Giant Tuna breaking everywhere
 

Headed to Stellwagon to jig for some cod. Didn't do so hot, so we decided to head back towards the Race and snap some wire. About three miles off shore I heard my buddy yell Holy Cow! (or something like that) Then I looked starboard to see, what looked like to me, the water after a whale breaks surface. I told him he just saw a hump-back, but he called me a moron and said just shut up and cast into those blue fish now. As I was tying on, I saw one. This thing must have easily have been 1400+, and it came all the way out of the water like a porpoise putting on a show at Sea World. It was the most amazing, huge thing I have ever seen. I guess seven giants were landed that night. I landed two blue fish. My buddy Rocko pulled in two line sides over 40", but no Tuna. Wow, coolest thing I ever saw. Now I just gotta go spend 3 grand on a nice tuna rig.

Was this saturday or sunday?

Saturday

I was out there sunday, and it was bumpy but lots of boats had the $3k tuna setups you mentioned.
It's got to be awesome live lining a bluefish for one of those monsters.

I've seen them come all the way out of the water like that in the east end of the Canal :eek:

Did you know that Mackerel can fly?

Yep

Put a GBF behind em, and they levitate about 6 inches off the water.

So do 10 pound bluefish :D

even with a 12/0 hook, 10 feet of 300lb mono, and another 50 yards of 130lb mono behind that :D :D :D


oh
and a balloon!

And maybe Turbo from Breakin 2, Electric Boogaloo.
He broke like crazy,
Or maybe breaked.
Fat Boys.....
Later,
Boogaloo Shrimp

Oh Yeah, Mikey.
It's Stellwagen.
Not Stellwagon, I think.
Love,
Mr. Spellchecker
I am to bust!!!

If any of you guys get down toward Snug Harbor Marina, they have a picture on the wall of a 1000+ Blue fin chasing a bluefish. Both Fish are about 5 feet above the surface. On the next frame the tuna us heading back onto the drink with the blue in his mouth....awesome.

There is a time series photo (super high speed film I guess) taken by one of the Murray brothers, maybe the same print, but it is my favorite fishing picture!
'hound

When you see a Giant Blue Fin leap in the canal , the first thing you do is look for someone else who saw it. Its so hard to believe you need someone else to tell you "yep , Your not crazy , I saw it too". :)

Still kinda gets me edgy when I hear one at night. Makes me hold up my casts for a few minutes, too. Last thing I wanna do is lose 300 yards of braid to one of those freight trains :eek:

bah

it'd be worth it to lose all 300 yards

it'd be more worth it if you could actually turn it ;)

You have as much chance of turning one of those as you have of turning a 38' Bertram that runs over yer line :D :laughs:

I've seen guys try, tho. Takes a BFT about 100 seconds to empty a Squidder on a running current. Even with the guy running down the service road as fast as he can. It's fun to watch :smash:

Yeah but atleast then you got about 20 people that were also standing there watching the pig fly by with your line at mach 3

;)

Best part of the show is when the guy clamps both his thumbs down on the spool to try and slow it down. I think they hear the "YEEEEOOOOWWWWWW" all the way to Nantucket.

Or when the guy leaves the rod in a spike with just the clicker on, and the line goes out so fast it backlashes. Usually the rod winds up wedged in the rocks before the 30# mono breaks

One thing about the Canal in the middle of the day---there's always the potential for a sideshow :D