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My highlight of the fishing season was on my first trip out in the boat. Was blind casting bucktails near a bunch of charter boat guys. It was to much work to keep an eye on what everyone one was doing so I motored away to a couple birds diving bombing some bait.
As I launched a BT near the birds, just before the BT hit the water the water erupted with small keep size Tuna. Before I could get "holy s!@t" out of my mouth a tuna grabs the BT and decides to head for RI. I was using an uglystick tiger and a Cabo50 spinning set up. I have never heard line come off that reel like this before. It was unreal!
I was steering, using the throttle, reeling, and pumping the rod for over an hour, trying to keep boat over the fish. Spooled 3 times and at one point I was making almost ten knots trying to keep up with the fish. I was a sweaty blob of goo.
Got the fish along side, we both stared at each other for a couple seconds until fish decided to bug out. Line parted.
The tuna bug is very real. I hope to get another chance to do battle again some day.
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