Tuna Fishing 7/2

[Sharkyispy]

After crashing my phone making calls all day and trying to put a crew together for a trip with a sponsor here, wound up heading out on a exploratory tuna fishing trip. Faced some "confused" seas on ride out with tight swells. Set up in early light and heard of a few tuna picked here and there and some sharks in the area. Finally hooked up with one, it runs and I then gain on it and feel some popping and then see it at the surface way back, Bad news was right behind it was a nice MAKO snacking away at it and ate 1/3 of the body. Continued to press on and faced a pending front and storm moving up from south. Rode it our for a bit and paid off. First with a football size tuna we watched jump up out of the water to crash the spreader bar. Safely released for another day. The next fish we came tight on was much better, @ 50lb fish not big in length, but round. Boated him up and sniffed around for one more before rain started up again and looked like another storm cell was heading our way. Glad to finally get back out there and able to catch a few of what we set out to find!

[jimmythegreek]

nice job sharky, good looking fish! nothing like scrambling to put a trip together and actually getting what you set out for! I feel your pain on the shark, lost my first tunny ever as a kid to a small thresher after fighting it for over an hour on light gear, everybodys gotta eat somehow.....

[Gerry Zagorski]

Good job Sharky.... Saw all your posts looking to get out. Sounds like you scratched your itch.

[Duffman]

Good stuff Mike!

Ever get a good look at the Mako? Try baiting him at all?

[Sharkyispy]

Originally Posted by Duffman

Good stuff Mike!

Ever get a good look at the Mako? Try baiting him at all?

Had a great look at MAKO and would have been "steaked up" but boat next to us at time and a couple others in the immediate area were sharking and set up with slicks....we were targeting tuna....Capt made a good call not to feed it back