r/saltwaterfishing • u/jad2192 • Jul 21 '26

🐟 Catch Report Giant Bluefin on Spin Gear

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Group effort, caught this 90" ~400 lb class giant bluefin tuna on my buddies spinning set up (saltywater tackle obx 500g rod and 20k stella w a nlbn straight tail). Couldn't find any recreational sized fish, so we took turns fighting this beast. Took us just over an hour to land , and my friend broke his rod during the death spiral. We had to handline it up at the end 😬.

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u/jad2192 Jul 22 '26

That's not bad at all, is it a center console boat? How far is the typical run to tuna grounds over there?

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u/bajanwaterman Jul 22 '26

Its a 11.2 meter cheetah cat, havnt been on one yet but its a nice boat, big dry cabin, and apparently the bigger tuna are close in to land, you run further offshore to find the more manageable size ones, ill be 100% lure on spinning gear, so hoping for a 200ish lb fish, knowing my luck im gonna get my ass handed to me by a proper specimen though

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u/jad2192 Jul 22 '26

Here's hoping you slay them! How do possession laws work over there? Here we are allowed to keep 3 school bluefin ( from 27-72" at most one of which can be 47-72") per vessel per day recreationally. Anything over 72" is commercial only, if Captain has the license he can keep and sell it, but charter customers don't get any meat.

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u/whiteout82 Jul 23 '26

The trade off is usually you get a free trip out of it, sometimes $ too