[JFLORES]

After getting two jigging trips canceled in Cape May, i went tuna popping
in Cape Cod. Along with my brother and good friend we fished with
Capt. Chip Baker on the Ocean Experince.

The day started with light winds and flat sea's, upon arriving at are spot
we started to see small pods of huge tunas crashing on the surface, soon
after i see a few fish crashing and i casted at them 4 pulls ZZZZZZZZZZZZ
fish on. After a very hard fight i landed a 68'' beast my personal best.

Unfornately while fighting my tuna there was huge pods of 200-300lbs.
crashing all around us and my brother and friend could not cast to them.

The rest of the day saw us chasing fish and seeing huge pods of tunas
sunning themselves on the surface and would not hit anything we casted
at them.

I want to thank Capt Chip for a great day and working so hard to put
us on fish.

Hooked Up

Saltiga Dorado Slider

68'' Beast

 

[gman]

Congrats John, no one deserves it like you I'm very happy for you as your aren't just a great angler but a great friend. Congrats my friend!!!!!

 

[Eric the Red]

Congrats on the personal best! Canceled trips are no fun, but it looks like you knocked it out of the park!

 

[MrBill]

Nice tuna. It's always great to be on the water beat a personal best. We all dream about it. Time on the water makes dreams come true.
What do you estimate the weight of that 68" bluefin?

One more thing. In your picture I thought I saw a snap swivel attached to your lure. After blowing it up I see where you went lure/split ring/swivel.
Do you use this setup on most of your swimbaits?

Congrats on a fine catch.

 

[gman]

not answering for John but most of our crew up here uses that as our standard set up now Mr Bill.

 

[paul708]

nice catch john..congrats

 

[HWK]

Congrats, nice bft !!!

 

[fishingeek]

Congratulations on a FINE catch John!!!

 

[fathom]

awesome to break a personal best! It's the only thing that matters.

 

[pametfisher]

Nice tuna. It's always great to be on the water beat a personal best. We all dream about it. Time on the water makes dreams come true.
What do you estimate the weight of that 68" bluefin?

One more thing. In your picture I thought I saw a snap swivel attached to your lure. After blowing it up I see where you went lure/split ring/swivel.
Do you use this setup on most of your swimbaits?

Congrats on a fine catch.

If I were to guess, that's a 230# Spro barrell swivel and a #8 Owner split ring.

 

[luna sea II]

congratulations on your catch!

 

[deadsea]

Nice fish! Congrats!!!

 

[Guest]

1. deadsea - like the avatar
2. i use the same split to swivel setup. i like it more than split to solid.

 

[silver335]

congrats john, thats incredible

 

[gman]

Deadsea nice fu***** avatar

 

[rtran]

congrats john you deserve it bro

rich

 

[kidflex]

great job!

 

[JFLORES]

Congrats John, no one deserves it like you I'm very happy for you as your aren't just a great angler but a great friend. Congrats my friend!!!!!

Glenn,

Thank you so much my man, i had a long hard winter that means alot
to me.

 

[JFLORES]

Nice tuna. It's always great to be on the water beat a personal best. We all dream about it. Time on the water makes dreams come true.
What do you estimate the weight of that 68" bluefin?

One more thing. In your picture I thought I saw a snap swivel attached to your lure. After blowing it up I see where you went lure/split ring/swivel.
Do you use this setup on most of your swimbaits?

Congrats on a fine catch.

MrBill,

Thank you, IMO that fish weigh's around 180-190lb.

Yes i use swivel split ring, it works great to reduce line twist.

 

[gman]

John trying to get you