Tuna season 2011 goes off with a BANG

This year, being my first tuna season seemed to be pretty uniform with what I've read regarding tuna fishing; of the 7 or so times we shot out to sea, I saw 0 yellowfin boated and all I caught myself were small albacore.

Not much of a result, but I had a good idea since the start what tuna fishing would be like.

There were however the random golden moments between hours and hours of dropping jigs down, cubing and trolling (sleeping).

The jig having a rest whilst I take in the sunset

My mate Ben got his first Marlin, in the middle of winter.....

Stripey jumping with Sydney in the background

Hooked up

The business end

Nice 200lb stripe marlin. Not a blue but it still jumps and has a stick on its face!!!

Just when I had gotten complacent with doughnut sessions.. Out came the 100kilo Bluefin tuna!
We were cubing near a break out Heatons way when it hotted up all of a sudden.
Result - one big Thunny busted off, and one TLD-breaking beast of a blue fin tuna receiving a few gaffs to the face and being dragged aboard.

Hooked up on 24

Snap

The holy grail; Ed's 220lb bluefin tuna out of Sydney

So for now it's time to recover financially and prepare for next year's attempts.

Things I've learnt I can improve on for next year:

-More line capacity, go slightly heavier.

-Focus around certain moon periods ;)

-No bananas on board