NIB,

I was wondering if chumming would hold them in tight to the boat...did they stick around?

Got my first SBFT this morning :smokin: Three of us hooked six, landed two, kept one at 34 inches, not sure of the weight. And didnt even need a van staal to do it :bl:

Alriiiiiighty, Bill :kewl: nice job!

And no VS, huh - here I was thinking they couldn't be caught without one...:hihi:

You two are bad... :vamp: :jump1: Glad you got into em!! Lets see some pics Bill!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We had bout 15 galls of fresh spearing seined the night before.we anchored up an never moved for 5 hrs.Only time i ever went tuna fishin get invited out alot but 36 hrs on a boat can be kinda much.

Its not the reel, its the line capacity. ;)

hook one in the tail and watch how quickly your spool disapears :hihi:

Use any smaller spin reel on enough of these fish and it will die, it's just a matter of when. My VS100 is off to Tulsa...

It has handled a LOT of hardtails though.

I'm one jealous mother

I got five more yesterday :), Four with Roger (who got 4 including his first) and one later on Trayder's ThunderPig :hihi:

And Tomorrow .s another day :jump1:

Mike those pictures are freakin awesome. I am putting that one of them busting the surface on my wall.

I'll gladly toast my reels on these fish!

Hey T -don,t ya need the photographer,s permission ???? :wiggle: :humpty:

Nice job guys! sweet pics Mike

Eben, I bet that snagger was one heck of a freight train :uhuh:

f #$%^& East wind killed my trip for today :wall:

I was going to go too but blew it off this am....they should stick around a little while longer. I had my 2# and 4# noodle rod rigged and ready to go and a live well going with a few live sand eels and baby herring in there :wiggle: It was probably going to fry the drag but what-the-hell.

We need this front to pass.

Congrats on the fish Bill, trying to get out this week for my 1st tuna, i hope :cheers:

:uhuh: :kewl: :btu: :cheers:

Bernzy

Attaboy Bill the smile says it all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Someone on this site caught a 13.8 bonito today // not me /// :uhuh:

Mike sure it was a bone? That would be a whopper! May have been an Albie which usually run bigger?

Ya Salty /that,s the first thing I said to him //but he said he checked & it was a Bonito ?????????// :pop:

wow Any idea what the state record is? It's gotta be something around that for a bone. I'd almost be willing to bet it was an albie....he got any pics?

John,
We got into them on Sunday too. Jim and I managed to bust his boat's tuna cherry. :heybaby: Them Cotton Cordells sure do the trick.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...rdCC/SBFT1.jpg

JIm -- I,m glad to see ya got TUNA --But the best thing is ya got blood all over the F %^&*& boat ... :drool:

RISAA lists the state Record as 13lb even...
tell whoever it was it coulda been a record...