Yellow Fin Tuna
Submitted by Billybuchman on Thu, 2011-03-10 15:52
Hi all - couldn't resist posting a pic of my Yellow Fin from out the back of Rotto last Friday...
Caught on a spinning rig with 20lb braid. He tipped the scales at a whisker over 40lbs bled and completely burnt out and seized the drag after the first massive run. Pretty happy to get him in the boat.
Cheers,
James
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petervb
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nice yellowtail mate!
nice yellowtail mate!
thesupervisor
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very nice well done how did
very nice well done
how did it taste?
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Billybuchman
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Sensational! Fresh sashimi
scottland
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very nice
but bloody hell they bleed
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hlokk
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Nice yellowfin. Would have
Nice yellowfin. Would have been awesome fun on a spinning reel.
As soon as I saw the thread I knew the fish would be 18kg :p. Seems to be a very common size for YFT off perth. Same with the bluefins, you tend to get the 2-3kg schools and then the 7-8kg schools, but not much inbetween or bigger. Nearly all the YFT's i've heard off perth have been 20kg. Anyone know what the explanation is? (guessing they hang around different spots at different life stages, and before and after that weight they're hanging around elsewhere).
The_Wanderer
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Hlokk heard rumuors about a
Hlokk heard rumuors about a 90kg Yellowfind being caught in the past couple of weeks any one heard/confirm this?
hlokk
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Dont know about recently, but
Dont know about recently, but the YFT records were beaten last year at 90kg or so. I think the bigger ones are up kalbarri/shark bay-ish. I've caught 6-7kg ones at the abrolhos. Just seems the overwhelming majority in Perth are 18-20kg (though diff sizes in the rest of the state).
Tony Halliday
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one confirmed 40~45kg YFT
one confirmed 40~45kg YFT taken off the trench, word is by a PGF boat.
so not long before we see 50kg+++ fish in the waters with the warm currents and schools coming in close.
Long liners & deepwater netters will tell you there is big tuna out wide and deep, but for some reason they don't come in to that 50~70km range of the coast we can reach with our boats.
Then again, back in SAFFA land we would go 50miles out to sea to get big tuna off Cape Point, maybe we not going far enough out and looking in the right spots...
Tony Halliday: ~Meals on Reels ~
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The_Wanderer
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Yeah they were taken off
Yeah they were taken off Exmouth by some junior Anglers, I think the boat might have been reel teaser??? Just remember seeing them on the front of hot bite they were massive!! Would love to get stuck into one.
thesupervisor
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bit off topic but do we catch
bit off topic but do we catch albacore here at some point?
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till
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Not really, pretty rare.
Not really, pretty rare.
scottland
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pretty rare
but then again so are marlin in geographe bay haha
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cuthbad
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beautifull tuna mate!!
beautifull tuna mate!!
dkonig82
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Great tuna! Conditions dont
Great tuna!
Conditions dont look like they were too bad out there either.
What sort of depth were you in?
When asked by a non-fisherman 'how many fishing rods do you really need?' the correct answer is either:
n+1 (where n is the number of fishing rods you currently own); or
n-1 (where n is the number of fishing rods which would cause your significant other to dump you.
Billybuchman
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Windy early (east) and windy
Windy early (east) and windy late (sw) but pretty good in the middle, pretty deep - couple miles out past the last FAD before Sth Africa........
alfred
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Good fish there - congrats on
Good fish there - congrats on a good sized metro YFT.
SamC
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Sashimi
Ohh yeh good metro YFT.
I lived of fresh Yellowfin all last week, now i am having serious withdrawls!
Cheers,
Sam
till
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Very jealous, looks delicious
Very jealous, looks delicious and top fun to catch!
Rick
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Great fish
I bet you knew when that hit the lure would have smoked off some line pretty quick
Well done
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Heinz
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Great catch mate.Spewin bout
Great catch mate.
Spewin bout the drag seizing up, great effort getting him in after that happened
Faulkner Family
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the damage to the reel is
the damage to the reel is worth it when you get something like that up from the deep blue. well done, one fish to be proud of
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soupster51
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Nice
Great fish. I know that would have gone hard on spinning gear. Top capture.
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Tony Halliday
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nice and sweatttttttttt
nice and sweatttttttttt Finaly hope for good sized game fish in Perth Metro at last.
and a good size for change. I miss big YFT that we get in SAFFA land.
And can you think what it would have been like if it was a 80kg one...lol... THEY FIGHT HARD!!!!
I blew up a TLD25 with 50lb mono on it back in 2003 on a YFT, smoked me, the reel and took all the line with it!!!
Well done.
Tony Halliday: ~Meals on Reels ~
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it
"It is always in season for old men to learn." Aeschylus (525-456 BC)
"In a mad world only the mad are sane." Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998)