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Giant Tuna to 800 lbs caught by Charter!

Sunday, August 28th, 2011

Fishing remains steady on the Cod and Haddock as well as the Tuna! Craig Young landed a 350 pound Blue fin Tuna earlier this week on a live mackerel he jigged up inside the harbor in the early morning.

Young Jake was on the boat mid week and he also was an excellent angler and fought a 200 pound Tuna to gaff. Some of these fish have been wild dumping 45 pounds of drag on the Shimano 130’s over and over again. The speed of the line dumping out at this incredible rate is quite a site to see!

The Todd Carrier group landed the fish of their life time last week as an 800 pound Giant Tuna inhaled their offering! The Shimano 130 light up like nobody’s business mid day in a fleet of boats, the reel was almost spooled when we got off the anchor and started chasing the fish between anchor lines and boats! The crew did an excellent job letting the fish run when told to and keeping the line tight to dance the boat out of harms way!

Forty minutes into the fight the Giant surfaced and thrashed around leaving a huge spray of white water and an incredible sight! We then got on top of the fish to put him into the death spiral and came up for an easy harpoon shot after 70 minutes!

Congrats to the whole group who all took turns and brought this fish to tail rope in a nice smooth way!
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Cod and Haddock was dampened by Dogfish at a few stops but some nice sized Haddock and Cod were brought in despite the abundance of Dog fish, Cod to 20 pounds and nice 8-9 pound Haddocks made for lots of tasty fillets for anglers.
Kayman Charters is gearing up for the Fall Cod season which is usually a sold out event into the end of October, if you have plans on stocking your freezer with Cod book your trip soon as dates will be filling in. Next split trip is Sept 14 and Sept 19 see kaymancharters.com to sign up

Todd and the group with their 800 pound Bluefin Tuna!

The best sight is in the water with the great colors of the fish!

Next Day Tuna not as huge was landed by Craig Young

This fish was 350 pounds

Jake does a great job angling this fish!

Some photos of the great anglers on the Lisa&Jake

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Blue-fin Tuna Endangered Species??

Friday, January 7th, 2011

As the Lisa&Jake and the Kayman Too get some love in dry dock I attended a “listing session” on Making Bluefin Tuna an endangered species. Thats right! for anyone who has a boat or fished on our boats the countless days of seeing Tuna busting from right outside the harbor to some of our spots 30 miles offshore.

This was petitioned by folks in Arizona to make Blue-fin endangered. It was presented to NOAA who did not see any reason that Blue-fin Tuna should not be put on the endangered list.

Shame on them for using old data that was catch data only and basically for commercial size fish! This cost you your tax dollars for five meetings houses plane fares and many administrative hours, to figure out that they don’t know what they are talking about.

It was made quite clear by approximately 100 fisherman and spotter pilots that there are so many juvenile and large Tuna of all different year classes on feeding days you can walk on them from Canadian waters down to the Jersey coast!

It was great to see a good turn out in Boston and I hope Maine goes the same way.

What will happen next;

After the Public Comment NOAA will evaluate the data and make a ruling by May 24th.

If all the comments were ignored and these meetings were a government parse and this Arizona group is tied into Obamas appointed environmentalist Dr Jane Lavabitch on May 24th they will rule Blue-fin Tuna an endangered species!

What does that mean?

Endangered species means NO TAKE or attempt to take. Yes no fishing for yellow fin or albacore swords ect…you might catch a Blue- fin Tuna!

Keep an eye on the actions of Jane Lavabitch and write any letter you can to stop here wasting your tax dollars to support these do gooders and put thousands of people out of work and take away a great public resources!

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Monday, March 29th, 2010

Date: March 18, 2010

Contacts: Hugh Vickery (DOI), 202-208-6416

Christine Eustis (FWS – Doha), 703-343-3939

Scott Smullen (NOAA), 202-482-6090

Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Proposal Not Adopted After Intense

Debate

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The proposal to list Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus)

under Appendix I of CITES was not adopted today by the Parties. The proposal,

sponsored by the Principality of Monaco, and strongly supported by the United States,

garnered intense debate by the Parties due to the importance of this migratory fish species

for commercial purposes. The final tally was 20 in support, 68 against and 30

abstentions.

“The U.S. is strongly committed to protecting the bluefin tuna and restoring the health of

the fishery for the benefit of all nations,” said Tom Strickland, head of the U.S.

Delegation. “Today’s vote was a setback for the Atlantic bluefin tuna, but we will keep

fighting to ensure that the fishery is managed sustainably, so that future generations may

see it return to health.”

“The United States remains committed to ensuring that International Commission for the

Conservation of Atlantic Tunas keeps its commitments to science-based, well enforced

management of bluefin tuna,” said National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

(NOAA) administrator Dr. Jane Lubchenco, under secretary of commerce for oceans and

atmosphere. “ICCAT took some unprecedented management steps in 2009, but they are

not enough. We will continue to work with ICCAT members to conserve and recover the

species.”

Spain, speaking on behalf of the European Union, introduced an amendment to the

proposal that would have provided for some assurance that the species could be delisted

in the future in order to attempt a compromise position. This amendment was also

rejected.

“The U.S. calls on all Parties of CITES and those who are also members of the

International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas to fulfill the promises

made today to conserve the Atlantic bluefin tuna,” said Jane Lyder, acting Head of the

U.S. Delegation. “The responsibility is now on ICCAT to manage the fishery in a

sustainable manner. The world will be watching.”

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