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Description: Yellowfin Tuna have football shaped bodies, dark blue or black above with yellow on
the sides and fins tinged in yellow with the finlets yellow
Catching them!
There are a few primary ways that these fish are caught. One is by chumming the fish too the boat and then hoping to get one to eat a piece of chum drifted back with a hook in it. Another is to troll baits both natural and artifical behind a boat. Dropping diamond jigs down deep and jigging them up and down with long sweeps of the rod can often produce when the fish are deep and only surface briefly before retreating to the cooler deeper waters. Probably the most exciting way to catch tuna is casting surface popper baits and probably the most effecient method is to slow troll live hardtails behind the boatWe supply the bait and tackle!
Where found: Tuna will sometime set up residence on the structure for weeks at a time.
Tuna are most commonly caught in water at least 500' deep
Size: Yellow Fin Tunas can go up to 450lbs. The North Carolina record is for a bluefin Tuna is at 744lbs (1995).
Remarks: Tuna feed almost exclusively on smaller fish and squid. When trolling for tuna it has been my experience that the larger baits don't
catch as many fish as the smaller 6 or 8 inch baits.
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