My brother went down to Punta Mita for 10 days and caught a 279lb. yellowtail tuna. It took him 2 and 1/2 hours to catch.... Just thought I'd share... Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Nice catch! Looks like a lot of fun. Any idea what the fish will go for? I bet it will be a pretty penny!
How does it just stand straight up like that? I'd think it would be falling over or he'd be struggling a lot more. That's a freaking big Mama!
Holy crap! That's insane! I've been fishing in Punta Mita, best was a 50-pounder! (On vacation last spring) Incredible fishing there, but the water is VERY rough/nauseating (atleast when I was there)
I have always wanted to go down to puerto vallarta and go hunting for the cows, they get 300lb+ on a regular basis. on another note, I think someone just caught a 399 pounder for a new world record Nick C
WOW. That's excellent! I always wanted to go Tuna fishing, but I can never get any of my friends to go... that's got to be so much fun.
AWESOME!!! That is just incredible, an experience of a lifetime! I would really love to catch something like that some day! Terry
Okay, forgive my ignorance.........so you go deep sea fishing, it costs let's say 1200 for the day.......it's a great day, you catch a fish that big and you can "sell it back" to the captain for maybe 5 G's thus you're ahead 3800 bucks................that's wild. is that the way it works?
Even better than that... figure 1200 to charter the boat (low end of the scale up here in the Northeast; no idea how much it costs down there)... but remember, you're chartering that boat with 5 other people normally, so that's like 200 per person. I believe you sell it at the dock when you get back; not to the captain.
MikeZ_NJ, I have never sold a fish so I don't have any first hand expierence, but I have heard that the captain takes a cut since it was caught on his boat.
usually you will only take home what you can bring on the plane and give the rest to the crew, since it is their lively hood that fish can feed them and their family for a long time. It can get expensive to have the fish prepared and packaged as well as the shipping costs which can definatly add up. Its all about the fight, when you are on a fish that big for 2.5hrs it is an amazing battle. In places like Hawaii the boat owns the fish and you only get to keep what they let you(only place i know of like that) Any one who fishes in socal has probably seen the bluefin tuna pens off the coronado islands, they will ship those fish directly to japan, each pen holds anywhere from 5-10 million in fish and they protected by gunboats.
Yeah, having never done it before, I don't know the exact process. I was trying to comment more on the fact that the cost of the charter is usually significantly less than you'd initially think because you're usually splitting it.
I don't think he even sold it back, but he had to leave it... He still has an industrial fridge in his garage full of fish.
