This video goes to show why so few people stick with Bluewater hunting. When the water is clean its one thing to deal with lots of sharks but we find Tuna and Wahoo often in dirty water that still has the same number of sharks.
These sharks are all relatively “small” by Bluewater standards with the majority of them being in the 6-7ft range with every 10th one over 8 feet. Some places, and I am not exagerating, there is this same number of sharks except the small ones are 8 ft long and the big ones look like they just swallowed a couch. Diving not for the feint of heart. Yet another reason to be confident in your equipment and trust your buddies to have your back.
Knowing we were going to be diving shallow the rig I was using here for Yellowfin tunas was a 50 ft Riffe bungey and single 2 atmosphere float. Most of the fish we were seeing were less than 200lbs so I was confident that the single float would stop them with even a short bungey. We shot 4 good ones and the average fight time on them was less than 5 minutes from the time of the shot until the killshot and in hand.
Another really cool day out in the blue. It doesn’t happen like this often so when it does you definitely have to feel blessed. When we looked at the footage we were all perplexed because it didn’t look like there were that many sharks. The camera can only see such a small area what you don’t realize is that everywhere, in every direction, above, below, behind, beside and as far as you could see in the visibility were hundreds and hundreds of sharks. Insane day. Thanks L. for taking the video and thanks C. for everything.
This is Aaron yelling at me, it looks like we are happy but in acutality he is yelling at me for stealing his fish:) What are friends for...
Oh and sorry Aaron that was definitely your fish, he had him dead nuts and the trigger stuck and he couldn’t get a shot off with the huge sickle fins just few feet from the end of his gun. Frustrating cuz but we’ll get them again!
If you pause the video at the right moment you can actually see that my fin is out of the water still when I pull the trigger on the fish. Yep, I’m a deep diver.
Cameron Kirkconnell
7 Responses to “Video: Big Yellowfin Tuna and Sharks”
Cam,
What size/make hybrid is that?
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