Disgruntled Tuna Men

[Iwannakeeper]

Originally Posted by Slick Moedee

Albacore = Albacore

White Tuna (Sushi Menu) = Escolar (don't eat too much...)

Albacore and Escolar are both called "white tuna" but they are radically different fish.

Sushi white tuna (shiro=white and maguro=tuna) is albacore, the same fish that goes into canned tuna. They are long-finned tuna that I am catching out here on the west coast - out of California, Oregon and Washington.

Escolar are also nicknamed white tuna, but are not the same thing. Escolar are tropical or temperate water fish and are really oily and cause problems. I have only heard of them being caught in South and Central America. they look different and are crazy oily/waxy. and if you eat a lot you get a form of diarrhea with oily discharge - just like olestra (remember those commericals).

look up escolar - makes you not want to eat it. I have tried it smoked.....its good...and fishy. I like it, but after reading up, not going to buy it again

[jasonsnova]

it was like wicked tuna radio on Jefferies Saturday.... I got out there for first light set up on the edge of the cove....soon all the other "real tuna guys came in" and set up on either side of us. we had everyone on wicked tuna chatting up a storm...well everyone except tuna .com. we had ralph and the odesea right next to us. I belive some were on ground fish carters ...I know odesea was tuna fishing.
no one I know of caught any tuna , we didn't mark any and only got punished by blue dogs....

[Typhoon]

Originally Posted by jasonsnova

it was like wicked tuna radio on Jefferies Saturday.... I got out there for first light set up on the edge of the cove....soon all the other "real tuna guys came in" and set up on either side of us. we had everyone on wicked tuna chatting up a storm...well everyone except tuna .com. we had ralph and the odesea right next to us. I belive some were on ground fish carters ...I know odesea was tuna fishing.
no one I know of caught any tuna , we didn't mark any and only got punished by blue dogs....

Odysea came by us at 11am Sunday in P-town. He must've steamed down in the morning.

[jasonsnova]

Originally Posted by Typhoon

Odysea came by us at 11am Sunday in P-town. He must've steamed down in the morning.

ya someone asked him on the radio how pirate was and he said he hangs out in front of the liquor store and takes pics and signs autographs for six packs! lol
some of the stuff they were talking about was hilarious