One of our “Official Tournament Guides“, Captain Hank DeRuiter sent me a message this morning… and he seemed pretty excited. He’d been out with some sports yesterday trying to hook up with tuna and had boated a fish. This isn’t a frequent occurrence, so Hank’s excitement is understandable.

They were fishing just South of Monhegan trolling squid rigs and had been seeing tuna chasing bait on the surface all morning. Working a line of weeds, a school of tuna started busting up the surface off to port and when they made a pass, one took the rig. 

The battle was on…  Al Andrews and Larry Rines were the lucky sports who fought the fish for over an hour. Finally, they brought the fish to the boat and wrestled it on board. It is what blue fin tuna fishermen refer to as a “football”, which is a smaller fish as tuna go. Actually, it weighed around 140 lbs which is large for a ”football”, and certainly worthy of mention. When they boated the fish, Hank was heard to say… ”I’d like to see Payton Manning try to get a grip on that one” !

Congratulations to Hank and his sports. Nice catch!