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Said only 45 minute fight. Impressive It dang sure is for a fish that big and strong! If whoever is driving the boat knows what they are doing surprisingly it doesn't take that long. Sounds like the daddy and the captain was some ole salts. Yup cus that fish could've easily gone 5-6 hours
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Best part they did it with 80 class reel with 100# line, not getting dumped and 45 minutes that's impressive boat handling skills.
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Best part they did it with 80 class reel with 100# line, not getting dumped and 45 minutes that's impressive boat handling skills. When i first started reading I was expecting to see 130 class reels.
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Booner
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There is 2 different high fence. 1 small and one big! Mine was free range in the big pen and was not a breeder buck. Why does it have to be twisted around??
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David don't say that you'll give Jason a heart attack. His new boat is that big!  His boat is nice. Real nice. I seen it with my own 2 eyes.
“Killing tomorrow’s trophies today.”
On the distance I like to walk to my stands:
“The first 100 yards is also the last 100 yards.”
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good for him but I don't think he battled it. If you ever hooked a big tuna you would know why.
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Whoever is happy will make others happy too. Anne Frank
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LUCK:::; When presistence, dedication, perspiration and preparation meet up with opportunity!!!
- - - - - - - -A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you have. Thomas Jeferson - - - - - - - -
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Where the fish was hooked ccan make all the difference. Lip hooked tuna... they can fight forever! Especiallly if they can stay below the thermocline. If they are gullet hooked sometimes they really come to the boat fast if you put some pressure on.
Regardless...a good job.
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Booner
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You get a jig stuck in their mouth so it jams the mouth open and they come right to the boat. Dangerous once they're on board if they have any size to them. Be ready to bash them in the head if you don't have an ice box big (and strong) enough to hold them.
Whoever is happy will make others happy too. Anne Frank
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Back about 20 years ago the fish & game folks said bluefin didn't come into the gulf much at all - just a freak thing when someone catchs one. A friend of mine caught a big bluefin that got off the hook at boatside over on the La. Tx. border , I had never heard of a bluefin in the gulf at that time .
Great catch for sure 835lbs. .
Play some Skynyrd man !
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Everyone involved in landing the fish has to have a commercial license in order to sell it. I doubt that was the case. Ain't the gov't great?
"The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing... compared to the misery of not being exploited at all."
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Gary's Fluffer
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Everyone involved in landing the fish has to have a commercial license in order to sell it. I doubt that was the case. Ain't the gov't great? Wonderful. I remember a few years ago when a lady angler on a commercial boat caught the first legal bluefin of the year that was worth an estimated $900k in the Japanese market, but they couldn't sell it because she didn't have a commercial license.
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I am Cornholio
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If you’re a common sense person, you probably don’t feel you have a home in this world right now. If you’re a Christian, you know you were never meant to.
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14 point
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Everyone involved in landing the fish has to have a commercial license in order to sell it. I doubt that was the case. Ain't the gov't great? Wonderful. I remember a few years ago when a lady angler on a commercial boat caught the first legal bluefin of the year that was worth an estimated $900k in the Japanese market, but they couldn't sell it because she didn't have a commercial license. wonder if she could gift it to someone who does.
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What's crazy is that he filleted it instead of selling it. I bet it was worth $10k or more They've got a 58' boat and a captain, I doubt they care 3 270qt coolers full of steaks is a lot though Yeah that's not much more than lunch money for those folks. Congrats to the young man. I agree, they are definitely taxpayers with a setup like that.
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Yeah c�mon. Daniel White
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Damn, I didn't know what I was going to see when I clicked this thread. For some reason I thought another school teacher had been arrested!
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