I will also be fishing the BBC. Not sure if we are going to enter or not, but we'll be fishing alongside.
Reels: 80s. Some guys im sure will use 130s cause its a tournament. Shimano Tiagra, hands down the best.
Rods: If you have a chair, bent butt chair rods to match your reels. If not, short heavy duty shtand up rods with a 50W will do for smaller fish. Bigger fish I would imagine would be very hard on standup unless you are very experienced. Basically, if you have a chair I would fish 80s. There are BIG fish out there in the 5-600lb range.
Leader: For big marlin lures Fish 300 lb wind ons with 3-400lb trace depending on the lure size.
Lures: Moldcraft Wide Range in Color #41 (blk, purple, silver) and White/Blue and Pink/White
Pakula Mouse in frigate color. Pakula Sprocket in Lumo Color
Black Bart St thomas Prowler or Abaco Prowler. If you want something big, get a Joe Yee Super Plunger. Dark colors for bahamas, blacks and purples and such. but mix it up, you never know.
Hooks: single of double stiff hoook rigs. Call Meltons (cali) or J&M Tackle (orange beach) or LMR in Lauderdale and get them to make up some lures that will be ready to clip on. Thats the best bet, rigging marlin lures is very time consuming and complicated.
Teasers: Tow a squid daisy chain off the transom and put a lure behind it or have a pitch bait ready to throw out there if a fish comes up on the teaser.
Fish 3-5 lines, with one shotgun line WAY back with a smaller lure down the middle. Bigger lures go just behind the prop wash behind the teasers. rigger lines out a little further. Just make sure the lures are tracking right.
Fish in canyon about 18 miles south of lucaya, look for temperature breaks.
--This is all info i have gathered from the pros. I take no credit, but its all good info