skinner
11-29-2011, 08:05 AM
This was on facebook yesterday. I saw it there and thought it was a hoax. Here is Ristori's report. Way to go!
Maybe they got us all fooled, or not?
Ristori reported it last night. I think the piece of info that the tuna ran into the wash helps the legitimacy of this story. Other wise I agree with the doubters, there is no way he would have been able to handle a tuna that big without getting spooled.
Congrats.
This is Ristori's report:
"The oddest catch of the year may have occured this morning at Bay Head when a 70-to-80-pound bluefin tuna was landed in the Bay Head surf. Nick Kolidy of Brick talked to an angler who was fishing clams there during mid-morning when a fisherman casting metal hooked up.
After fighting the fish for awhile, he had it in the wash, where the clam fisherman helped him land it. Apparently the tuna ran the wrong way and beached itself. Normally a tuna would run offshore and strip any normal surfcasting reel in seconds. Actually that was an illegal catch. You need a federal permit in order to land bluefin tuna, but those permits are only issued to boats. Bluefins are very rarely caught from shore, but I doubt if NMFS would prosecute under these circumstances.
Bluefins have been spotted in various areas not too far offshore. Capt. Arthur Stokes of Fintastic from Point Pleasant saw them jumping Sunday in the Mud Hole.
The clammer reported catching a short striper, but that was all Nick heard about this morning from Bay Head to Normandy Beach."
Maybe they got us all fooled, or not?
Ristori reported it last night. I think the piece of info that the tuna ran into the wash helps the legitimacy of this story. Other wise I agree with the doubters, there is no way he would have been able to handle a tuna that big without getting spooled.
Congrats.
This is Ristori's report:
"The oddest catch of the year may have occured this morning at Bay Head when a 70-to-80-pound bluefin tuna was landed in the Bay Head surf. Nick Kolidy of Brick talked to an angler who was fishing clams there during mid-morning when a fisherman casting metal hooked up.
After fighting the fish for awhile, he had it in the wash, where the clam fisherman helped him land it. Apparently the tuna ran the wrong way and beached itself. Normally a tuna would run offshore and strip any normal surfcasting reel in seconds. Actually that was an illegal catch. You need a federal permit in order to land bluefin tuna, but those permits are only issued to boats. Bluefins are very rarely caught from shore, but I doubt if NMFS would prosecute under these circumstances.
Bluefins have been spotted in various areas not too far offshore. Capt. Arthur Stokes of Fintastic from Point Pleasant saw them jumping Sunday in the Mud Hole.
The clammer reported catching a short striper, but that was all Nick heard about this morning from Bay Head to Normandy Beach."