HUGE TUNA

[Squeakyboatcaptain]

It's killing me not be able to fish!!!! This BIG Yellowfin Tuna swam around the boat for 3 hrs....just cruising the surface...Never seen one just hanging around, just idling like this..They are usually gun and run! I have a nice diamond jig that would look good hanging out of his mouth!!! He is probably well over 100 lbs!




Love me some fresh Tuna steaks! meat still quivering when it hits the grill!

 

[SaltyBuckster]

That's some beautifull blue water.I've had some real fresh yellowfin in my life.Nothing better.

 

[BucktailJiger]

Thats awesome . Man that water is pretty , were are you ?

 

[Fatman]

You'd think the guys would want you to catch it so they could have fresh fish for dinner!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Squeakyboatcaptain]

Everyone here wants to catch it.... But it is against BP policy to fish within 500 meters of one of their facilities... We are about 60 nautical miles east of the mouth of the Mississippi river.

 

[toadfrog]

Fish figured out it is a safe zone . Kind of like deer go to property where they aren't allowed to be hunted.

 

[Squeakyboatcaptain]

They are everywhere....inside the zone and out....
You can see how close we are working to the structure in this picture..


There is a small catamaran sport fisher out here...At least someone gets to fish!!!

 

[Radtexan]

Nice.........That water sure looks better than the Gulf I have seen...

 

[Squeakyboatcaptain]

This is the DEEP BLUE.... Outer continental shelf. We are only a few miles from where the deepwater Horizon went down 2 years ago.

 

[StumpHunter]

Awesome pics!!

 

[Fatman]

Nice pics!!!!!

 

[ScottV]

Those are some nice pics. That water looks like someone's swimming pool. Is that the same tuna they are after on the TV show "Wicked Tuna"?

 

[AtticaFish]

Man 'o man - that would absolutely HURT me to watch that fish swimming around and no line in the water. See alot of the off shore fishing shows (bass to billfish one of them) that go straight out to those rigs to fish. Solitary piece of 'structure' out in the middle of big blue nothing.

 

[Squeakyboatcaptain]

No.... The wicked Tuna show... Are looking for Bluefins .... Which we do have a small number of in the gulf, but most of our tunas are yellowfins and blackfins ...and they don't get near as big as those bluefin monsters!!
BUT.... a 100-120lb tuna is fun to catch!!! It's killing me!!!! Ahhhhhh!!

 

[Fatman]

You know they put the ban on fishing cause they want you WORKING not trying to catch dinner!!!!!!!