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Holy smokes......I don't even care if you Photoshoped it! Just joshin' you there. Man that's a big fish!

When is the sashimi party!

Well done....that is a fish of a lifetime. When Capt. Mike sees it....well, who knows what will happen!

Major congrats on that one.......

bart2puck wrote:

whatever. I saw him swimming around in cedar.

Yeah, very nice fish.  They have been slamin the big eyes out of OI for the last several days........yesterday's  (Sunday's) big eyes:

182, 147, 133, 104, 176 and 168 lbs.

Holy smoly that is a nice Eye..



Capt Mike

I need to get down to OI.  Many more big eyes caught yesterday, including a 223 pounder!

They are still wailing on the big eye's at IO today.............
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I go down for cobia in mid-July on the Rock Solid!

Last edited by Curly (Jun-13-12 3:58PM)

This was a 201 lb Citation "big eyed" tuna that Mr. Rapala Andy caught on his trip to Nags Head last week, it definitely isn't an atlantic blue fin. I know fishermen that have been going down for the past 10 to 15 years and they fish one full or two full days a year around this same area and have never pulled one in the boat that big. Clearly from these reports there are currently some big fish being caught out of that area these past few weeks. I'm sure there are at least a hundred or more private charter boats all over Nags Head that go out of pirate cove or oregon inlet everyday. Out of all those boats your most likely going to get quite a few quality fish each day i'm sure.

Curly makes me want to call in sick Friday and hop in the car to go down and get a private charter so I can and hook into a 100-150 pounder and call it a day lol.  Then i'd come back to the dock, get that big boy all butchered up into some nice tuna steaks then head back home with a few coolers full of fresh tuna meat.  Now that would be cool but it's just not that easy, don't be to sold by those reports.

All those tuna he posted that people have been slammin on: 182, 147, 133, 104, 176 and 168 lbs. are still well below this 201 lb beast of a big eyed tuna!

Andy is simply sharing his nags head experience and on his first and only day down there he landed his first citation Tuna.  Who cares about all the other people paying for charters and what big eyes they have been slammin on this past week.  It isn't quite that easy considering he had 4 other guys fishing with him in the boat not to mention the capt and his first mate, and don't forget all the other 100 plus boats out in the water that day.

Good luck to anyone who drives down and back to the banks. If you are skilled and lucky enough to land a Big Eyed Tuna citation on your first trip down then huge congrats!  I can't wait to get down there very soon.

On another note I think Andy said during the whole day their boat caught only two mahi, two small yellow fin, one 30lb big eye and then the one large fella he decided to share with the forum!

To anyone on this forum who makes that trip please post some pics up of all the big eyed monsters you catch during your trip.  I don't want to read any stories about how you had a 200 plus pounder on and it got away when it was 10 feet from the boat

It's about time to spice up this forum and start posting up some big summer hawgs!

Last edited by Eweezy (Jun-14-12 11:40PM)

About 18 years ago, I went out of Pirates Cove for tuna with a group from work.  Back then, it was around $550 to book an all-day trip (triple that today).  We booked 2 days, but were only able to fish one.......due to the weather.  No big eyes, but we caught a ton of big yellowfins (35-50 lbs).  We stopped fishing when the boat's fish box was packed full and would not hold another fish.  It was a blast and our arms were noodles when we got back in.  The fish cleaning bill was around $150, but we each had around 100 pounds of tuna "loins" to take home.  We had "fresh" shashimi that night at the beach house until we couldn't eat another bite. A trip I'll never forget.  We ate tuna at home for a long time .

Luckily, I have been in the chair to catch a few nice ones (bull dolphin, yellow fin tuna on the jig, wahoo) ......but those were company paid trips!