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Blackfin Tuna - Destin - 8/16/2014

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Had about 3 hours to fish this morning so we load up and launch in Destin around 5:45AM.

Jigged up some bait on the gold hook rig (cigs, sardines, monster speedos) and start pedaling out to deeper water... had one live cig snatched on the way out,

We spot the birds and fish busting on top, at first I'm thinking bobo's but then i realize they are knocking several baitfish out of the water... they must be bigger, maybe BFT??!

So as we're pedaling around the action slowling, one of rods bends back slightly.. Isiah hands me the rod and I can tell there's a fish on, but it doesn't feel very big at all, small king maybe? AS I start pumping it in, I can tell it's something more substantial, fish is not running at all?

All of a sudden, the fish takes off like a freight train and keeps going and going and going... For a second or two I thought we were gonna get spooled! Finally got the Yak turned in the proper direction and after a bout 10 more minutes of pumpning! BFT is in the YAK!

I captured almost all of it on GoPro and will be posting it sometime soon!

 

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