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Not sure if I'm seeing this right or it a typo. Saw a count on Seaforth site that one of the 1.5 day boat landed 2 big eye. Any one know more info on this?
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Haven't heard but I have heard its not that uncommon for a couple of big eye to be caught here and there... Also heard its hard to tell them apart from yellowfin. Maybe mistaken identity?
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I never saw a big eye tuna in person, so I have no idea what they look like. Last week on the T Bird I was listening to the voice recording on 976-tuna the capt said his not sure if the big tuna they caught were yellowfin or big eye
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look very similar but the eye is 2 times larger. and unlike the YF no whip to the fins
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Side by side bigeye and YFT's look quite different. When there is not a YFT on the boat to compare it to, it can be tricky.
1. Meat is darker.
2. Bigeye fight much harder than YFT's of the same size.
3. Bigeye tend to be a bigger fish.
4. Bigeye come up and feed out of deep water, and leave as fast as they came. (If you have fish boiling all around the boat for 3 minutes or more, they are yellowfin)
5. Bigeye livers have "striations", or red lines in and on them. Yellowfin livers are all one color with no red lines. (that's how most people check)
6. Bigeye are a rounder fish, with obviously bigger eyes.
We used to target bigeye tuna with marlin jigs trolled a little slower than typical trolling speed. They seemed to like to bite the jigs very close to the boat, and very early morning/late afternoon when there was not a lot of light in the sky. I'd run canyons, like the one between the 277 and 209 to get bites. High spots never produced for me.
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Great info capt Jeff. Thanks for clearing up the question
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Awesome i learned something NEW about the liver never would have thought of that...
Yes like Oatums said thank you
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