First Giant Bluefin Tuna on Firstlight

We caught our first Giant Bluefin Tuna September 3rd, 2016

  • 97 inches
  • 362.5 lbs dressed (head, tail and organs off/out)
  • Fought for a little over two and a half hours

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Core and tail sample for the dealer to judge the quality and potential price
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We turned down Shimano and Simrad for sponsors and went with Marshall’s for the lame $9 hats and Coppertone lol.

FYI: I’m sitting on Pollock guts.

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We ran out of balloons LOL…so we went mad max style with clean up glovestuna-balloontuna-bangeduptuna-cutting
We had to drag it home since we are waiting to get a gin pole installed to help us haul it into the boat. tuna-drag-intuna-tail-cutWe get to keep the tail and head steakstuna-tail-head-steaks
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