Bluefin tuna

[fishinpox]

Buddies who brought their big boat over from destin caught this 400# bluefin tuna out of fourchon yesterday!

[Bluechip]

WOW......what a catch. Thats an awesome fish.

[Ray]

It was one rough mutha offshore yesterday.

[bjhooper82]

WOW!!!! Thats nice!!

[Dink]

What's that sell for?

[southern151]

What's that sell for?
We need to get on that boat!!!:smokin:

[fishinpox]

It was one rough mutha offshore yesterday.

They charter and commercial fish so when it's to rough to take trips out they commercial fish , pretty sure it was yesterday or early this morning regardless I know they have been out for a few days

[fishinpox]

2 years ago Jason caught a 800+lb BFT a few days after I made a trip with him

[SaltyShaw]

Makes my yellowfins look like dinks!

[calcutta37]

very nice would love to catch a bluefin..

[mako1]

like reeling in a voltswagon

[shellman]

NICE...

[flounder_smacker]

What's that sell for?

about 300k

[Big Kahunaz]

Here's a nice yellowfin recently caught: 430#


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[Big Kahunaz]

check out those tuna tubes on the deck!

[SaltyShaw]

Good lawd!!

[Shawn Braquet]

How exactly does one go about getting that in the boat?

[southern151]

How exactly does one go about getting that in the boat?

Get with pox. May be top secret due to problems in la before but, I heard rumor that they would be around here soon...

[flounder_smacker]

big gaff and 5 people pulling it through a tuna door. most big boats have a tuna door on the transom to pull the big ones through.

[southern151]

check out those tuna tubes on the deck!

What are tuna tubes?

[flounder_smacker]

What are tuna tubes?

those white pipes in the last pic. they have a nozzle on the bottom hooked to a big live well pump. when you catch small blackfin tuna stick them in there head first. blackfin are a good marlin bait. cant keep them in a regular livewell because they need a lot of oxygen to stay alive and the nozzle forces it through their gills.

[southern151]

Thank you sir! Not very fluent in offshore fishing.

[Mako19]

about 300k

Seriously? No way its that high. I have heard blue fin tuna is very expensive but 300 k?!? Hard to believe...

[fishinpox]

Only if it meets a certain grade which in gulf waters is very hard to meet with the warmer water . Those prices are mainly from Atlantic caught BFT

[fishinpox]

If anyone wants to make a 36-48 hr trip with these guys pm me for details

[flounder_smacker]

Depends on who they sold it to. Not uncommon for blue fin to go for 800 to 1000 a.pound. someone comes and grades the meat to see what its worth. Gulf blues don't usually go as high as others but I.wouldn't doubt they got 200k for.that fish.

[fishinpox]

I'll call tomorrow n see what they got for it

[southern151]

If anyone wants to make a 36-48 hr trip with these guys pm me for details

When we goin hooker?!

[fishinpox]

In a few weeks we are tryin to set something up . Most likely it will be a last min thing when someone cancels

[Big Kahunaz]

They have a probe called a sashibo they stick through the side of the fish to see if the meat is burnt. Usually if you exhaust a fish fighting it...the meat will be considered burnt and of lesser quality....you can tell by comparing color of meat variation from prob vs a cut from the tail

[Dink]

Pox, these the guys that got jumped in Venice?

[fishinpox]

Not guys 1 guy got sucker punched

[Garfish]

Looks like a mini submarine. Nice fish fo sho!

[Asterisk-Rich]

My boy caught this one a few months ago out of montauk

[fishinpox]

Nice!!!!

[Keith_Stone]

Dats alot of Sushi rite der...

[Dink]

Was reading about this on THT.....OOOPS!!! BFT are not supposed to be kept when caught in the GOM this year!!

[Asterisk-Rich]

Was reading about this on THT.....OOOPS!!! BFT are not supposed to be kept when caught in the GOM this year!!

Yea, my boy had to release that one in the pic...it was over 800lbs!

[fishinpox]

1.5 hours to land tge fish on rod n reel! Pretty fast is u ask me, didn't sell it . When I went with these guys they were pulling in YFT in the 100-120 # class in 5 min! Freaks of nature! Cranking on the reel with one hand and pulling in line with the other hand!

[Keith_Stone]

Dats a lot of starkist !!!