Ya'all ain't gonna believe this! Tuna on the beach!?!

[Fish Dog]

I was at Crystal Cove Beach today, near Reef Point and came across this...

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f65/caninelaw/cctuna1.jpg

A TUNA!! Looks like about a 30 pound or so Yellowfin, maybe a bluefin, hard to tell because it looks like it's been dead a few days and is all faded and the eyeballs are missing. I'm going by the length of the Pec fins. Anyway, the only thing I can figure is either someone would have had to dump it there as a joke, but walking a 30+ pound fish down to CC beach seems like a lot of work when you can just drive up to some other beaches, or maybe it fell off a tuna boat that was heading into the cannery in San Pedro and drifted in, or, maybe, it just got totally lost and ended up dying in the cold water up here. Anyway, I'm not trying to pull one over on anyone, I did actually find this thing today. If anyone wants to check there was a CC Ranger named Scott that saw this too and can verify it. Here's a wide shot showing the Reef Point rocks in the background.

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f65/caninelaw/cctuna2.jpg

Maybe we'll get an early run of tuna this year?? Anyway, I should have taken it to the Balboa Angling Club and claimed the 1st tuna of the year flag, LOL.

[bigfishlittlefish]

Ewwwwww! And yet, strangely exhilarating.

bflf

[DavidE]

Looks like it was pretty high up on the beach. What a trip.

[sansou]

One word: Global warming.


lol.

[jplee3]

Ewwwwww! And yet, strangely exhilarating.

bflf

You should have brought it home and made HANDROLLS!

:D

That's pretty out of the ordinary... I guess Nemo didn't find his way home this time :|

[SanDimasLMB]

One word: Global warming.


lol.

thats two,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ahahahaha :wink:

[one_leg]

One word: Global warming.


lol.

thats two,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ahahahaha :wink:
Another fine product of the American Educational System.j/k Rich.
What are you doing up at 1:22 am?

[sansou]

One word: Global warming.


lol.

thats two,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ahahahaha :wink:
Another fine product of the American Educational System.j/k Rich.
What are you doing up at 1:22 am?

Just got home!

[one_leg]

Just got home!
Oh, OK, your free to go then.
Take a look at my new post in the general section if you have a minute.

[IslandBoi]

One word: Global warming.


lol.

thats two,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ahahahaha :wink:
Another fine product of the American Educational System.j/k Rich.
What are you doing up at 1:22 am?

and what r u doind up at 1:23 am, Mr. one_leg

[Sea Murda]

Yum! sushi! hahaha!
I say it got lost!
either way, thanks for sharing!

[IslandBoi]

It's a conspiracy !!!! the government wants us to think that tuna is going to be of plenty this year but really, the government secretly killed them all, sorry guys no fishing for tuna this year

[one_leg]

Looks like it was trying to bypass the usual millions and millions of years of evolution. See everybody, crawling out of the primordial soup ain't as easy as it might first appear!

[Cangler]

It looks a bit fishy if you ask me ..... :lol:

[Halibut Dude]

Ha I accidently left my tuna there my bad XD

[labboss2003]

this may sound funny but on wed afternoon right out of newport harbor three of could have swear we seen a 30-40lb tuna crashing the surface
thought i was seeing things but after seeing this ??????????????????

[sapdawg11]

i still say you were seeing things. lol

[Kalicos]

haha i call BS also. the pic looks OLD and pixilated.

[sapdawg11]

I think the pic is genuine. But seeing tuna crashing outside newport harbor in 60 degree water in april?? probably not tuna

[SanDimasLMB]

this may sound funny but on wed afternoon right out of newport harbor three of could have swear we seen a 30-40lb tuna crashing the surface
thought i was seeing things but after seeing this ??????????????????

BS! Last year even when the water was 75 degrees in local waters we only saw Dorado locally. and your saying that there was a rouge tuna that jumped out of the water although the water temps. are 60 degrees? plus your post count is only 2 which makes it harder for me to believe

[sapdawg11]

hope i didn't start a war. Maybe he did think they looked like tuna. All I'm saying is that I'm sure they weren't. But who knows. Stranger things have happened.

[labboss2003]

didnt mean mean to start a bs session but like i said it looked like a tuna crashing might have been a big wsb but it had that tuna shape and the fact i have only 2 posts on this board dosent make any difference i only recently found this very cool board ive fished the big pond for nearly 30 years and seen a few tuna here and there

[sansou]

Could easily have been bonito too....

Who knows....strange stuff all the time when it comes to the Big Blue.

[Beeracuda211]

DAMN! I GOT ON HERE THINKING "TUNA ON THE BEACH"?? THERE MUST BE PICS OF CHICKS ON HERE HALF NAKED>... I am a little dissapointed!!! LMAO :rofl: :rofl:

B/C

[Greg Madrigal]

HAHAHAH!!!!!LOL!!!! BC-YOU r CRAZZZZYYYYYYY

GM

[SanDimasLMB]

DAMN! I GOT ON HERE THINKING "TUNA ON THE BEACH"?? THERE MUST BE PICS OF CHICKS ON HERE HALF NAKED>... I am a little dissapointed!!! LMAO :rofl: :rofl:

B/C

Too many beers? :rofl:

[Granny Fish]

Yeah, BC too many beers....

Need another one? :food:

[one_leg]

Don't listen to em B/C. You can never have Two too many Beers.

[hookemdano]

The bluefins washing up are from the commercial pens down south. They were moving them before the last storm and one of them hit a high point and about 30 tons escaped. These stragglers obviously went in the wrong direction.

[pipelayer5150]

If you look in the latest issue of western outdoors there is a story in there of a lifeguard who found a 48 lber in the surf still alive in hb a few weeks ago. Maybe its a omen of things to come. im crossing my fingers.