OFF TOPIC world record?

[NZRMac]

Little old New Zealand in the headlines again.

Possibly a world record for a Tuna fish 268kg (590lb)

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3386819a10,00.html

Ken.[:D][:D]

[Virginian]

That's a big fish. I got to see a 1003 pound Blue Marlin in NC. If I had gotten anything that big to the boat I would have cut it loose for safety reasons. :-) A friend hooked a 489 (?) pound Blue about 100 yards from my boat and I got some cool pictures. We were trolling in a staggered line and he was ahead of me on the right. Made the front page of the paper.

[Pruitt]

That's a whole lotta cans of Starkist!

[Anonymous]

It makes my 73 pound yellow fin look like a shrimp.

[Anonymous]

There are a ton of happy puddy cats in New Zeland today!
Will

[davekelly]

That would make a cool flat car load!!

[dave9999]

I've heard of "Chicken of the Sea", but "Cow of the Sea"... This is getting out of hand!![:D].
Dave

[Anonymous]

Hope he didn't kill any dolphins when he caught it![:o)]

[Anonymous]

Such a teeny fish! Great mostly for bait here in Atlantic Canada![:D]

The tuna fishery used to be real big in our smallest province Prince Edward Island. it's a much shorter season these days. I couldn't find any sizes from this year's annual catch, just completed recently, but here is a listing of some previous records for sport fishing of tuna that I found:

"Women: 1978 - Dr. Colette Perras of Montreal with 130 lbs test
Weight 1,170 lbs. North Lake P.E.I.
Men: 1979 - Ken Fraser of North Lake with 130 lbs test
Weight 1,496 lbs. Auld's Cove N.S. "

Somewhat larger than the NZ fish!

Bob Boudreau

[Anonymous]

wow
;-)

[loathar]

"Women: 1978 - Dr. Colette Perras of Montreal with 130 lbs test
Weight 1,170 lbs. North Lake P.E.I.
Men: 1979 - Ken Fraser of North Lake with 130 lbs test
Weight 1,496 lbs. Auld's Cove N.S. "
WOW! I hate to come face to face with one of those on a diving trip!

[electrolove]

That was a big fish, almost as big as the shark I have in my bathtub, hehe...

[Anonymous]

How does it take for a tuna to get that big?

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by verse2damax

How does it take for a tuna to get that big?

I would think prime directive #1: Don't get caught.

[selector]

Years. 10-15, at least.

[Darth Santa Fe]

I didn't know that tuna could get that big!![:O][:O] I wonder how many pounds of that is actually meat...

[selector]

Did you know that halibut are also quite large? Think of a giant flounder.

Did anyone ever pause their train over a trestle and drop a line for a few minutes?

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by selector

Did you know that halibut are also quite large? Think of a giant flounder.

Did anyone ever pause their train over a trestle and drop a line for a few minutes?

I know they did in a Thomas the Train video, or at least he always wanted to go fishing, I think the story goes that he was in need of water, and they stopped on the trestle and filled. He later wasn't feeling to well, so they ended up fishing out of him and eating the fish. I was a little disturbed by it all [xx(]

[NZRMac]

QUOTE: Originally posted by FundyNorthern

Such a teeny fish! Great mostly for bait here in Atlantic Canada![:D]

The tuna fishery used to be real big in our smallest province Prince Edward Island. it's a much shorter season these days. I couldn't find any sizes from this year's annual catch, just completed recently, but here is a listing of some previous records for sport fishing of tuna that I found:

"Women: 1978 - Dr. Colette Perras of Montreal with 130 lbs test
Weight 1,170 lbs. North Lake P.E.I.
Men: 1979 - Ken Fraser of North Lake with 130 lbs test
Weight 1,496 lbs. Auld's Cove N.S. "

Somewhat larger than the NZ fish!

Bob Boudreau

that's incredible Bob, I guess it ain't a world record then?

Ken.

[selector]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dthurman

QUOTE: Originally posted by selector

Did you know that halibut are also quite large? Think of a giant flounder.

Did anyone ever pause their train over a trestle and drop a line for a few minutes?

I know they did in a Thomas the Train video, or at least he always wanted to go fishing, I think the story goes that he was in need of water, and they stopped on the trestle and filled. He later wasn't feeling to well, so they ended up fishing out of him and eating the fish. I was a little disturbed by it all [xx(]

Well, how about that...fresh, piping hot chowder right out of the cylinder cocks!! [(-D]

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by NZRMac

QUOTE: Originally posted by FundyNorthern

Such a teeny fish! Great mostly for bait here in Atlantic Canada![:D]

The tuna fishery used to be real big in our smallest province Prince Edward Island. it's a much shorter season these days. I couldn't find any sizes from this year's annual catch, just completed recently, but here is a listing of some previous records for sport fishing of tuna that I found:

"Women: 1978 - Dr. Colette Perras of Montreal with 130 lbs test
Weight 1,170 lbs. North Lake P.E.I.
Men: 1979 - Ken Fraser of North Lake with 130 lbs test
Weight 1,496 lbs. Auld's Cove N.S. "

Somewhat larger than the NZ fish!

Bob Boudreau

that's incredible Bob, I guess it ain't a world record then?

Ken.

I think they said it was a World Record Blue fin tuna. The Atlantic tuna I think are Yellow fin. on the "Show yourself" thread I posted a picture of me with my 73 pound Yellow fin. It is small compared to these but it was large enough for me to get a certificate from the fish & game commission of North Carolina. I can't imagain how hard it was to reel those things in. One of the more experienced men on our boat described catching tuna as "cranking a Volkswagon up off the bottom of the ocean".

[Rotorranch]

Makes my 4 pound rainbow, and my 7 pound largemouth bass seem small in comparison!

Even dwarfs my 25 pound carp, and the 40+ pound catfish I couaght out of the Mississippi river!

But back to trains, I saw the "Thomas" episode where they filled him from the stream. Except for the trains and the people and such, that is a neat layout! I try to catch Thomas when I can to get ideas for my layout!

Rotor