Sunday Tuna Session

Just your typical Sunday for a couple of buddies from San Diego, battling a cow Yellowfin Tuna for over 3 hours. Craig and Mike Joyce, and their buddies from Poway/Escondido came to Cabo and repped East County San Diego as best they could today. After a few small Dorado, Captain Alex found a school of Tuna. Unfortunately, the Tuna were finicky and not interested in any of the lures, plugs or feathers we were pulling through the school. Mate Manuel thought the fish were finicky because of the heavy line and leader on the lures. He live baited a Caballito onto one of the pitch bait rods and threw a Caballito out into the school and immediately got hooked up. Manuel knew the fish had some size to it as he handed the rod off and because the live bait rod and reel is set up with 40lb test and 100lb leader, he knew the guys might be in for a long fight. The long fight turned out to be 3.5 hours as the guys passed the rod back and forth a few times but finally landed the big Yellowfin. The guys were stoked on the 150+lb fish and had plenty of sashimi and filets to bring back to San Diego.