Mako's right...
For eating you want that fish out of the water and on deck and bleeding as fast as possible.
While ch#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&g flies at em is fun for the fight, you want to keep them footballs? Break out the heavy spinning gear/boat rods.
Just be sure you got a GOOD boat handler who can run em down right, which a good portion of the time can cut a fight in half.
These aren't exactly big blues or bass that you can muscle in, laying into 100+lb tuna is indeed a battle.
I got a Penn Senator around here that's had its sideplates flexed out under load from a football on steroids, hense the big gear kicking around.
