Marligator wrote: BIG tuna will also hit very small lures it seems, summertime it would only likely be a skippy, alby or occasional mahi.

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Too true, we had a full spread of lures out and this black came in and smashed the albie lure. I still tell my mate I was thinking about cutting the line as we would have no chance of landing it. We landed it, and learnt a lot about using drag, line belly, and fish was 10 to 1 ratio.

Hoping this works.
PEI Blue fin tuna,
The beginning of the comeback and an interview with Peter P.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=phzIOzw0Q14

I believe the fishery is quite healthy for fish, charter, commercial and tourism.

Tony Orton is a regular up there.
It would be great dor his input here.

Good to get an earned result.
And yum yum.

Hey Vance just a little fulla at 44kg but tasted awesome
There was only about 10 boats out so pretty good fishing think there were around 8 - 10 hooked / landed or lost

Hey Guys,

we hooked ours while resetting lures doing 4 knotts - fluro carbon traces - I wonder if there is anything in the yanks who troll alot slower for these guys then us.

Southern bluefin tuna consist of a single stock primarily distributed between 30ºS and 45ºS, which is only known to spawn in the Indian Ocean south of Java. Adults are broadly distributed in the South Atlantic, Indian and western South Pacific Oceans, especially in temperate latitudes while juveniles occur along the continental shelf of Western and South Australia and in high seas areas of the Indian Ocean. Southern bluefin tuna caught in the New Zealand EEZ appear to represent the easternmost extent of a stock whose centre is in the Indian Ocean.