Landing a big bluefin
I went out to Cape Cod bay last week looking for the schools of bluefin tuna our scouts had been describing for the past few weeks. We hit the water around 9 am with Dave Bebon of Capitol Mercury Apparel and his dedicated employee Tim Shields. The 18-foot Maritime Skiff rolled through the 4-6 foot swells effortlessly with Tim's expert piloting skills. It wasn't long before we spotted large schools of surfacing bluefin, some in the 200 pound range.
Dave cast a Deadly Dick metal spoon and I fired a 5-ounce Crippled Herring. I hooked up my second cast to what turned out to be a 60-70 pound bluefin. Of course the fish hit and vaporized 300 yards of forty pound Diawa braided line off my 8000 Shimano Stella spinning reel in a few seconds. My new Loomis 7'9" Bacura spinning rod performed flawlessly as I put heavy pressure on the fish. I got it to the side of the boat in about 30 minutes and boated the fish with Sushi on our minds.
The rest of the day was spent running and gunning after multiple schools of fish, hooking up and loosing them due to equipment failures, angler fatigue and just pure mayhem. We returned to the dock happy campers and headed back to Connecticut for a bluefin feast.
Labels: angler, bluefin, Cape Cod fishing
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Nice! Now I want to hear more!
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