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Originally Posted by bellyuptim
Sure that one isn't a bigeye? Never know till you check the liver.
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I thought about that. My gut feeling is that's a Yellowfin. It's too long...
Actually.... I'd say that there are so many being caught in that size range that they are probably all Yellowfin. You can occasionally get small bigeye like that but they are very rare and almost always in schools of much larger 100lbs+ fish.
I got my last bigeye trolling the ridge at SBI and it was about that size, about 60lbs but the fish that came out of the water and missed the jig right before it was closer to 200 pounds. That day between SBI and the back side of Catalina over twenty bigeye were hooked but I only heard of three landed, as the rest trashed the gear.
Mine was small but the other two were both over 130lbs.
If there were enough Bigeye around to produce all these fifty and sixty pound fish we'd be seeing lot of people loosing their gear to huge fish and others with 100 pound plus fish on the decks.
All that said it would not surprise me to see some bigeye caught soon as they are due, but I have yet to hear a classic "destroyed my gear" Bigeye story this year.
Jim