Wifes first YFT or - is it a bigeye ?
Was up in coral bay from 5/10-11/10 blowing its guts out only managed to go out through north passage on one morning at 6:30. Pulled 2 of the old faithful Halco red deep divers looking for mackies in the 20 -30m line along with a 6inch green /yellow jethead with tuna in mind. Trolled for about 2 hours saw bust-ups and birds feeding out far so decided to head out. On the way there hooked two fish at once both on deep divers in 48m line. Wife got hers to the boat just before getting sharked and i managed to gaff it. Mates ran around the prop just before being eaten by the same shark and snapped off the leader his looked about the same size. Length of wifes was 103 cm I called it for about 10kg mate thought closer to 12kg. Ive never seen a YFT or a bigeye in the flesh yet which is it? - i presumed YFT but the two long fins in front of the tail dont look long enough (? cause its not full grown yet) - it did kind of have a pretty big eye in proportion to its head.
cell
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not 100% sure but I recon
not 100% sure but I recon could be a northern blue or is it southern blu they all loom the fkn same lol....defa tuna tho lol
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scotto
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Defo
Yft 100%, and not a bad one.
Geez I wish they were caught in numbers around metro
crasny1
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+1
However this always happen
Its like the Diamond trevally or Pennant fish arguement.
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smitho89
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Great
Great catch !
petervb
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Nice fish! I reckon its a
Nice fish! I reckon its a northern/ longtail though
Yewiefish85
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Yellowfin
Yellowfin
sea-kem
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I'll probably get ragged for
I'll probably get ragged for this but your wife's quite cute
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Doooma
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My guess is Long tail...The
My guess is Long tail...
The YFT fins are reeeeally long...
MattMiller
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Those of you
that think it's not a YFT here's what is on good old FISHWRECKAPEDIA.
Yellowfin Tuna - Thunnus albacaresYellowfin Tuna are dark metallic blue, changing to silver on the belly and with about 20 white vertical lines. There is a golden horizontal stripe running from eye to tail and often an iridescent blue stripe running parallel. The second dorsal and anal fin and the finlets between those fins and the tail are bright yellow, giving the fish their name. Larger Yellowfin (40kgs) are characterised by an extended second dorsal fin and anal fin giving the appearance of a sickle. The caudal keels on the wrist of the tail are dusky and never yellow as in the Southern Bluefin Tuna.
Juvenile yellowfin tuna have shorter dorsal and anal fins.
YFT can grow to over 100kgs and 2.1metres in length.
Yellowfin are rated second to Southern Bluefin Tuna for sashimi and behind Albacore when cooked. Bleeding and chilling the fish immediately on capture greatly improves the quality.
They are found in all Australian waters.
Doooma
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Well I stand corrected!!!
Well I stand corrected!!! ;-)
Unless we call it a Longtail yellow fin tuna ;-)
dodgy
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I'm leaning towards the
I'm leaning towards the longtail too. Little hard to tell without a good pic of the pectoral fin though. Longtails have a stumpier pec and the yellowfin/ bigeye have a longer and thinner profile pec.
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bitten
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its a yellow fin the anal
its a yellow fin the anal fin on a longtail is not yellow
bitten
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its a yellow fin the anal
its a yellow fin the big hint is the yellow fins
this is a longtail
http://fishwrecked.com/forum/pb-longtail-tuna
Rob H
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The smaller a tuna is, the
The smaller a tuna is, the harder a definitive ID is.
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Everyone's just winging it.
bitten
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I've caught hundreds of both
I've caught hundreds of both when I was professionally fishing that my friend is a yFT everyday of the week
Oceanside Tackle
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YFT
> for sure and congrats.
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Digger01
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Sea Kem - the fish.. look at the fish.
I think it is totally unreasonable that SeaKems remark goes without a response........
Seakem, pay attention...!! Beeroclock wanted your your opinion on the bloody fish, not the fish holder!!!
beeroclock
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Ha! Ha! - thats alright Digger01
She went to Bali with her friends the next day after our Coral Bay trip and hasn't seen this post yet - she will be more chuffed about Sea kem's reply than she was after catching her first descent YFT !
sea-kem
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Ha ha cheers guys. Some
Ha ha cheers guys. Some things catch your eye more than big fish sometimes ;)
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