First tuna ever :)

[battlefish]

San Diego 1 day tuna trip
Fish count
Toni (Wicked) 0 landed 3 farmed
Jose (brother) 3 landed 1 farmed
Me 3 landed 1 farmed

For a few years now we have been wanting to go on a tuna trip and finally this year it happened. Overall I would say it was a good and fun trip but unfortunately my girlfriend didn't get to land a fish. The good thing is that it means a future tuna trip I think we also need to upgrade our gear, we kept hearing we had trout rods and coffee grinders. It was fun battling those fish with that gear, it was a tremendous fight. Some guy landed a couple nice 50+ lb fish that you see below *good thing I didn't hook into one of those

[Marley]

Congratulations, and welcome to tuna! I hope you ate a heart... Definitely want to get some conventional tackle. Everyone has their own likes (Shimano, Seeker) so if you can, try out some before you buy. Most landings have decent rental tackle so you might start there. Get the best you can afford, but be sure to save some bucks for the trips where you can talk to the deckhands about what would be good choices. They see it and play with it every day. Most of all, have fun!

[basshole1]

Battlefish...congrats on your first tuna!! i'm sure it was a blast and an experience you will never forget. As Marley stated, get the best gear you can afford...farming a trophy tuna would be absolutely heartbreaking. Good luck in your future tuna endeavors, cheers!!

[DockRat]

That is some great pics. Killer trip.
DR

[murrieta angler]

Nice job and congrats on your first, of many, to come...
Robert
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[TUNAVIC]

Those where some quality size Tuna there,very nice,for your first tuna trip you did great! Congrats,WTG

Cya Tuna Vic

[Fishingdachronarch201E7]

Very cool Battlefish!!!! congrats on your first Tuna!!!!

[battlefish]

Congratulations, and welcome to tuna! I hope you ate a heart... Definitely want to get some conventional tackle. Everyone has their own likes (Shimano, Seeker) so if you can, try out some before you buy. Most landings have decent rental tackle so you might start there. Get the best you can afford, but be sure to save some bucks for the trips where you can talk to the deckhands about what would be good choices. They see it and play with it every day. Most of all, have fun!

Thank you Marley, I didn't eat a heart but I did get to see a couple other guys do so. Good thing I didn't my trip would have been over at that point Thanks for the advise I will definitely check some gear out.

[battlefish]

Battlefish...congrats on your first tuna!! i'm sure it was a blast and an experience you will never forget. As Marley stated, get the best gear you can afford...farming a trophy tuna would be absolutely heartbreaking. Good luck in your future tuna endeavors, cheers!!

Thanks Basshole1, it was definitely a trip that I will never forget. My girlfriend was bummed that her gear was not good enough and that's an experience we don't want to revisit.

[battlefish]

Thanks Dockrat, agree on the killer trip, 100+ tuna for 35 anglers was not bad.