11 year old Joanna kicking Tuna butt!!!

[TommyTuna]

Fished on Mark's Catch 22 today with his daughter and Jerry Fish Magnate of MOO board infame. It was a really pretty day - if u were a kite. I knew the 10-15 North was gonna be more like 15-20 and it was - but wind against the tide early made for big rollers. We chunked the new NSSSS 4 miles to the North of the NSSSS to no avail - marked tons of bait and fish though, maybe should have stuck it out but headed to old reliable after 1 1/2 hours. not much happening there either so we headed to Corky's Hump - it finally paid off with 8 fish on in 2 hours, 4 in the box and Joanna's first Tuna! She is gonna make quite the fisherwoman - watch out, JR. Anglers, there is a new sheriff in town

Biggest was a nice 55#er that i broke its heart on a 30 - i mean literally - i think it had a heart attack after we gaffed it! It completely froze up.

Many thanks to Mark for yet another multi Tuna day on the Catch 22! That Mako does real well in the slop and chunks very nicely. Now I remember why i almost bought it 5 years ago.....

in action


she is determined!



results!



proud papa and daughter



purty



a lot of poor Tuna have died here

[Admin]

Very nice report man . Its nice to see more and more girls getting involed in offshore fishing .

Rock on !!!!

John

[jawz12]

good job joanna!! i've seen grown men drop the rod on the gunnel and can't even lift it while fighting bft like that you should be very proud of yourself!! hope this is the first of many!!!!

[micko454]

nice pics there

[Anngler]

I hope Joanna will get into fishing as much as I am!
Hopefully we'll here from her in the junior forum!

[paul708]

nice catch always good to see the kids out catching

[striper101]

Joanna,
That's totally awesome!
It's great to see the looks on there faces when they first hook up!

[John Rogers]

Congrats to Joanna. There some nice fish. Can't wait till my daughter is old enough to go offshore. Nice work joanna. Great pics

[Fish Tale Charters]

Way to go Joanna. Show em who's boss. YOU GO GIRL!!!!

[TommyTuna]

between Becky's son Bryan this year and Joanna, this jaded old Tuna chaser got a real boost seeing them truly enjoy themselves with all their enthusiasm along with NO WHINING. I definitely want to take more kids offshore to let them see the joys of the deep Blue. I gave a set of Mako jaws to my neighbor Kyle that watches my pooch and now he wants to catch his own! New jr. anglers everywhere!