Absolutely SR! It would add a nice comfort level for me have another boat go out - one for safety and two for seek and destroy. I'm hot and heavy looking for an insulated fish bag in case we catch a big wahoo, dolphin or worse a big yft there will be nowhere to put it....its a great problem to have when the fish is too big for your fish box or cooler. We broke off a large wahoo last year and probably a good thing because it would not have fit!

Always a good problem to have when the fish is too big for the box. My second off shore citation was a Wahoo which weighed in around 64 pounds. We lost one that was allot bigger but we never really had much of a chance with that fish. If I'm correct don't you need a seperate tuna lic.? For that insulated fish bag. If you go to thehulltruth.com and ask there you will get some good info on them and the best place to order one.

Yes on the tuna permit. Federal HMS (highly migratory species) is required which is like $22 or so.

I got boarded by the coast guard last year and the coasties tried to tell me you have to have the HMS for mahi. I had it but what kind of idiots are they if they don't even know the law? I had to just nod and say yes.

Hey blue, If you catch a big tuna you can core it out and fill it with ice, and then wrap in a big space blanket. We have used many fish bags especially on the kingfish tournament trail, we used them a lot for toting the fish to the weigh in. But when we go out of NC for giant bluefin tuna, and 500-600 pounder won't fit those bags, so we use the space blanket idea and works. its all about reflecting the heat.

Also on a side note guys, we line our fish boxes with more insulation, and then space blanket reflective insulation. its like a emergency space blanket thats kinda thick. And we can hold ice for a few weeks. We can keep fish fresh for three days, and on the third day the ice in the bottom of the box is all frozen together with the fish. So it works!!!

Oh and these we dont fish the pro tourneys, or the BFT in my little V. For those we got a Wellcraft scarab 35. I didn't wont you thinking i was crazy. The ideas will work on the V just a smaller fish box.

So Blue your planning on catching a 500 to 600 pound tuna? I'll be glad to video that from my boat.

i'll be focusing on seabass this summer because our new fluke regulations will look something like this.

1. one fish at 44.5 inches per man per day.

2. you cant take it home with you but you can look at it for a few minutes before you release it.

3. it must be an in water release.

4. you must use their favorite food so as not to upset them or give them a tummy ache.

5. in fact dont fish for them at all because we dont want you waking them up if they happen to be napping when you get there.

i can slap my old lady around whenever i want but we only get a few months of good fishin weather up here.



hey new yorkers, i hear tell they may shut down the fluke fishery for the 2009 season.
anybody got any good searobbin recipes?

I heard, second hand, it may go to 21", four per day, limited season. NO GOOD!

Yeah do you think my TLD 25 will handle it? LOL

Naw man, all I want is a couple 20 - 50 lb YFTs, some wahoo, mahi and a couple sailfish releases....all in one day!

I know, I know, it sounded somewhat doable until I said in one day!

Sucks about your fluke regs. And I thought they screwed us over in SC. The limit went up from 12" to 14" @ 20 per person per day. How will I ever survive?!?
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Enjoy it while you can Blue, things are not so good up here anymore, not because of no fish, because the commercial guys pay more graft.

Hell even with those limits I haven't caught a flounder in SC in 2 years. And believe me I've tried!

I don't know what the problem is??