Chasing Tuna and Coins all Summer ......
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So the Tuna bite in San Diego for both BFT and YFT this year has been crazy and the YFT bite is really heating up right now.
I spent a lot of time and money chasing these hard fighting gamefish. I missed out on the BFT.
I also spent a lot of time and money chasing after some big coins this summer.
Looking back, both interests are somewhat related to each other, for me anyway. I now only go after big game fish and I have also transitioned into pretty much only going after big unique coins.
I got skunked all summer on three previous tuna trips but on the fourth trip (yesterday) we finally found them. My freezer is packed with fresh (now frozen) Ahi. Will be making poke today and smoking some tuna bellies and collars.
On the other hand, I scored almost every nice unique coin that I went after this summer.
I now collect coins and fish the same way, that is, Go Big or Go Home.
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That's great to hear! Are these coins all part of your personal collection? I can see more of your coins going into your collection as you focus on bigger coins.
I've never been BFT or YFT fishing but my fishing buddies have been. The largest fish I ever caught was a 35 lbs Salmon. That was a lot of fun but I haven't been out in a while unfortunately.
You should consider an EOC dealer token with a fish like the following:
I was told when I first started my coin business that you had to put up your personal collection as inventory in order to make it. That was excellent advice.
I expanded on that advise by only buying new inventory that I would have bought for my personal collection.
This method results in the only highest of quality, unique, and super eye appealing coins as a business inventory (collection).
That sounds like great advice to offer a premium product. It's harder to make it if your passion isn't in what you sell.
My neighbor almost got eaten by a white shark while yf
tuna fishing on a private boat at
Guadalupe Island this past week.
The beast jumped out of the water
flashed his teeth at him before crashing back into the sea.
Strangely no one was hooked up at the time. It was early morning and he was just standing at the rail looking out at the Island.
Alas no go pro or video. Totally unexpected. Too bad he could have gone viral. LOL
I have never gone tuna fishing.... Used to do a lot of salmon fishing when I lived in CA and WA...That is great fun and fresh caught salmon is a real taste treat.....and sockeye is the best of the salmon. Cheers, RickO
@ErrorsOnCoins I have bean chasing fish too ! 👍 in Gloucester and Cape Cod Ma this summer
So are those flatfish called flounder back east? We call them Halibut in the west
Natch catches and great food
markelman1125 Do you save your scraps for Lobster?
Nothing goes to waste here as after the lobster bait everything else goes into the mulch pit for my garden.
@ErrorsOnCoins I actually used filleted flounder parts to catch the flounders on the deep sea fishing trip. The flounders are cannibalistic.
I also tried to use the scraps from my off shore fishing of the scup but it when bad vary quickly in the freezer so I threw it out. I also used sea worms for off shore fishing. 🎣
@ErrorsOnCoins I could try and use fish parts for blue crab bait 👍
I might get more crabs than last time 👍
This is a catch from 2 years ago.
It’s been a good summer in San Diego.
New baby has cut into my surf time. But a couple nice sunsets (including great rainbow one evening) and some coins.
My current "Box of 20"
I have been as well off of Cape Ann / Newburyport Ma......
Just got back a couple weeks ago from my annual trip to Zambia. The Zambezi tigerfish were active, but too wily this year. Hooked into several nice ones but they all threw the hook (we must fish with barbless hooks) on flying jumps. I managed to land a few smaller ones, but none worthy of a photo. But...on the last morning on the Zambezi, since the tigers were not biting, I decided to go for Vundu, the Zambezi catfish. I hooked this one after only 5 minutes and it fought like a dog!!! Wore me out for sure! It made several trips back and forth to the boat, only to run again. It was like fighting a diesel truck - slow steady strong pull. The drag was whistling! Anyway, finally got it on board - it was definitely photo worthy! It weighed in at about 80 lbs. Biggest fish this year at the two camps I visit!
mbogoman
https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/classic-issues-colonials-through-1964/zambezi-collection-trade-dollars/7345Asesabi Lutho
LOL! That doesn't look like a Kayak!
@mbogoman, if thats the rod you used in the picture I must say I am impressed!
It was an Ugly Stik with 20 lb test. It bent completely over a couple times when the beast switched and ran under the boat.
Edit to add: It's all catch and release on this section of the Zambezi, so the big boy (or girl) will live to breed again...
mbogoman
https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/classic-issues-colonials-through-1964/zambezi-collection-trade-dollars/7345Asesabi Lutho
What a life baby...way cool and be safe out there...Sunny, Beautiful San Diego is the greatest city in our great country...I like to tell people when I’m out on the road that we have “boringly perfect weather!”
San Diego's Del Mar beach,
as seen from Powerhouse park
Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry
catfish is good eating.
Those are Flukes from the east coast.
Left-side up flounder are flukes, and right-side up flounders are called flounders. But the easiest way to tell a fluke is the sharp teeth while flounder has fat lips.
Me 2
@Paradisefound ...weekly/daily spurts of tropical rain doesn’t qualify as boring...but almost perfect, yes
92 is a deal killer.
Way too hot.
Nothing over 72.
I did some fishing in Hawaii with my son in law on vacation a few weeks back. We caught TWO 100+lb Yellowfin. Those fish are fighters but wow, nothing like the sight of one of those being pulled aboard.
"It's like God, Family, Country, except Sticker, Plastic, Coin."
@ErrorsOnCoins nice haul!
@markelman1125 nice pics!
@Bob13 cute kiddos!
@mbogoman that is one ugly beast !
Boys weekend steelhead fishing
Great thread
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
@Justacommeman looks like you are going to have a feast; are Steel heads a type of trout ? They look similar.
Less colorful rainbow trout. A little bit bigger. Salmon family
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
Coho salmon running Columbia river near Astoria Oregon .
I give away money. I collect money.
I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.
Good eatin' ..Real nice errors.
First off, what the heck is BFT or YFT?
Second, I grew up near Gloucester MA. One summer I'll never forget, for a variety of reasons, was 1976. One day during the early part of the summer I was watching some lobstermen bait their traps with mackerel scraps. A couple of weeks later I was on the Brittany peninsula in France watching fishermen bait their mackerel jigs with lobster scraps. Needless to say, seeing these two events so closely together made me smile... and wonder why there wasn't more trade going on between the two places.
U.S. Type Set
BFT Blue Fin Tuna
YFT Yellow Fin Tuna
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
SKT star kist tuna
Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry
I caught an extremely rare and big raw coin tonight, hope it grades well at PCGS
.....out of the kitchen if you can not take the heat
It’s not the heat for me, it’s the rain...my hand-stitched driving loafers just can’t get wet, that’s all
Just got off a boat in san diego. We got 80. Lost a 100lb or so bluefin at the gaff. Going out tonight for 2.5 days of chasing tuna and then heading to long beach to chase coins
Hmmmm, are there no limits on how many you can take?
That looks like a sportfishing boat with many passengers.
BFT limit is two per day, YFT is 5 per day.
I was on a private boat with 3 anglers in the OP.
It is called Meat-Hooking on Canada's west coast..
what are you doing with all that tuna???
For my trip, all the best meat is vacuum-sealed and frozen the same day the tuna was caught. Fresh frozen tuna available for dinner at our whim.
Will be stocking up on lobsters in less than a month when the season opens.
Had a group of guys. We gave a lot away kept the nice bluefin the next batch will be prepared flash frozen and shipped home for a winter of sushi
Stay safe out there.
Always considered them ocean going bows.
Stinks the king fishing continues to decline.
My 1866 Philly Mint Set