Top 10+ can you fish for bluefin tuna

The catch of an 826-pound, 8-ounce bluefin tuna off Destin, Florida, has been been approved as a state record. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission announced the approval on Tuesday, more than a year after the catch was made by Rick Whitley aboard the vessel, You Never Know. Bluefin tuna caught in May of … Read more

How to Fish for Giant Bluefin Tuna In the Winter Advice from top anglers on what to expect this year when giant tuna show up off the mid-Atlantic coast Winter off the Outer Banks is raw. The sky is gray and the sea is angry. Wind streaks spray across the deck of Donnie White’s Sea … Read more

Southern Bluefin Tuna – Thunnus maccoyi – How to Catch by Allan Burgess How to Catch Southern Bluefin Tuna The body of the southern bluefin tuna is almost round in cross-section. The first dorsal fin folds down into a groove on the back affording the fish an almost perfect bullet-like shape free of protrusions that … Read more

Huge Fishing Bust Exposes Weaknesses in Bluefin Tuna Management Illicit operation in Mediterranean signals bigger problems in oversight of vulnerable species More than 80,000 kilograms (88 tons) of suspected illegal Atlantic bluefin tuna was seized in June in an operation revealed last week by the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol). The seizure … Read more

In the small fishing village of North Lake, Canada, people remember when the tuna went away. Now they’re back in numbers, and so is North Lake’s reputation as the “tuna capital of the world”. But scientists claim stocks are down by 90% globally, and these normally wary tuna are so hungry that they will now … Read more

Big Bluefin Tuna Behavior Understanding bluefin tuna behavior and patterns will ultimately help catch more fish. The key to catching giant bluefin tuna is finding them; in order to find them, you need to understand their behavior. While it is true that one of the defining characteristics of these fish is their unpredictability, there are … Read more

“People are generally not accountable for their actions and full of crap,” says Captain Ralph Wilkins, one of the stars of National Geographic Channel’s Wicked Tuna. “What I wanted to do as a young boy was escape.” His escape was the ocean. Growing up in Brooklyn, he’d ride his bike for miles until he reached … Read more

Tuna are the predators of the fish world. Large and athletic, with a mouth full of sharp teeth, they are impressive swimmers with large appetites. There are 15 genera and 51 species in the Scombridae, the broader tuna family, which includes the bonitos, Spanish mackerels, and mackerels. However, the eight members of the genus Thunnus … Read more

In this week’s edition of Scott’s Species, Western Angler editor Scott Coghlan takes an in-depth look at southern bluefin tuna. Fish: Southern bluefin tuna, Thunnus maccoyiiEating: 4 starsIdentification: Yellow bar on tail fin. Blackish-blue backs, and a silver belly with rows of light dots and lines. Growing to almost 300kg and 2.5m in length (living … Read more

Tuna fishing usually begins sometime in June with albacore tuna and bluefin tuna usually first appearing in our waters. During warmer water years yellowfin tuna can also be caught at this time. Fishing for each species of tuna is roughly the same so regardless of which tuna species being targeted the same fishing techniques apply. … Read more