Tuna ID
Submitted by silly on Sat, 2012-09-15 21:18
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Got out for an inshore fish this morn and a school of tuna started feeding within 50m or so from the boat. Wacked on a metal and managed to land one. Initially thought was SBT (time of year & it had the white lines on the belly. got it home and filleted it. The flesh was alot more red/pink than I remember them being. So what are your thoughts? Southern blue or a very lost longtail?
Cheers
Ps. Also got a 5 kg stripey on the troll.
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Rob H
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Bit hard to tell without a
Bit hard to tell without a pic but flesh colour varies widely in tuna such as SBT YFT and BET depending on habitat condition etc and i certainly wouldnt use it to id one
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silly
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Sorry pic now up..
Sorry pic now up..
till
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Looks like an sbt to me, pity
Looks like an sbt to me, pity about the size!
Rob H
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It can be extremely
It can be extremely difficult to tell a big eye from a sbt in the smaller sizes-wouldnt like to say
Give a man a mask, and he'll show you his true face...
The older you get the more you realize that no one has a f++king clue what they're doing.
Everyone's just winging it.
Travisd
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+1 BET
Eye and pectoral but silly size does matter - why do u go wide when I'm working?
Baron Sportsman
Just the depth that Varies
Rig
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not a long tail
I dont think its a long tail, I have caugh heaps of them around the 3 mile in summer. I am am going with big eye
silly
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Cheers guys thinking it's a
Cheers guys
thinking it's a big eye then. Definatley different to the SBT's I've got before