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 04/14/2011 09:41 AM
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TUNATOKER
Joined: 11/24/2010
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re: Yellowfin vs Bluefin
Oakey520 wrote:
Have any of you been back east to fish for big tuna?
those aren't tuna. there whales with sickle fins 
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04/17/2011 09:41 AM
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Oakey520
Joined: 04/02/2011
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re: Yellowfin vs Bluefin
Northy wrote:
I live east. Are you talking schoolies or giants?
I am from New Jersey, also lived in Boston for three years. I have lived out here in cal for a couple years. have fished for all sizes of bluefins got a 750 lb last year in Ipswich bay...four miles from the dock.....home by lunch drinking a cold beer on my friends deck.
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04/17/2011 09:51 AM
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Oakey520
Joined: 04/02/2011
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re: Yellowfin vs Bluefin
POACHER wrote:
I will be fishing with Basil,Tim Turis and Jim Carlisle for Giants off Prince Edward Island the first week of September this year.
Ken Cirks,
Not sure who those guys are, but sounds like a great trip. Is it still catch and release in PEI? I hear they get real man's tuna up there....rumors that ya see nothing under 500 lbs.
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04/17/2011 10:20 AM
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wahoodad
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re: Yellowfin vs Bluefin
Oakey520 wrote:
POACHER wrote:
I will be fishing with Basil,Tim Turis and Jim Carlisle for Giants off Prince Edward Island the first week of September this year.
Ken Cirks,
Not sure who those guys are, but sounds like a great trip. Is it still catch and release in PEI? I hear they get real man's tuna up there....rumors that ya see nothing under 500 lbs.
They are some very good tuna fishermen, that's who they are. I am looking forward to hearing their evaluation of the species difference.
IMO, pound for pound, YFT kicks BFTs butts by a huge margin.
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04/17/2011 10:53 AM
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Oakey520
Joined: 04/02/2011
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re: Yellowfin vs Bluefin
wahoodad wrote:
Oakey520 wrote:
POACHER wrote:
I will be fishing with Basil,Tim Turis and Jim Carlisle for Giants off Prince Edward Island the first week of September this year.
Ken Cirks,
Not sure who those guys are, but sounds like a great trip. Is it still catch and release in PEI? I hear they get real man's tuna up there....rumors that ya see nothing under 500 lbs.
They are some very good tuna fishermen, that's who they are. I am looking forward to hearing their evaluation of the species difference.
IMO, pound for pound, YFT kicks BFTs butts by a huge margin.
I respectfully disagree...and fear this age old argument will never be answered. While I have never caught a big yellowfin(110 lbs) I have caught some big bluefin. The problem lies in the water depth where these giants are taken. you hook a giant bluefin in the abyss from an anchored boat that fish is gone...game over. they catch them in 100-200 feet of water so the bluefins take off on long runs and you can follow them....they never dive down hundreds of feet where the real brutal battles occur. I may never catch a big yellowfin as my desire to pull on big tuna has waned with the years. I am middle aged at 38 and do not have the desire to get into hours long battles. When me and my friends were young we used to get huge old senators or penn int. 80's or 130's and hook giant bluefins on full drag with just a belt. the game was to see how long we could "hang" on. I was a good sized guy at 6'2...225 and used to bench press and squat a ton.I held on for five minutes once...
I had a friend who fished prince edward island years ago back in the 1980's. I may be mistaken but i believe he said they fished them in 80 feet of water. not much place to go other then straight out. The big yellowfin taken on the boats in san diego are big beautiful fish my breath was taken away when I saw the red rooster come in with a few yellowfins over 200 lbs...I could not process what I was looking at. However, if you love tuna, you owe it to yourself to see one that is nine feet long. They are marvels of nature and quite possibly the king of all fish.
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04/17/2011 11:13 AM
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wahoodad
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re: Yellowfin vs Bluefin
Oakey520 wrote:
wahoodad wrote:
Oakey520 wrote:
POACHER wrote:
I will be fishing with Basil,Tim Turis and Jim Carlisle for Giants off Prince Edward Island the first week of September this year.
Ken Cirks,
Not sure who those guys are, but sounds like a great trip. Is it still catch and release in PEI? I hear they get real man's tuna up there....rumors that ya see nothing under 500 lbs.
They are some very good tuna fishermen, that's who they are. I am looking forward to hearing their evaluation of the species difference.
IMO, pound for pound, YFT kicks BFTs butts by a huge margin.
I respectfully disagree...and fear this age old argument will never be answered. While I have never caught a big yellowfin(110 lbs) I have caught some big bluefin. The problem lies in the water depth where these giants are taken. you hook a giant bluefin in the abyss from an anchored boat that fish is gone...game over. they catch them in 100-200 feet of water so the bluefins take off on long runs and you can follow them....they never dive down hundreds of feet where the real brutal battles occur. I may never catch a big yellowfin as my desire to pull on big tuna has waned with the years. I am middle aged at 38 and do not have the desire to get into hours long battles. When me and my friends were young we used to get huge old senators or penn int. 80's or 130's and hook giant bluefins on full drag with just a belt. the game was to see how long we could "hang" on. I was a good sized guy at 6'2...225 and used to bench press and squat a ton.I held on for five minutes once...
I had a friend who fished prince edward island years ago back in the 1980's. I may be mistaken but i believe he said they fished them in 80 feet of water. not much place to go other then straight out. The big yellowfin taken on the boats in san diego are big beautiful fish my breath was taken away when I saw the red rooster come in with a few yellowfins over 200 lbs...I could not process what I was looking at. However, if you love tuna, you owe it to yourself to see one that is nine feet long. They are marvels of nature and quite possibly the king of all fish.
As I said, pound for pound. We don't catch YFT that are nine feet long, and I fear we wouldn't either
I have caught both species in the 100-120 pound range, and hands down, YFT are much tougher.
One of my buddies who has caught numerous big YFT went to Hatteras and caught 15 big BFT in one day, between 250-500. He said the 170 pound YFTs from the Revillas were way tougher than those, no way he'd catch 15 of that sized fish in one day.
Ask any long range crew member or captain, search the archives on here, this has been debated many times, and most who have caught both give a huge nod to YFT.
Not taking anything away from a fantastic fish, a tuna over 9 feet long is a wonderful thing.
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04/17/2011 11:29 AM
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Oakey520
Joined: 04/02/2011
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re: Yellowfin vs Bluefin
I was on the Redondo Special yesterday and caught a few sculpin...can we agree that they are the worst fighting fish in the world?
Fighting a big yellowfin from an anchored boat, no chair etc has got to be brutal. Like you said I am sure this has been hashed out a bunch of times and I am new here and do not want to beat a dead horse or come off the wrong way.
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04/17/2011 11:45 AM
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wahoodad
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re: Yellowfin vs Bluefin
Oakey520 wrote:
I was on the Redondo Special yesterday and caught a few sculpin...can we agree that they are the worst fighting fish in the world?
Fighting a big yellowfin from an anchored boat, no chair etc has got to be brutal. Like you said I am sure this has been hashed out a bunch of times and I am new here and do not want to beat a dead horse or come off the wrong way.
I'm going to go out on a limb here, and say I have one species that is a huge disappointment to me fighting wise: Sailfish.
What a wimp a$$ed fish, like winding in a wet towel 
At least sculpin, you can't expect much.
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04/17/2011 12:06 PM
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Oakey520
Joined: 04/02/2011
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re: Yellowfin vs Bluefin
wahoodad wrote:
Oakey520 wrote:
I was on the Redondo Special yesterday and caught a few sculpin...can we agree that they are the worst fighting fish in the world?
Fighting a big yellowfin from an anchored boat, no chair etc has got to be brutal. Like you said I am sure this has been hashed out a bunch of times and I am new here and do not want to beat a dead horse or come off the wrong way.
I'm going to go out on a limb here, and say I have one species that is a huge disappointment to me fighting wise: Sailfish.
What a wimp a$$ed fish, like winding in a wet towel
At least sculpin, you can't expect much.
always wanted to tangle with a 500 plus pound mako....I have probably watched this video 30 times....amazing....action starts at :59
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoHXPvc5y3Y
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04/17/2011 12:10 PM
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conchydong
Joined: 11/09/2009
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re: Yellowfin vs Bluefin
I'm going to go out on a limb here, and say I have one species that is a huge disappointment to me fighting wise: Sailfish.
What a wimp a$$ed fish, like winding in a wet towel
At least sculpin, you can't expect much.
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I agree with you David, sailfish suck, and our Atlantic sails here in FL are even smaller than the Pacific variety. Most fish them on 20lb spinning gear to make it somewhat even moderately interesting. I personally hate them. but they are money makers for the charterboats in the wintertime.
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04/17/2011 01:44 PM
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fishybuzz
Joined: 04/22/2007
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re: Yellowfin vs Bluefin
conchydong wrote:
I'm going to go out on a limb here, and say I have one species that is a huge disappointment to me fighting wise: Sailfish.
What a wimp a$$ed fish, like winding in a wet towel
At least sculpin, you can't expect much.
I agree with you David, sailfish suck, and our Atlantic sails here in FL are even smaller than the Pacific variety. Most fish them on 20lb spinning gear to make it somewhat even moderately interesting. I personally hate them. but they are money makers for the charterboats in the wintertime.[/quote]
Sailfish all show no go.....they are species I go out of my way to not catch...just pathetic ....
Kil song has caught many of both has stated he feels West Coast yellowfin are tougher pound for pound....
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