We’re Now Certified Yellow Fin Tuna Anglers

[LBT]

Three crazy sport fishermen together with Edy spent the whole of Friday afternoon travelling by land and by air, just so we can get our crazy asses to one remote corner of the earth where pirate attack are as common as, we, Singaporean seeing someone go to the betting station to buy a Toto or 4D ticket, to hunt for tunas.

Since we run the risk of getting our crazy asses caught by either the pirates or unpredictable weather conditions the next few days, we might as well enjoy our Friday night there in our hotel located near the port, by eating and drinking ourselves silly, at their seafood restaurant.

Because our targeted fishing ground is too far of a distance away from the port, we had no choice but to wake up bright and early the next day, so that we can reach the small traditional fishing village on a island in the middle of the sea to unload our equipments and personal belongings, before heading out to the deep blue sea for some much awaited fishing action.

But day one of fishing was a little bit of a disappointment, for we only manage to get yellow fin tunas between the two to five pounds range. And there was nothing much we could do except to pray we get the bigger one tomorrow, when back at the fishing village, after dinner.

Day two was battling time; as the bigger tunas put our endurance to the test. Fighting tunas (yellow fin and albacore tuna) in the twenty to forty-four pounds range is by no means easy. The forty-four pounds albacore tuna such a strong and powerful fighter that it fought for no less than ten minutes before giving up. And our adventure for day two ends with us gathering beside the jetty for the opportunity to parade our catches, before the village chief invites us to his house for a meal specially prepared by his family members with the fishes we caught.

Spending the last and finally day; day three, of our tuna hunting expedition trip enjoying the sea breeze, watching the rain drop on the crystal clear sea in the balcony outside our rooms, and catching starfish, we did. Before we pack our bags and say goodbye to this beautiful friendly fishing village to travel via sea, land and air, back to home sweet home.

The fishing village is so beautiful and the people are so friendly, that, Edy decide to plan another trip back there to hopefully wack some tunas in the one hundred pounds range, somewhere this coming April, after his Spratly Islands fishing trip.

1 x 20kg Albacore tuna
2 x 15kg YellowFin Tuna
1 x 9kg YellowFin Tuna
20 x 2kg+- YellowFin Tuna and Albacores
3 x 6kg Dorado

[edylie]

these are the pics

[stickbom!]

Power la guys

[sailfish1]

Edy
now you are ready for our Amberjacks
but promise me one thing
let some big ones for us
very nice trip you had there
JJ

[Daiwa_Siao]

I saw Daiwa Ishidai reel

How was the fishes caught?Jigging, popping or bottom?

[edylie]

Originally Posted by Daiwa_Siao

I saw Daiwa Ishidai reel

How was the fishes caught?Jigging, popping or bottom?

I use the ishidai for bottom and jigging.

Fishing caught using jigging and bottom.

Cheers,
Edy

[physlo]

Edy,

Powerterma!

Regards
physlo

[thunnus]

Edy,.......very nice catch !

CuteGirl, I couldn't get a picture about ..."by land, by air and by sea..." Could you please be more specific about the location, if you don't mind... And btw, how much does the boat cost ?

rgds,
Lod.

[octopus]

Cool man, you all must be in TUNA fever now
Edy, this will your warm up before Spratly? :P

[edylie]

Originally Posted by octopus

Cool man, you all must be in TUNA fever now
Edy, this will your warm up before Spratly? :P

Hi Tan,

Yes but before the Spratly trip, i will be heading to Israel and hopefully can land some nice Amberjack.

I will be going back there for YellowFin Tuna and Albacore again on April

Cheers,
Edy

[DaFrogman]

Edy,

That sounded and looks like a lot of fun... Nice Catch Report, hope that on the next trip, the 70+kg YellowFin Tunas will turn up to give you guys a bit more than 10 minutes of sweating ...

Did you try sending the baby-baby tunas back out as live bait?..... You can catch all manner of crazy beasties doing that... I think we got a 30kg dorado last time we did something similar here.

Regards,

Saimee

[jason]

Yo edy
Nice catches......
U guys muz have really enjoy yourself on this trip......
Care to share more on the details of jigs, bait and method of fishing???
I sure many of us are dying to know more.....hahahahaha!!!!






Cheers
Jason

[edylie]

Originally Posted by DaFrogman

Edy,

That sounded and looks like a lot of fun... Nice Catch Report, hope that on the next trip, the 70+kg YellowFin Tunas will turn up to give you guys a bit more than 10 minutes of sweating ...

Did you try sending the baby-baby tunas back out as live bait?..... You can catch all manner of crazy beasties doing that... I think we got a 30kg dorado last time we did something similar here.

Regards,

Saimee

Hi Saimee,

I wanted to do that but i was not prepared ... (no proper rig and hook size)

In April i am going to bring wire rig with 2 hooks 12/0 and try our luck

Cheers,
Edy

[Makaira]

Originally Posted by edylie

In April i am going to bring wire rig with 2 hooks 12/0 and try our luck

Dude ..... you do not need double hook rigs for livebaits. Just bridle rig them with the appropriately sized hooks. Check the net for how to prepare a bridle rig. I would also just use mono & forget about wire unless you are looking at hooking up the sharkies as well. Wire will probably scare off bills & YellowFin Tuna as they can be leader shy

[edylie]

Originally Posted by jason

Yo edy
Nice catches......
U guys muz have really enjoy yourself on this trip......
Care to share more on the details of jigs, bait and method of fishing???
I sure many of us are dying to know more.....hahahahaha!!!!






Cheers
Jason

Jason,

Jigging did not yielded much fish but 2 dorados and 1 groupa. We are using cut fish as bait and method of fishing is dangling the bait on 85 meters or so ....

Next time i am going to try to dangle the bait in 400ft

Cheers,
Edy

[CliveTan]

Good catch edylie and co!

so 20pcs of table size tunas... is the catch rate considered good? Better than sabah?

YellowFin Tuna sashimi nice or not?

[mark]

Originally Posted by edylie

Jason,

Jigging did not yielded much fish but 2 dorados and 1 groupa. We are using cut fish as bait and method of fishing is dangling the bait on 85 meters or so ....

Next time i am going to try to dangle the bait in 400ft

Cheers,
Edy

wondering have ot got anything to do with the size of the jigs being used? did they surfaces? even tho i've heard quite a couple of guys mentioning hitting them with pretty big jigs but majority of the guys still used jigs that are relatively smaller then the one on your last 2nd pic.

[jason]

Yo mark
Maybe juz they din managed to hit the Tunas on jigs .......
Not easy to hit them in the depth of 300m.....



Cheers
jason

[supersky]

Yo Edy.. interesting... new play ground..

Hmm...u are fishing in bumboat rite?
How far out from the shore?

April try to hook the whole 3-5kg YellowFin Tuna down and see what come out next.


Cheers.

[thunnus]

Originally Posted by supersky

April try to hook the whole 3-5kg YellowFin Tuna down and see what come out next.

Better equiped with 120 lbs reel, I reckon.....

rgds,
Lod.

[jerk]

edy, u going back Celebes Sea this april again???? if yes den i would like to join in. thomas will be interested too.

[edylie]

Originally Posted by Chris

edy, u going back Celebes Sea this april again???? if yes den i would like to join in. thomas will be interested too.

Yes ... in April ... haha anyway you are in already.

-e

[jerk]

now den u reply, abit late right?

[TPfisherman]

Power, brada. Great catch. Your Albacore Tuna is it white meat or pink/reddish meat? First time I have seen this type of Tuna in Asia, other than Japan and Korea.

[edylie]

Originally Posted by TPfisherman

Power, brada. Great catch. Your Albacore Tuna is it white meat or pink/reddish meat? First time I have seen this type of Tuna in Asia, other than Japan and Ko