooked into the first blue marlin of her two-year fishing career on the Iona Louise, the boat owned by Joe Hudson, her boyfriend, based out of Montgomery, Ala.
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