BajaNomad - 190 lb Bluefin tuna in the boat!

190 lb Bluefin tuna in the boat!

55steve - 6-2-2016 at 05:17 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w4QU6X7Im4

This was yesterday, just south of the border from San Diego.

[Edited on 6-3-2016 by 55steve]

SFandH - 6-2-2016 at 05:20 PM

Sickening, but I'm a weird animal rights kind of guy, crazy vegan.

55steve - 6-2-2016 at 05:21 PM

That's OK, you're allowed to be.

SFandH - 6-2-2016 at 05:27 PM

Thanks, some folks consider me batchit crazy. :bounce:

woody with a view - 6-2-2016 at 06:14 PM

Nobody is judging (right this moment) but that can change in the blink of an eye!

NICE FISH! I wonder how long before the seiners get them all?

55steve - 6-2-2016 at 06:33 PM

Quote: Originally posted by woody with a view

Nobody is judging (right this moment) but that can change in the blink of an eye!

NICE FISH! I wonder how long before the seiners get them all?

Too big for the seiners. These fish won't be around long as there's not much here for them to eat. The yellowfin made a showing yesterday at the 182 spot - nice fish 40-60 lbs.

On the vegan thing - I cringe every time I drive by a farm during harvest season - the screams as the poor plants are being slashed/uprooted
is almost more than I can bear!

willardguy - 6-2-2016 at 06:54 PM

Quote: Originally posted by 55steve

Quote: Originally posted by woody with a view

Nobody is judging (right this moment) but that can change in the blink of an eye!

NICE FISH! I wonder how long before the seiners get them all?

too big for the seiners?
1988 a small group of seiners were having a field day wrapping bluefin to 900 lbs with the average fish at 300lbs.
this was channel islands rosa to nickolas!

55steve - 6-2-2016 at 07:00 PM

Quote: Originally posted by willardguy

Quote: Originally posted by 55steve

Quote: Originally posted by woody with a view

Nobody is judging (right this moment) but that can change in the blink of an eye!

NICE FISH! I wonder how long before the seiners get them all?

too big for the seiners?
1988 a small group of seiners were having a field day wrapping bluefin to 900 lbs with the average fish at 300lbs.
this was channel islands rosa to nickolas!

You are absolutely correct - this is not what they're after these days though. The market BFT is around 60-80 lbs. The ones the Mexicans are after for the pens are 20-30 lbs. Right now off our coast there's 2 schools of BFT - 60 -80 lb & the big ones up to 250 (so far)

[Edited on 6-3-2016 by 55steve]

4x4abc - 6-2-2016 at 08:28 PM

those vegans/vegetarians are bad for your health insurance premium - they are sick more often.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/vegetarians-are-le...

full version here

[Edited on 6-3-2016 by 4x4abc]

cbuzzetti - 6-2-2016 at 09:32 PM

Thats a beauty! Bluefin are excellant eating too.

***A and TUNA

captkw - 6-2-2016 at 09:42 PM

Yes, they where good eating..... Now You need a g counter..Wake up and turn off your TV and get a clue

55steve - 6-3-2016 at 10:13 AM

http://www.fishwatch.gov/profiles/pacific-bluefin-tuna

bezzell - 6-3-2016 at 10:14 AM

Quote: Originally posted by 4x4abc

those vegans/vegetarians are bad for your health insurance premium - they are sick more often.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/vegetarians-are-le...

oh yea baby !! That's it. I'm switching back to eating corpses / chicken's periods and cow pus !!

Thanx Bubba !! :lol:

Look at those A$$wipes all giddy as the fish suffocates away. Must be what it's like to be a real man. :rolleyes:

woody with a view - 6-3-2016 at 06:29 PM

My buddy Kevin (on the right) and Co with a 130.4# Bluefin caught right off Sandy Eggo.

willardguy - 6-3-2016 at 10:09 PM

on the coffee grinder???????????

55steve - 6-3-2016 at 10:58 PM

Quote: Originally posted by willardguy

on the coffee grinder???????????

Quite a few are being taken on high end spinning tackle designed for the job - most are tossing large poppers such as the one in Woody's pic. Here's a link to Shimano Stellas....the least expensive is over $1K..

http://www.meltontackle.com/products/shimano-stella-swb-salt...

Wasabi and soy

captkw - 6-3-2016 at 11:05 PM

Damn nice fish and Ill take a few kilos for the eating (wishing) Looks like maybe a good tuna season for So Cal this season..

55steve - 6-4-2016 at 07:05 AM

Seared BFT, brown rice & kale salad...

chuckie - 6-4-2016 at 07:31 AM

Very nice!

DirkEXC - 6-4-2016 at 08:00 AM

My dinner at Jadines last weekend, its good to be a tuna meat eater.

Sweetwater - 6-4-2016 at 08:38 AM

Quote: Originally posted by captkw

Yes, they where good eating..... Now You need a g counter..Wake up and turn off your TV and get a clue

According to Science, this is one of the few examples that I've heard about where the wild game stock is contaminated but the farmed stock that's sold on the market is safe....berry interesting.....

Quote:

Virtually all bluefin tuna on the market in the United States is either farmed or caught far from the ***ushima area, so American consumers should not be affected by radiation contamination in their fish, seafood distributors say. The migratory bluefin studied by the researchers were all caught by sport fishermen and were not headed for the market.

willardguy - 6-4-2016 at 09:15 AM

im just anxious to see smoked tuna back in the seafood markets, its been months :coolup:

Blair - 6-6-2016 at 06:35 AM

Yeah those guys are mean! Insensitive burrowipes for sure!

Quote: Originally posted by bezzell

Quote: Originally posted by 4x4abc

those vegans/vegetarians are bad for your health insurance premium - they are sick more often.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/vegetarians-are-le...

oh yea baby !! That's it. I'm switching back to eating corpses / chicken's periods and cow pus !!

Thanx Bubba !! :lol:

Look at those A$$wipes all giddy as the fish suffocates away. Must be what it's like to be a real man. :rolleyes:

bezzell - 6-6-2016 at 09:01 AM

Quote: Originally posted by Blair

Yeah those guys are mean! Insensitive burrowipes for sure!

Not even close in meaness ... to ignorance.
but carry on