First Giant BFT in the Annie P

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Nat, I hear ya on the spinning and jigging. Maybe when the next year class comes through at under a hundred pounds. Who wants to fight a big fish for an hour then lose it? I just got started last year trolling with Penn 50 VSWs and 80 lb mono. Now I'm looking at 80s or maybe 130s to try for giants this year. The small fish, under 73", "shorts" are a lot of fun. I can only imagine how something three or four times the size fights.

The really funny thing about tuna fishing is how it changes your perspective. We were out on Stellwagen Bank yesterday and saw large schools of 20 30 and 40 lb bass busting through clouds of sand eels, some jumping clear out of the water, but we were looking for tuna. And this is from someone who has been a hardcore bass fisherman for 45 years, since I was five.

Steve