Just gotta brag....
 

StdDev went fishin a few weeks ago..
Had a great time and kilt me a real (reel :roll: ) nice fish!

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I tell you.. this was a "proper azz whoopin" fish! :P

Poor fish he looks worried

Yummy. Tuna.

Whats your wife going to say when you stuff it and hang it on the wall?

Now that's what I call Fishing :()1: :()1: :()1:

Yes yummy... I would eat that thing on the deck and half alive too...;)
Yellow fins gives out a good fight... good one :up:

OMG, what a huge fish.
Cool pic, man with beard and fish :|\

Is that a tuna?

Yup.. Yellowfin Tuna (sometimes called Ahi tuna).. 280 lbs! :rock:

A picture's worth a thousand brags, especially where fish are involved. Congratulations! :up:

:D Wow, what a catch. Congrats.

That is an excellent catch StdDev...

Brings up a dilemma. Do you mount it on your wall or eat it? :hmm:

280 pounds of fish!

Time to have an Ahi Tuna party: appetizers, main course, salad, and dessert all made with Ahi. A keg of Ahi juice?

Good catch StdDev.

BTW, where in Socal was it? I went whale watching a week ago in San Diego and that boat looks awful similar, but I suppose they all do.

Wall.

If you can find one strong enough to hold it, that is.

On a second look I noticed: that's a lot of blood on the deck. His or yours?

Sushi! :o

Between this thread and the herring posts elsewhere, I'm hungry again! :cry:

The trip started in San Diego at Point Loma Sportfishing.. the boat is the Independence. The fish was caught at Hurricane bank which is approx. 350 miles s/w of Cabo San Lucas.
Its Fish blood... my mess was in my underware.. that picture of the gaffing was actually the second attempt.. on the first attempt the fish pulled two gaffs into the water out of the deckhands hands and went back down to deep color.
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notice the holes in the fish's head from the first gaff attempt..
many fish are lost at gaff! I was paniced until they got the fish on deck.
Also explains the profusion of blood on the deck

Close. I rode an Islandia Sportfishing Boat from Misson Bay.

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