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hammer4reel

09-04-2011 04:22 PM

Re: Incredible Canyon YFT/Bigeye Jigging and Popping!

great pics and trip !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

fin_s_guy

09-04-2011 05:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Sea Bear

Thanks everyone!

I always say that with fishing, sometimes you can't do anything RIGHT and sometimes you can't do anything WRONG. I'm just glad this trip fell into the latter category. :)

Bill...these pics are just N U T Z! Now I see why you get that amped look when you described topwater plugging and jiggin Tuna. Nice report and great pics!

JFLORES

09-04-2011 06:18 PM

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Bill, Justin,

Outstanding trip boy's!!

HOOLIGAN

09-04-2011 09:05 PM

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Outstanding trip!!!! Congrats on such a fine catch!! Poppers at night... wow never heard that work at night and on Big Eyes to boot!!! Great news!!

Dan McGivney

09-05-2011 08:42 AM

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WTG Nice catch. That's the best report I have heard since the storm. :)

JohnLoGi

09-05-2011 09:18 AM

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That might be the best report all year - great going leaving on a hunch. Thanks for getting some tags in as well. Do you know how many tags you deployed? Please tell me you tagged a bigeye? That would be a first in New Jersey....if you did PM me.

Arbutis

09-05-2011 07:28 PM

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Besides the obvious, what's the difference between bigeye and bluefin tuna? I've seen lots of bft photos and these looked very similar.

sportfishingusa

09-06-2011 10:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Arbutis

Besides the obvious, what's the difference between bigeye and bluefin tuna? I've seen lots of bft photos and these looked very similar.

the liver.

Captain Rich

09-06-2011 08:17 PM

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As Sportfish said, the striated liver is one way to tell, but that only helps after you have reached for the butcher knife. The pectoral fin does not reach the 2nd dorsal fin on Bluefin, it does on Big Eyes. On Bluefin the 2nd dorsal and anal fins are tipped with pale blue, on Big Eyes they are tipped in yellow. Not to be a wet blanket but I have a problem with the first photo of Sea Bear's 2nd post, can be the camera angel, but those look like Bluefin.

Sea Bear

09-06-2011 08:49 PM

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Capt. Rich is right on all accounts except for his last sentence. We didn't catch any bluefin on this trip. The pectoral fins on all of the BIGEYE we caught went passed the start of the dorsal fins because they were all, in fact, BIGEYE, including the fish in whatever photo he is talking about.

I guess next time I'll also have to takes photos of the striated livers we removed from all of those BIGEYE when we filleted them up.

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