North Carolina Tuna

[RWilson2526]

Finally a chance to get some pictures off the cameras....all in all a very decent trip... total count was 17 yellow fins, nice 20-30 lbs fish and one 80 or 90 lbs Big Eye tuna.

Boat left at 5:00 am....the plan was to troll around out where they marked some the night before and find them concentrated enough for some jigging or maybe even try some poppers.....never really found them thick enough to stop trolling but the action was consistent enough to keep everybody interested.

The big eye seemed to be a real bonus as the captain and mate were down right excited to see a big eye come in.

Technically the trip was billed as a giant blue fin trip and they tried real hard to get us one. (can keep one per boat up to 73") If we had of nailed one of those the trip would have been epic. The only other downside would be that because we were sort of targeting 300 lb+ fish the tackle was pretty heavy...would have been a whole lot more fun catching all those yellow fin with some lighter tackle.

We came home with at least 200 lbs of tuna loins which made my neighbors and everbody else i know quite happy.

Here's some pics and a video of the big eye coming in....I need to find somekind of windscreen for this flip camera that I have becuase the wind noise is rediculous and it really wasnt even that windy.

http://s214.photobucket.com/albums/c...3-23223918.mp4

[charlie_the_tuna]

looks like a good trip. dam, aint been tuna fishing in some time. i miss that sh!t.

[Blue_Runner]

Sure enough looks epic to me! Big eye was a nice bonus. Question - how low in the water would the V sit with a haul like that on board?

[Redneck]

That's a nice fish!!! I did catch some small tuna off of Cancun a few years ago not even in the same league as those beauties.

[lumberslinger178]

nice trip rob.....