rare catch

[Mr. Kav]

Well i had an interesting day on saturday. i went out for a sight seeing troll and decided to try off nantasket after speaking with Van on the radio ( thanks for the report, Van). I was with my new girlfriend and she has never been fishing other than with me and i really haven't taken her fishing, just sight seeing. well my plan was to troll some deep divers and maybe a rigged herring to catch a decent size blue fish and watch her reel a fish in. Well I was trolling for about 30 minutes out about 6 miles parallel to nantasket when all of a sudden my rod (310 GTI 20 lb test with wire leader) starts screaming and screaming. Well i pick the rod up and feel that there is a nice fish and taking a ton of line on a fairly heavy drag setting so i lighten the drag down a bit put it in the rod holder and ran to the cabin to get a rod belt. she was standing there panicing, i could tell, so i acted as if this is the norm. So i put the rod belt on her put the rod in it and gave a brief intruction of " go slow and pull up and then reel down. Well after about 50 minutes and trying to quit the battle three different times she finally got the 31.5 lb bluefin tuna to the boat. She didn't want to hurt the fish so self control got the better of me and we released the fish. After we released the fish she says "wow fishing is hard work, but now i understand why you like it so much " There was no more fishing after that so i took her into boston got a slip for a few hours and went to fanuel hall, we sit down at an out door restaurant and the first thing she does is order a margarita ( and she does really drink ). what a great and surprising day saturday turned out to be.