Fishing Report - Blue Fin Tuna 7/7/2008

When: 7/7/2008
Where: Green Harbor, MA
What: Estimated over 300lb. 77" Blue Fin Tuna

Equipments Used
Rod: PSR 102-40C. G.Loomis
Reel: Saltiga 50. Daiwa
Jig: Green Metallic Sardine 7 oz.
Line: 80 LB, Deep One Tuna Jigging Line + Tuf Line Plus 80 LB.

At 5:40 AM we left dock, and we were looking for fish. We couldn’t find any until about 3 PM and we almost gave up. With all hope lost, I cast my jig below to about 140 feet. After about 2 minutes of jigging, something big was hooked. I fought over 3 hours with this one. After the first 50 minutes, I was able to bring it up to the surface but it was out of reach of our gaff. Then, it bolted down fast and hard down below about 40 to 50 feet. This continued for the next hour or so. We didn’t have a harpoon which made it so hard. If we had one, we could’ve ended this fight in less than an hour. But, when all is said and done, it is a beautiful fish that was worth every second of the fight.