YellowFin Tuna
 

Anyone else chase YF? We run out of St Augustine Florida for them all Summer, just wondering if anyone else out here fishes for them?

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Hey Shawn (I'm Assuming) great pictures the swordfish to me is the most impressive, Do you fish for those at night? I am in Virginia and use to go out but it was to expensive the gulf stream is 70 miles off shore and it seemed we spent 2/3 of the day riding so I gave it up. How far is St. Augustine from good fish?? What are charter rates down in Fl. Anyway awsome fish.

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Rebel yes we do fish for Swords at night. For us to run for Swords out of St Augustine it's about a 65 mile run to 1500 feet (the area we like to fish), but we run a 31' Contender with twin 300 hp Yamahas so the run does not take to long ;). I do not know of any Sword charters out of St Augustine or Jacksonville, due to the distance they can not make any money. Now down South around Miami you should be able to get one for cheap. I really like catching Swords too, there is nothing like fighting a big Sword with standup tackle, it's one of thoses things you will never forget.

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I fish for yellowfins in NJ, DE and MD. We usually chunk with butterfish but occasionally troll. Out of NJ, most offshore charters run 70-100 miles. That's where the canyons are and that's where the marlin are. Until late August, that's where most of the yellowfin are, too. The charters must be more expensive up here because all the boats specialize in making this run.

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Goin out tomorrow for some yellowfin!!! Were are leaving out of Grand Isle Louisiana, Hopefully we will come back with a boat load!!

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Let us know how you do, I've tuna fished out of Venise LA before & we brought back 10 tuna with the largest one at 197!![:-]

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glad to see someone from st augustine i grew up fishing there back in the 70's i caught a 14' tiger shark at 4 mile we used to fish sharks a lot there and at 9 mile one time at 9 mile we caught 3 sails in one day using a flat line we have caught blackfin as close as the beach fishing for kings down near marineland i have been gone for 10yrs now and all i fish for is mountian trout

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Awww man!!! The weather held us up and we only fished for red snapper and amberjack!!! Oh well, maybe next time!!

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We make it out to the East side of the gulfstream on Sundaylimited out on YF & caught this nice Marlin to top off a great day.

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great pix's do you ever do any bottom bumping closer in to shore and are you going to fish the king tourments this month

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We still bottom fish, but I'm all done Kingfishing. Done that for years & I'm done slow trolling for Kings, I do not even like to eat them, what's the point? [:'(]

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Got pretty tired of king fishin too, once ya eat tuna, king is fer the cats!!!

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We dont have any yellowfin up here yet. However, they are starting to get some schoolie bluefins at the 28 mile wreck out of Barnegat NJ.

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I live down in Texas and do a little fishing for tuna. We have to go a looooong way 70 miles to get out into good yellowfin action. Ive only caught blackfin. We just pull up behind an anchored shrimper about 40 miles out and chunk some sardines over. You never know what your gonna get, wahoo, chicken dolphin, snapper, and amber jack. However we did a fishing charter out of ocean city maryland and we caught the hell out of the bluefin. If any of yall are familiar with an area called the jackspot which is around 40 miles off of ocean city. We caught 42 bluefin tuna, most of which were aound 20 pounds. Could only keep 2. The biggest was around 45 pounds. It was a fun trip.

By the way that contender is badassssss.

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We go out of Ocean City each year. 14 Aug. is the date this year. We usually hook up w/ YF and BF tuna. Sometimes we scrap the tuna fishing for a day of dolphin chunking. Will post pics as soon as we get back.

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Gotta love offshore fishing. Lots of white marlin being caught and released in OCMD. Jackspot, hot dog, sausgages.. All good spots out of OCMD.

Bluefin regs now state you can keep 3 if you are on a chartered vessel.

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ccm352 - when did the bluefin regs change? it used to be 1 right? YF is still 1 per person?

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I saw it on the nmfs website

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Yellowfin are three per person daily.