VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — In tournament fishing, persistence is the name of the game, and at the recent OC Tuna Tournament, that persistence paid handsome dividends for Jake Boltz.
Fifteen years of entering the ring paid off for Boltz, as he and his Fly’N Fish crew came away with more than $300,000 after the weight of their tunas topped the field in the tournament held off the coast of Ocean City, Maryland.
Boltz, 28, took the boat from Virginia Beach to Ocean City and met up with its crew to compete for the heaviest stringer — the weight of 10 yellowfin tunas, up to five per day — over the course of the three-day tournament…