Required Tuna reading...

Mr. Fisherman · 12-30-2003, 08:57 PM

This Article, The Soul of a Tuna Fisherman should be required reading...

No sleep for you...

The Soul of a Tuna Fisherman article

Mr. Fisherman · 12-30-2003, 09:28 PM

Only 183 days till July 1st

Reelentless · 12-30-2003, 09:30 PM

What an incredible article! It reminded me of some of Pilar's stories where I was glued to the monitor eagerly reading the next sentence.

Mr. Fisherman · 12-30-2003, 09:51 PM

Yep.... I had many fond memories on the Pilar when I read this....
I had no choice, I was forced to share it....

WaterDog · 12-31-2003, 07:53 AM

I know that new guy feeling. :grin: I only got to go out once last year. I hope to go out more this year. [img]graemlins/1zhelp.gif[/img]

Pilar · 12-31-2003, 07:54 AM

Happy New Year Ray!

Was the boat the 'Ghetto Booty'?

That is the best narrative I have read in a long time. Like many of you I go into a 'zone' when TUNA! fishing is being instigated. Time begins to run at different speeds and all things lead to the moments in the cockpit spent battling the thrashing TUNA! For a few minutes, I was there hauling handlines and yelling REEL, REEL, REEL! I have seen the 1000 yard stare on a few faces and it is always the same. In an instant all other fish are forgotten, all other fishing becomes filler. Between the boing! of a handline snapping tight and the screaming of three 4/0 Penns in unison ... the new guy is transformed and doomed. He doesn't know it yet and may not figure it out until the day is done.

Yep, good article and all right except for one detail.

There is hope .. we have tunaholics anonymous and time marches on.

Beer Waggin · 12-31-2003, 08:01 AM

I was that "new guy" once. Only problem was there were three "new guys" on the boat that day and no one with experience. What a rush...

The power of friends is endless and his last paragraph says it all!

Bait O' Eggs · 12-31-2003, 08:23 AM

I loved the read, there were a couple lines that stuck with me

Quote:

I look at our guest. He is looking around in awe. Blood everywhere.

Quote:

We pull into the harbor. It was a short trip and there is still light.

<font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helv">You couldnt write a description any more accurate of how it is tuna fishing. Early start, Long boat ride, stacking fish up, long evening cleaning boat and fish, posting a report and resting to do it again.

Mark Mc · 12-31-2003, 08:57 AM

That is Dan's boat / website.... see his "welcome" thread below...

http://www.ifish.net/ubb/ultimatebb....;f=21;t=003522

puffins crew · 12-31-2003, 09:31 AM

Great read!! [img]graemlins/applause.gif[/img]

Surely if you don't know, :whazzup: you just don't know.

I have seen that blood, and felt the power of these fish. I, too now have cloths just for this task, and this task only.

We are blessed to have such memories, and glorious anticipation of hookups to come.

Have a safe and Happy New Year.

Peace, Tom

Salmon Stryker · 12-31-2003, 01:10 PM

What do I gotta do to get a seat on a Tuna Boat? I wanna be the new guy. Thanks Mr. Fisherman for posting that story. Awesome!

KeyWest · 12-31-2003, 07:43 PM

Reminds me of my first trip this year - took a seasoned veteren and a new guy. We were getting geared up, which included getting the washdown hose ready, and the new guy says "what's that for?" The reply, almost in unison from the two of us who have been there was - "it will come in handy when the decks are awash in tuna blood". He laughs and says "yea right". We just stare at him and say "yea - right".

He caught the bug big time on that trip!

Mark Mc · 12-31-2003, 08:15 PM

Ya know, Dean, when a newbie is that disbelieving, it is tempting to let him know that his job is to rip the gills out of the first tuna (of course, without first spiking the brain) so he gets the total body bath.

"Yea, it's real easy. You hold the fish by the tail in one hand, and rip out the gills with the other hand. But don't let go of it!"

hrspowr · 01-01-2004, 04:50 PM

I gotta go....I gotta go.....I gotta go......I gotta go.... I GOTTA GO!!!

Would do almost anything to get an open seat for a trip this year!!!

Mr. Fisherman · 01-04-2004, 12:32 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by hrspowr:
I gotta go....I gotta go.....I gotta go......I gotta go.... I GOTTA GO!!!

Would do almost anything to get an open seat for a trip this year!!!

<font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helv">Muhahahah haha haha a And so the cycle continues....

Stay tuned mate... Bloody seats are everywhere when the water warms and the sea calls..

Only 179 days to go....

skein · 01-04-2004, 06:50 AM

These stories and all this talk isn't doing anyone any good! It's snowing for godsake! The water is 45 degrees. The passes over to the coast are iced over. We must realize that tuna is a long way off - and we must find other things to do until the water warms back up.

I think I'll go sit in my boat. Maybe tweak the quench tank system I have rigged up.

Skein

KeyWest · 01-04-2004, 12:43 PM

It's not much better here at the coast! My back deck overlooks the CR here - you know it's cold when the pintails here are rafted up thick on the water!

TillamookChinook · 01-04-2004, 04:04 PM

I know what it is like to be just a regular fisher, a guy who thinks about fishing everyday (salmon, steelhead, trout). And I know there are lots of people out there who just don't get it and never will.

What's scary is that I suspect my fishing disease is like a mild sneeze compared to the tuna flu afflicting the tuna fishers on this board.

I'm a perfectly happy guy with the fishing I do now. As Jack Nicholson (sort of) said, "You don't want the truth about tuna fishing. You can't handle the truth about tuna fishing."

But someday I'll try.

TC

Ghetto Booty · 01-05-2004, 06:43 AM

Thanks for all the kind thoughts. You made my day.

Dan

Pilar · 01-05-2004, 08:26 AM

Tillamook Chinook ... it's not too late. Back away from the keyboard and forget all about Al-Ba-Core.

You have been warned.

Ray, the cycle continues, good one dude.

Mr. Fisherman · 02-09-2004, 04:58 AM

For the love of the game and those who have not had the chance (to read the article or actually experience this)....

Back to the top like a Hungry Blue Fin

Yarrrrrr.......

id. painter · 02-09-2004, 08:16 AM

I will have the 1000 mile stare. Someday ,,,, one day,,,,, very soon. July !!!! id. painter.

Reel Creel · 02-09-2004, 12:28 PM

What a great story [img]graemlins/applause.gif[/img] And its so true, COME ON SUMMER. I like the part about the big blue has permitted them out on her once agein. I tell my wife that its not when I want to go, but when I can go!

Mr. Fisherman · 02-09-2004, 09:43 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by id. painter:
I will have the 1000 mile stare. Someday ,,,, one day,,,,, very soon. July !!!! id. painter.

<font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helv">143 more days

Reel Creel, yea, I like everything about this article. Can't get enough....

SPAZZ · 02-13-2004, 06:42 AM

That is an awesome story. I to would love to tune fishing as I have never been. While reading the story I was imagining (sp) that being me out there. as the rookie. That must be quite an experience. Hope to get the chance. :grin: Brian

Mr. Fisherman · 02-14-2004, 10:42 PM

Only 137 days... And counting

Reel Creel · 02-15-2004, 10:10 PM

136 days to go COME ON SUMMER!!!

Big TULE · 02-18-2004, 08:47 PM

Hey Ray i bought a new pair of Bibs just for sea... No more messed up jeans... And look out TUNA here comes an even bigger TUNA...

Mr. Fisherman · 03-09-2004, 11:06 PM

113 days and counting... reading... counting....

backlash442 · 03-10-2004, 05:30 AM

What no bait fish? Can't believe in the first 10 minutes they didnt' throw bait. Bite like that would have had them foaming in the corner. Otherwise I feel the guys pain. Tuna addiction is impossible to get over. My wife DOES NOT get up when I leave although we ususally leave the day before.

Mr. Fisherman · 04-26-2004, 06:10 AM

Just shaking the dust off an old favorite.
Gotta do something while I am waiting on trailer parts

BUGLEMAN · 04-26-2004, 09:09 AM

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Mr. Fisherman · 04-26-2004, 12:11 PM

You are welcome Kev,

This is the kind of love that needs to be shared like it was still the 60s.