05/30/2026
🚨🚨🚨211 # YELLOWFIN TUNA ALERT 🚨🚨🚨
This story is unbelievable but I promise it’s true. Our great buddy Chase has been on a sword fishing kick and wanted to do this month long sword fishing tournament where you can only declare 3 fishing days. We are more than happy to learn this fishery with him and help where we can, so we said yes, paid the dues, and signed up.
We had to fish today in big seas because this weekend looks even worse, and slowly headed 70 miles offshore. Storms were on the horizon and we figured we’d run away from them when the time came, but we hooked into an absolute monster fish and 1.5 hours later it wasn’t in the boat yet. It was too late and the storm moved right on top of us with the wind blowing and the rain pouring, but we battled on for another hour and hit him with the harpoon and gaffes, and then he was finally in the boat.
I’m sure it has happened, but I’ve never heard of someone catching a YFT 1300’ down while swordfishing, especially with a tuna this size - I’m sure this is rare. We won’t win this tournament but we did catch two swordfish, a pomfret, and a whopper tuna - no complaints here.
A few years ago we had come across a guy named Chase on a local Facebook group looking to get serious about going offshore. We were even newer to the game but looking for the same. Made a plan to look for golden tilefish together and found them the first try, and it’s been a gravy train of a friendship ever since with some incredible catches I never thought possible. I have no idea why he trusts us and we’re his first call for a fishing trip but I’m appreciative of it 💯
