Louisiana record big eye tuna video

[Morning Wood Sportfishing]

November 24, 2009 was by far one of my most memorable trips while fishing with Paradise Outfitters. This was the day our customers broke the record for big eye tuna, with a beast of 197.4 pounds. The other two big eyes we caught that day were 194 and 173. Here is the little bit of video I was able to get that day. Note to self-do not zoom in on jumping blue marlin! Hope yall enjoy!

Here is also a link to the original story I posted for Pelagic in the Waterman's Journal, if any of you guys want to relive the experience.

http://www.thewatermansjournal.com/b...nter-tuna-bite

[CaptAnthony]

That marlin footage was UNREAL!! Cameras are hard to control when that stuff is going on. SICK tunas

[squirtis]

Nice!!

funny, we were on the 29 WA next to you guys.,..we got there at the end and ended up with only one of the Big Eyes that went 158!

I sent that still shot in the video to Hunter after the trip..

small world!

[Capt Josh]

I wonder how many big eye we've caught over the years and just thought that they were yellowfin. Probably more than a few! Nice job boys, hope you smash your own record again!!!

[Thynnus]

Awesome work man, bigeye tuna is the holy grail for me, hopefully I run across the wolfpack in the canyons this summer, check out the video footage we got from Panama April 9-16, we had feeds like this all day long, I have hours of video like this, sorry to hijack the thread


http://vimeo.com/22821390

[buckeyetuna]

We are 5 weeks away from the Tuna Roundup off the Oregon Inlet in the NC Outer Banks. Usually some nice Bigeye caught in this Tournament. Here is a 110 Lb Specimen caught in the 2007 Tournament and a 233.5 Lb caught in last year's Tournament. The big one took 5 hours and 40 minutes to land on a 50.

Hoping for big things again!!