bluefin from beach

[nightfighter]

I know this will sound like the ultimate fish story, but a board member can and I hope will confirm this for the record.....

After work I was headed out to Marblehead Neck to my favorite spot. Just after passing the first house on the right I see a commotion in the water, very close to the beach. So I pull into a driveway and jump out with rod and bag in hand. The commotion was gone, so I cast out beyond the chocolate drops as the tide hits dead low. nothing doing.

Then I see Ari, a familiar face during the fall run, but mostly I see him jogging. He had seen the commotion too, but had located its new position. By the time I reach him he had taken a 50-60 lb (my guess) bluefin tuna out of the low water WITH HIS HANDS!!!! It was still alive, though in its final struggle. We surmise that it had gotten caught in the tidal flats as the tide dropped. Eyes were clear, bottom of tail fin scrapped up pretty good from the rocks, no hooks, but bleeding from mouth and gills.

After waving down a well known fisherman locally, who was driving by, we proceeded to quarter the fish and split up the soon to be tuna steaks! Cooler and ice from my brothers house and where's the wasabi?!?!

Thanks for guidance on cleaning tuna. The tail is going on Ari's garage. Strange aint it?