| RR Catches Largest Yellowfin Ever Caught on the Hurricane Bank
Got this in an email from Bobby Gowin of Glenn's Tackle. He wrapped the rod that this pig was caught on.
Bill Roecker for FishingVideos.com & the San Diego Sportfishing Council
Net Update
January 19, 2008
Pelagic Super Cow From Hurricane
A 307-pound yellowfin tuna was caught by Pelagic rep Sonny Jones of Santa Ana, who was chartermaster aboard the Red Rooster III on a 15-day trip with 20 anglers, co-sponsored by Catchy Tackle. The boat arrived at H&M Landing January 19. Andy Cates skippered the trip, and Wayne Martin and Fred Knilans were aboard to represent Catchy Tackle.
Few 300-pounders have been caught at the Hurricane Bank in recent years, although the bank has produced many fish over 200 pounds.
“I was fishing a big skipjack for bait,” said Sonny. (Skipper Cates said the skippie weighed about six pounds.) “When he bit I let him eat it for at least 30 seconds. My best fish before was a 220-pounder. I was thinking this one was at least a 200-pounder or a shark, and I tried to stop the take with two fingers while he was swallowing the skipjack, with no luck. After the hookset I couldn’t get any line on at all for at least two minutes, and Andy said I had a really big fish.
“Thirty minutes later we could see that it was a big fish. He fought for an hour. He’s my personal best.”
Skipper Andy Cates said the boat had six cows. “It was a pick bite,” he added. “The wahoo gave us the action we needed.”
Sonny Jones’ super cow came on a 10/0 VMC hook, he said, tied to 130-pound Momoi leader and 130-pound Line One Spectra aboard a Penn 70 VSW reel and a Calstar Boomer rod wrapped by Glenn’s Tackle.
Mike Butler of Sonoma won second place for a 239.5-pound tuna. “He was on for an hour and a half,” said Butler, “and he got me in tangles. I had to fight him twice.”
Butler baited a chunk on a 7/0 ringed Super Mutu hook and 130-pound Momoi and 130-pound Line One Spectra. He used an Avet 50 reel and a Calstar 760 XH rod.
Art Green, Newport CPA, took two cows and third place for one that weighed 234 pounds. “He fought hard,” said Art, who used a 5/0 ringed Super Mutu on 130-pound Blackwater fluorocarbon leader and 130-pound Line One Spectra. He fished a Penn 70 VSW reel and a Seeker 6463 XXH rod.
Art also got a 215-pounder on his birthday, and a wahoo on one of the unusual jigs he makes of diverse parts; this time a Shrek figure with plenty of tinsel.
Henry Maze of Dublin, CA bagged a 227.5-pounder with a double sardine rig on the kite. He used the boat’s rig and said his best previous tuna was a 150-pounder.
“I also got six wahoo,” said Henry, “and to me that was the next best part.”
Lewis “Mark” Dennis of Woodland also borrowed a boat rig to subdue a 215-pounder with a squid under a balloon.
The Rooster was scheduled to leave again the same afternoon with skipper John Grabowski at the helm, on an Accurate reels trip with Dave Choate as chartermaster.
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Wow, congratulations to Sonny on the 300 club, I heard about it already, but this is the first post I have seen. Congratulations to Art on the tuna and the Shrek lure wahoo he does use some strange lures. I just got off a trip Art was on. Both those guys seem like they are always on a trip.
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