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Originally Posted by Pennsy Guy
Yea, but it's a + in the ledger, not a -...bait 'n fuel for another tuna search...don't forget Marciano did it last year & they got a fish..the charter guys each got a turn,a shirt and a major memory...they seemed most appreciative for crankin' the handle...
Bill puts too much onus on the charter to "keep it tight" & "they don't know"!!!Didn't look like it to me..seemed like the charter was doing a pretty good job...
Question for Dave(Tuna.Com)...I know it'd take longer to get the fish to the harpoon and it would probably fetch less at the buyer, but wouldn't easing off on the drag help improve the catch/pulled hook ratio? Don't really know what it is, but from the show, it seems pretty bad... Drags set at 50-60#? Bluefin's mouth isn't iron plus the fish's inherent weight generates a lot of preloaded drag, or not?
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As for catching tuna quick as opposed to not so quick and getting more dollars, I don't buy it. I've had triple headers and caught all 3, fish 1 took 20 minutes, fish 2 took 50 minutes and fish 3 took 12 hours. Fish 1 and 2 made it on the ice while we where fighting number 3. Fish 3 never even made it on the ice and we just left him on the deck for the 15 hour ride home. And guess what.....fish 1 and 2 were junk and 3 yielded us one of our highest prices for the season. This is just one example and the opposite of the above has also happenend. You just get what you get and there's not much you can do about it. Most of the burned fish I have had happens at the side of the boat when they are tied off and "kick" for a long time and then just expire.
As for drag, if you fish a light drag it takes forever and you subject yourself to chaffing them off or just never getting them to the boat because the line just keeps coming off the reel...one foot in and one foot out....no thanks. We use a lot of drag and pull a hook here and there....it just was not in your deck of cards for the day. Too bad, suck it up and start fishing again.
As for the show and some of the drama and editing, we are all fishermen on this board and can see the finest detail. Keep in mind the editors are not fishermen and we are, I know but some of the scenes have nothing to do with being a fishermen....I don't know what to say about that. This show was made for your average Joe in Kansas, the masses, and not for fishermen. If it was for fishermen it would be on ESPN. The ratings tell the story and not the message boards. The last episode grew by a factor of 2, almost twice as many watched this past weekend compared to the episode before and the ratings have been good since day one. Also there has been stiff competition this season on sunday night and the ratings have still done very well.
As for Googans, I was once one too at one point in time and we all were and some may still be. Everyone is entitiled to fish in the ocean, however if you were on my boat and had boats anchor on you every day, all day, all season, you would get a little upset too. Nothing goes further than good judgement and common sense. No one needs to be 5 boat lenghts away from someone. Sure I do it to Kevin and Kevin does it to me. It's all in good fun, however and I'd rather have Kevin next to me instead of someone I don't know. Kevin will get out of the way in a heartbeat and have his anchor hauled up too.
Look at "Wicked Tuna" as an episode of "Desperate Housewives", except they give all the cast a pretty shinny rod and reel and tell them to go and catch tuna. Look at it and laugh or grind your teeth and call that guy an A%$ or don't look at it at all.
Thanks for watching and plenty of big fish to come.
Gotta go and make some turns in the snow with the Pinhead for a couple days.
