You fishermen best get some drool rags:biggrin: ............

[Wayne in BC]

Video is a teaser but incredible!
Giant Tuna!

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

n/t

 

[George-CT]

They sure on in a nice school of them. Fun teasing them. Fast moving fish for sure.... Better on the table. One of the club guys fishes for them pretty regular and brings in the yellow fin for our grill. Most of there here fish off of Montauck Point in New York for them.
Thats about a 28 mile run to the good fishing grounds.... Fuel cost kill ya now.

Nice video... thanks..

Geo-CT

 

[Royal]

I remember seeing a guy on a fishing show,,,Looooooooonggg ago, in the Curt Gowdy days but not him, that fought one on light line for over 7 hours. That sucker was a big one. I wish I could remember the guys name. He was on a lot of fishing shows back in the American Sportsman days. He was an ugly sucker like Fred Bear but a fisherman. I never realized that Tuna was so huge.

 

[Wayne in BC]

i believe they did put a hook on another time. Those are strongest fish on earth lb for lb!

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

I hear tell that one time down at Cibolo Creek that one attacked a 14 ft. jon boat after being hooked. It ripped the bottom out of the boat and ripped the two fisherman to pieces. All that ever washed up on shore were a few pieces of bone and skin, and one shoe. Please be advised that I did not witness any of this, but was told about it by the preacher's cousin. Kelley (Texas)

 

[Bayrat76]

A yellow fin can be to 200 lbs plus, and a blue fin way over a 1000 pounds, and bring over 10,000 to 20,000 dollars for one blue fin tuna if handled right. You had to lay it down on just one side, the down side of the fish stayed that way to keep from bruising the meat on the top of the fish. In Japan they send out graders to inspect each fish individual, for freshness, bruising, then in a couple weeks you would get a check. I never saw one of those big checks, might kept me interested in long lining. I hated the thought of waiting for my catch to be graded, you were at the mercy of other people like a truck driver, people handling the fish to be graded. I liked off loading, weighing the catch and sharing out then.
I was up on the east coast back in the early 80's and heard of sport fishing boats catching giant blue fin tuna, with big pay days. Like George was saying off New York in one of those bays or sounds I think it was called. I felt that was the way to do it, one day of fuel, catch one, point the boat home, drink beer and off load your fish. Then head to a yacht club, with pretty ladies. Instead of 20 nights of bad weather, smelly fish, and a couple of diesel engines 24, 7 ringing away. Sword fishing really was a easy way to fish for a living, go let out a 18 to 20 mile trout line out at dusk, then wait till morning start picking it up. A good day it would take about 6 hours to pick it up, keep one guy cleaning fish, one man works the spool or winch, two people winning the drops and hook leaders. But then there was those days you caught a big turtle, or a group of big sharks that would bring 2 miles of gear together, in which looked look the worlds largest knot, full of hooks, floats and fish still hanging over the side. I saw one turtle that easy went 8 to 10 foot long and 4 foot high, make a mess that took weeks to clean up. About 2 1/2 miles of gear in a ball so tight we would cut the line about ever 20 yards on line to clean it up. Man were those days fun One thing I forgot to say was when bring a sword fish on the boat, you had to cut the bill off as soon as it cleared the rail, if it hit the deck and started bunching around it could easy put the bill though you. Wish life was still this easy.

 

[gilfordberry]

They can be huge, they are extremely fast, and have been known to pull a fisherman overboard. They are very hard to slow down with a reel drag - even with 100# plus test line with the drag set just short of breaking the line. It can take more than a thousand yards of line before you can turn one around - if you can at all. More than one fish has been lost because no line remained on the reel. A tactic used by some tuna fishermen is to attach the line from a second rod/reel combo to the first when the reel is nearly stripped of line, then letting the first rod and reel go overboard while continuing to fight the fish with the second rig. This is serious as a good tuna rig (rod/reel/line) can cost upwards of a couple thousand bucks. A little too rich for my blood. Give me a good fly rod and popper when those big bluegill (bream to you Alabama guys) are bedding... They taste just as good, and it's one heck of a lot easier on your back. lol

 

[Orion42]

Love going for bluegill on the fly rod. I make up spiders for them and have had several destroyed in a good day.

John