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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2010
Posts: 6,856
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Find someone that lives near that has a quality sealer/chamber, ask them to allow you to use the sealer/chamber and split the fillets with them. Seal it right and it will last months
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Administrator
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: 1-2 miles off the point
Posts: 6,948
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wet towel is great. Frozen water bottles in a small cooler to throw in the towel even better!
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Paddle for Mahi
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Doing the happy paddle!
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 2,384
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I took a large drybag rolled up and six or 8 frozen water bottles in a small soft sided cooler last year. Bled the fish, stuffed it into the dry bag and positioned the water bottles all around it. The bottles still had about 20% ice in them when I got back to the beach (10+ hours later) and the fish stayed cool. Of course I had a paddle yak with a big hatch that I was able to keep the fish inside and out of the sun. The drybag I took would probably have maxed out at under 40#s, luckily my fish was only 33. Seems to me, that unless you have some kind of insulation around the fish, that you are better off keeping the outside cool. It is more susceptible to heat gain than the inside. I have to agree with the other guys though, if I were not prepared to keep the fish fresh, I would have to release it. Wasting a fish for bragging rights is poor sportsmanship at best.
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#5 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2015
Posts: 326
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That is for sure. I really want a Vacmaster. I think I kill enough shit to justify it. And if I don't kill enough shit now, I'll definitely have to start hunting again to make sure I don't unjustifiably buy something.
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#6 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Chula Vista
Posts: 1,589
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Maquinapescado; that's the best tuna filleting video I've ever seen. I learned to cut tuna in a much different way, removing 4 loins off the fish and I always thought it was a PITA.
The techniqu in the vid is easy. I practiced on a few bonito then cut a dozen tuna and it worked great from the first fish. I showed 2 buddies that style. 1 has little experience cutting fish and he picked it right up. The other worked on and ran local sports boats for 10 years and has cut 1000s of tuna. He tried it found it superior. I like that many of the cuts are away from me. This is safer, especially on a moving boat. Mike |
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#7 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: San Diego, CA
Posts: 810
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If I didn't think I could handle the fish, I don't think I'd try to catch it in the first place.
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#8 |
donkey roper
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Pacific Beach
Posts: 968
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Never mind how you will store the fish... You will never get the thing in your yak without a kage. How many people here have gaffed an 80#+ tuna? 30# nearly capsized me. These fish don't come up to the surface exhausted like yt. They EXPLODE when stuck with the gaff. And they always have another big run in them the first, and sometimes the second, time you get them to gaff.
A 100#+ BF cant be landed with a single gaff, especially not a kayak sized gaff. It usually takes two gaffs and 2 full grown men to keep the fish under control when gaffed. And the first gaff shot typically happens about 2-3' below the surface. Either a flying gaff, or a well placed shot with the kage is the only chance at landing that kayak cow. I also thought a slip tip pole spear could work. Never mind that the pole spear and kage are illegal when angling in socal waters if I'm not mistaken. So before you decide how to fillet your giant bluefin OTW and how many pounds of ice you're bringing... I'd just focus on getting a bite first and go from there haha. If you get one of these badboys to color... I'd be radioing for help asap |
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#9 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: Escondido, CA
Posts: 130
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Ice Solution
If you guys want a good solution to ice, this one works extremely well. These things stay very cold all day long, especially if they are in a cooler. I throw three in my kill bag and they do the trick.
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/...?ie=UTF8&psc=1 |
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#10 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2015
Location: The I. E.
Posts: 353
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Just take a sushi chef along with you. Your lunch will be fresher than if you got it from the Tsukiji fish market.
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 314
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beats draggin a beast 5 mi back in the water not sure my yak could handle the xtra weight though thinking much over 75# and I might just have to release hrmmm P |
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