Is the guy who caught the giant tuna here

[SmokyMtnGrady]

This father son trip in a GW 225 landed a 10 foot 1,000 pound blue fin!
Is he a member here? if so, congrats on that fish!!!

Father, son reel in huge bluefin tuna off the OBX coast

KITTY HAWK, N.C. (WAVY) — A Toano man and his buddies made the catch of a lifetime last Wednesday. They caught a monster bluefin off the coast of the Outer Banks, and they have amazing video …

www.wavy.com

 

[Punchline Cap]

WOW! That is a fish of a lifetime.
YouTube:

 

[Mark DV]

Cool video. I'm surprised no sharks showed up while they tried to boat that fish.

 

[CJ7Rob]

Idk, but its all over the FB Grady Group

 

[SkunkBoat]

Great to see a "little guy" have success. I'm surprised they were able to boat that beast on a 22
That is awesome but thats a lot to clean and eat and freeze and give away!
We can't eat enough or give away enough of the 50-90 pound bluefins/yellowfins we catch before we catch another one.
I ate my last freezer pack in January.
Tuna is great but you CAN get tired of it.

We've had the discussion as to whether we release an over 73" if we ever get lucky enough to hook one agian
We had one on but got cut of in another boat.

 

[Legend]

Great to see a "little guy" have success. I'm surprised they were able to boat that beast on a 22
That is awesome but thats a lot to clean and eat and freeze and give away!
We can't eat enough or give away enough of the 50-90 pound bluefins/yellowfins we catch before we catch another one.
I ate my last freezer pack in January.
Tuna is great but you CAN get tired of it.

We've had the discussion as to whether we release an over 73" if we ever get lucky enough to hook one agian
We had one on but got cut of in another boat.

Could not agree more - I have caught several in the 200 pound range and I don't know enough people to get rid of it.

 

[Ky Grady]

Just reached out to him and invited him to our forum. Hopefully he'll come onboard.

 

[HTHM]

Are you allowed to sell it at the dock like they do on wicked tuna?

 

[SkunkBoat]

no

 

[HTHM]

Bit of a waste of a fish then, in my opinion.

 

[SkunkBoat]

in my opinion they shouldn't let commercial guys sell giants either. Every dead fish over 73" is the loss of a million schoolies 2-3 years from now.
And I catch schoolies and eat them. And you might say "they're making a living" and I say "I don't give a ship..buffalo hunters made a living...whalers made a living... Charter guys made a living taking charters for schoolies before the commercial seiners and longliner guys ruined it..."

if they want to make a better living, take people out to catch schoolies. They will be thick if they leave the giants alone.

and those wicked tuna guys make more selling t-shirts than selling tuna

 

[Pighunter]

Great to see a "little guy" have success. I'm surprised they were able to boat that beast on a 22
That is awesome but thats a lot to clean and eat and freeze and give away!
We can't eat enough or give away enough of the 50-90 pound bluefins/yellowfins we catch before we catch another one.
I ate my last freezer pack in January.
Tuna is great but you CAN get tired of it.

We've had the discussion as to whether we release an over 73" if we ever get lucky enough to hook one agian
We had one on but got cut of in another boat.

Can it! Jalapeno tuna caned in pint jars will last years and people love getting it as gifts. I canned a 170 lb. tuna 3 years ago, nothing left all gone.