Big Tuna on rod and reel

[Mikey]

So it was said Point Loma caught the largest tuna on rod and reel ever.
BUT READ THIS!
http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/blog/3296...er+caught/

Angler's 738-pound Pacific bluefin tuna may be biggest ever caught
By: Pete Thomas, GrindTV.com
<img alt="" src="http://static.grindtv.com/images/1/00/38/89/83/388983.jpg" align="right" height="345" width="292" />A
738-pound Pacific bluefin tuna described by angler Nathan Adams as a
"fish of a lifetime" may also be the largest Pacific bluefin ever landed
on rod and reel.

The catch was made aboard an 18-foot boat during a recent competition off Houhora in New Zealand. If it's approved by the International Game Fish Assn., it will set an all-tackle world record, replacing a 716-pound 8-ounce Pacific bluefin landed off Westport, New Zealand, in 2007.

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The
IGFA typically takes weeks before deciding on record submissions, but
since Adams was in a competition and presumably complied with strict
tournament rules, there's a strong chance he'll become the record
holder.

It was one of two incredible catches for Adams, a member of the Muriwai Sportfishing Club.

He
also landed a 788-pound black marlin, to set a club record, and his
group battled 12 billfish in 11 days as part of the New Zealand Sport
Fishing Council Nationals competition. A 16-year-old girl accounted for
five of those billfish.

Most of the fish were released, but the giant tuna and marlin were kept and will be sent to the taxidermist.

Adams, 42, told Auckland Now
that he'd like to place the tuna on the wall of his home, replacing a
30-pound snapper, but his wife isn't sure she wants something so large
as a wall decoration.

"She says it will be like mounting a sofa," Adams said.

-- Photo shows Nathan Adams (holding the fishing rod) posing alongside 738-pound Pacific bluefin tuna

[Mikey]

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OMG! Largest Tuna Ever Caught by Rod and Reel over at Point Loma Sportfishing


Monday, December 13, 2010

Largest tuna ever caught: Michael Livingston sets world record

SAN DIEGO, USA--Glendale Unified administrator Michael Livingston
caught a 405-pound yellowfin tuna aboard Capt. Mike Lackey's 80-foot <img src="http://www.worldrecordacademy.com/hobbies/img/102007b_largest_tuna_caught_Michael_Livingston.jpg" align="left" height="194" width="129" />sportfishing vessel, Vagabond, off Mexico - setting the new world record for the Largest tuna ever caugh with a rod and reel.

Photo: Mike Livingston and the World's largest tuna caught with a rod and reel. Photo courtesy of Michael Livingston

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More than 100 people crowded around the fishing hook scale at Point
Loma Sport Fishing in San Diego to see the yellowfin tuna — which
measured 85 inches from nose to tail and 61 inches in girth — hoisted
into the air.



Livingston said he spent 2 hours, 40 minutes playing the giant fish
before reeling it in. His previous personal record was 100 pounds.



The beast was finally subdued by a Penn International 30SW reel
blueprinted by Cal Sheets, a custom rod made by Livingston himself, and a
100-foot topshot of 100-pound test monofilament over more than 700
yards of 100-pound test superbraid line, with a live sardine pinned on a
9/0 Owner Ringed Super Mutu hook.



"It was my moment, my time," Livingston said. "I'm certainly not the
best angler, but I had enough skill to reel this one in. It was just my
day."



Livingston told the San Diego Union-Tribune it was "fish of a lifetime."



Livingston's previous big fish was a 100-pound yellowfin.




The previous Guinness world record for the Largest tuna ever caugh with a rod and reel was a 388-pound, 12-ounce yellowfin caught in 1977.




Guinness World Records listed Ken Niles (USA) as
the world record holder for "Most species of fish caught on fly rod in
one year"; he caught 85 different species of fish using a fly rod on in
one year.