most memorable fishing exprience

[Zachary Boy]

My rather wealthy friend took me on a tuna trip many years ago. We left right at dark for a 90 mile run to a floating rig called Mars. Ripping 50 mph across the Gulf ,we got to the tuna grounds in a couple of hours. The tuna would have no part of the hardtails we caught on the way out but were tearing the flying fish up. They would rocket out of the water and nail the f/f in mid air. My buddy looked in his tackle box and found 2 big plastic f/f. When the tuna would start busting near the boat, we were sight casting at them. When we would 'stick' one, they would spool us time and time again.We were also catching flying fish with dip net and putting them on a hook. This insanity went on for a couple of hours. We ended with 8 100+ yellowfin and 16 blackfin tuna. I'll never forget being 90 miles out in GOM with the moonlight and the lights from the rig and tuna smashing everything that hit the surface. I hope to get to bring my 19 year son to experience this one day. I told him to train for one of these trips ,go out in the front yard and find a tree limb and hang by your right arm for 5 min. ,then switch hands and hang by your left arm for 5 min. When you can do that for 1 hour, you're ready to go tuna fishing....