Tuna, tuna, tuna!

[lukesnapper]

Went down the coast for a weeks holiday only to arrive upon perfect conditions outside! Seeing this I couldn't help but drive all the way home to pick up the boat! Headed out of the seaway on Saturday morning with my dad at first light and headed for a close reef. Fished it for an hour with no results but two small tailor and a grinner! >:( The conditions looked to be getting even better, so decided to head down to the reef off Broadbeach. Things were quiet using bait so we decided to catch some live yakkas, floating them out 3m under a balloon. This paid off as we began pulling in tuna after tuna, the biggest going 7kg, with the rest around 6-6.5kg. :D Man they put up a good fight! We also had four hookups which we could not stop. >:( I was planning on using them for bait but dad told me they were good eating, so we bled and filleted them and I was actually quite surprised how nice they tasted, a bit like steak really... nothing like out of the can! After catching five of them we pulled the pin with a full esky, only to cruise home on glassed out conditions - what a day!

[lukesnapper]

7kg tuna

[lukesnapper]

dads tuna

[lukesnapper]

overall catch

[Big_Ren]

Some solid fish Luke. The first shot is an absolute postcard. What a day.

Cheers
Paul

[pegasus]

Luke,

Congratulations to you and your Dad. Solid fish- yeh dont they pull :). Nice pics
best regards,

lew

[choppa]

and no sign of john west,,,,,,,,,absolutley a top catch mate,,,,does this mean you may be changing your handle?????? :D :D :D :D

[lukesnapper]

4 sure choppa!! :)

[nigelr]

Great post Luke.
Nothin' better than a good day on the briny!
Cheers.

[Benno]

Excellent work Luke, that first shot is fantastic.

Ben

[Daniel_Trenfield]

Try some raw tuna sashimi with soy & wasabi.

Cut flesh into pieces the size of a matchbox, only half the thickness.

Dip into sauce & you've got a delicacy.

Dan.

[kingcobe]

Holy jesus they're are some good tunas you got there.


Jay Jay

[kingcobe]

Holy jesus they're some good tunas you got there.


Jay Jay

[TIM-DONSELAAR]

nice mack tuna there guys #[smiley=thumbsup.gif] [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

cheers tim #;)

[slyham75]

well done boy i should have head out damn it ...

[Jeremy]

nice mack tuna there guys #[smiley=thumbsup.gif] [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

cheers tim #;)

look like longtails to me Tim :o

Jeremy

[Az]

well done guys, there wasa heap of bait around wasn't there and seemed to be a few tuna around with them!

[nuffy]

excelent bait dont rate them to highly on the table plenty better eating fish out there.top effort.

[-Henno-]

Are they macs or longtails? I have never heard of anybody eating, and then enjoying mac tuna before. They just don't look long enough to be longtail though.

[Clint06]

definately mack tuna - longtails dont have the spots below the pectoral fins or those markings above the lateral line and longtails are, as themooks put it, longer :P
I worked with guy that loved to eat mack tuna provided it was bled immediately- i always thought he was a bit strange though :o
For me mack tuna = bait.

[Jeremy]

had another look, and now I can see the wavy blue lines on the top of the fish, so definitely mack tuna. I agree, bait only.

Jeremy

[Gbanger]

mate i think i drove past you, did you see a blue bluefin bowrider?

i should have stayed there!!

[timddo]

Luke snapper, looks like a tinnie,what type of boat and lenght have you got.

[wayne_cook]

macks fb holden!

[Burley_Boy]

Ok You've forced me to make a post on my own effort... ::)
Congrats on the Tuna buddy and yes they do pull hard.
An 8kg tuna both feeds the kids and the dog and plenty left for bait ;D
But I'll do another post on that story...
A sunny day on the water just makes you love life.

[White_Steenbras]

Terrible conditions not!!!! No tuna NOT!!!! Very JEALOUS YES!!!!! Need that boat.

Good fun you had, not!!!!

[lukesnapper]

timddo....
its a 5.35 sea-jay with a 60 4 stroke yamy.


g,banger dont remember cing u there mate. pitty u didnt stay hey.


and i agree with only using them 4 bait but i must say one of them tasted not too bad at all. nothin beats snapper tho! ;)