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Check this story from Capt Mitch.
hate to sousnd like the old salt who likes to spin yarns of
yesteryear, but here goes anyway. I can remember back in the
fifties(1950's) when we routinely fished off Nebraska shoals. I saw tuna
pushing tinker Mackeral back then almost right up on the beach. Another
time, the famous Hunky Clark fought a tuna that swam right in the beach
amongst swimers. The whole story is probobly best told by drew D'Angelo
of the Meridee who fishied with Hunky for a few years when he was in
college. Other stories of giants being taken in the traps and shore
fishermen getting stripped and bracking surf rods were common back then.
I never have heard about a tuna being taken from the beach,but I have a
story almost as unbeleivable. Want to hear it? Well I'll tell it anyway.
I had the Sakarak up on the Cape and we were fishing the Southwest
corner of Steelwagon bank with Manny costa a long-time freind of my
dads. After fishing the corner from daybreak till about 11:00 Am without
a bite I made a call for some advice. Manny hadn't left the dock to my
knowledge as of yet but said he had a 6oo pound blue-fin on the scales
as we spoke. HOw could that be? Well seems one of the big boys had swam
into Provincetown harbor and was munching on the by-catch falling off a
dragger at the commercial wharf. His mate and another fellow harpooned
the fish right off the dock in front of on-lookers and tourists. And
that's the truth!
I hope you all appreciate the info I was saving it for a book Ha Ha Ha
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Capt. Mitch
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