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Water to table: Tuna school was definitely online

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  • caliking
    caliking Posts: 19,780
    Just reading this got my heart rate up. What a trip, and quite the bounty of fish!

    #1 LBGE December 2012 • #2 SBGE February  2013 • #3 Mini May 2013
    A happy BGE family in Houston, TX.
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  • lousubcap
    lousubcap Posts: 36,811
    edited June 2020
    What an incredible and well documented adventure.  No slack in that day's activities from the lines thru to the trip back to port.  Great way to diversify the menu as well.  All look like true banquets and yes you are eating well.  Nailed that across the board.
    Way to anticipate the conditions and play into the strengths you sorted out.  Yes, luck but a whole lot of skill involved as well.  Congrats!
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  • HendersonTRKing
    HendersonTRKing Posts: 1,803
    Haven’t been on much lately but this post is the sort of thing that keeps me coming back. What a trip!  What great eats!  Bravo!
    It's a 302 thing . . .
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  • elpescadorzih
    elpescadorzih Posts: 46
    Nice post Mark!
    Looks like it was a blast! Amazing!
    Every once in a while the stars line up for an epic day on the water. 
    Love those bloody decks!
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  • gmanrva
    gmanrva Posts: 429
    Tight lines!!
    What an epic trip..
    Glad you caught'em up like that. I would love to have a trip like that. I have only expericened that kind of chaos with rockfish in the chesapeake bay.
    LGE Mechanicsville Va, XLGE Wake Va., LGE Duck NC.
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  • loco_engr
    loco_engr Posts: 5,818
    What a great post!  Totally out of my wheel house
    aka marysvilleksegghead
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  • MotownVol
    MotownVol Posts: 1,072
    Oh my.  So impressed.
    Morristown TN, LBGE and Mini-Max.
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  • REB17
    REB17 Posts: 184
    Great write up and pics. Curious what your take is on the recent popularity of the wicked tuna series and the one where the young man captains his family boat out of Glouchester, MA? Entertaining to watch but I'm always skeptical of these reality shows. 
    LGBE-1999, MBGE-2003, SBGE-2007

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  • Sea2Ski
    Sea2Ski Posts: 4,131
    REB17 said:
    Great write up and pics. Curious what your take is on the recent popularity of the wicked tuna series and the one where the young man captains his family boat out of Glouchester, MA? Entertaining to watch but I'm always skeptical of these reality shows. 
    @REB17 I occasionally watch that show, but usually not, so I do not know who you are talking about taking his family boat out exactly.  In general,  the editing is horrible.  If you watch closely, someone will be fighting a fish, then in the next shot, they are in different clothes, or the line on the reel is a different color, or the weather conditions changed from one way to another and then back again....  that stuff drives me nuts. Let’s see, what else....  I really like the beeping of the sounder then the hookup that follows seconds later. The same way every time. Ummm - usually it does not happen that way.  Sometimes yes, but always?  Nope. 
      As far as the clicking of the drag click..click...click...SCREAM!  No. Usually when chumming, the reel goes from 0 to screaming in 1 second. A tuna, when feeding with other tuna in a school is swimming aggressively at 10+ knots and more often than that, much faster - especially those giant bluefin- they are fast!  
    Landing the fish.  All the drama with landing the fish is insane. A good crew that spends days on the water catching these big fish barely have to talk. They know each others moves and it can be like watching a great 2 on 3 breakaway in hockey. The communication is through experience. And the guys who throw the flying gaff 3,4,5 times and miss? Nope.  Captains will not tolerate that. Sure there may be a miss, but they are not going to allow someone miss that often that many times to stay on the boat.  
    Also, the payout. The price they get at the dock is the anticipated price at auction. The boat or wholesaler is responsible for the shipping.  So while they may say a fish is worth say 10,000 at dock, that is not what they get.  They have to pay the shipping. Let’s say it is 1,000 for that, then the wholesaler takes 10%. So let’s say the fish really sells for 5,000. The fisherman now gets 5000-1000-500(10% of the 5k sale) = $3,500.  Factor in fuel, insurance, boat maintenance and the fact it is a short season, it can be rough.  But like in all professions, some do very well. These guys on the show are getting endorsements and do advertising to have stuff on their boats and their gear.  Talk about kickbacks...

    What is real are the conditions and long hours and extreme frustration when a fish is lost.  

    In the end, like all reality series, The vast majority of things can and do happen in reality, but for tv they are staged, overly embellished or greatly exaggerated. But that is what makes it entertaining.

    I would like to talk to a few of those guys for real, or better yet go out with them a few times. But noT for the reasons you may think. I have no desire to catch one that big for some reason. 
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