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MEXICOWANDERER
Feb 19, 2016Explorer
Thank your for righting my error Big KaTuna!
About 8 miles off of Las Peñas, there is "The Tuna Hole". Yellowfin. 210' depth.
In 2002 I just "Had To" bend Jesus' arm and have him take me and a hotel guest out to the hole.
We used live minnows. Let's call the man, "Harold". One second he was sitting in the bow, the next his big game rod was bent into a perfect "U". I reeled in.
Up and down, in and out the fish went. It actually pulled "la lancha" several hundred yards. He set his feet against the floorboards and fought that fish like a madman.
I lost track of the time. He switched gears on that reel like it was a big rig. He knew his stuff. The fish would have probably pulled me overboard or yanked the rod and reel out of my hands.
Jesús hanging bascula (scale) only went to 150kg and it pegged before the tail of the fish cleared the bottom of the boat.
The fish went to the smoker in Lazaro Cardenas, "Harold" handed Jesus $500 as a tip, and I learned that I should have never asked Jesus to take me to his Tuna hole. Not alone anyway. There are giant spires "peñas" all over the area so commercial trawlers keep their distance.
I never learned exactly how much that fish weighed. Jesus suggested it would have gone 180 kg. Both of them struggled to get the fish fish into the boat. I held onto the head with a gaff and they flopped the rest over the gunwale foot by foot. The stupid fish slapped me alongside my knee with its tail and had me on crutches for a week.
I wish I could get to Florida and root through those places. I am desperate for small "Euroterminals" and cannot seem to find any online. All Electronics seems to not have them.
My 50 watt LED chips arrived and the mercado here will be one of the 1st in the country to have LED lighting. The bill for 40 watt fluorescent tubes was killing them.
About 8 miles off of Las Peñas, there is "The Tuna Hole". Yellowfin. 210' depth.
In 2002 I just "Had To" bend Jesus' arm and have him take me and a hotel guest out to the hole.
We used live minnows. Let's call the man, "Harold". One second he was sitting in the bow, the next his big game rod was bent into a perfect "U". I reeled in.
Up and down, in and out the fish went. It actually pulled "la lancha" several hundred yards. He set his feet against the floorboards and fought that fish like a madman.
I lost track of the time. He switched gears on that reel like it was a big rig. He knew his stuff. The fish would have probably pulled me overboard or yanked the rod and reel out of my hands.
Jesús hanging bascula (scale) only went to 150kg and it pegged before the tail of the fish cleared the bottom of the boat.
The fish went to the smoker in Lazaro Cardenas, "Harold" handed Jesus $500 as a tip, and I learned that I should have never asked Jesus to take me to his Tuna hole. Not alone anyway. There are giant spires "peñas" all over the area so commercial trawlers keep their distance.
I never learned exactly how much that fish weighed. Jesus suggested it would have gone 180 kg. Both of them struggled to get the fish fish into the boat. I held onto the head with a gaff and they flopped the rest over the gunwale foot by foot. The stupid fish slapped me alongside my knee with its tail and had me on crutches for a week.
I wish I could get to Florida and root through those places. I am desperate for small "Euroterminals" and cannot seem to find any online. All Electronics seems to not have them.
My 50 watt LED chips arrived and the mercado here will be one of the 1st in the country to have LED lighting. The bill for 40 watt fluorescent tubes was killing them.
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