San Clemente Island Bluefin 8/13/18

Started by Vintage Offshore Tackle, August 14, 2018, 04:26:53 AM

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Vintage Offshore Tackle

231 lbs (taped - 72.5" X 50.5"). Two hours ten minutes.  Flying fish on kite. Calstar 7455XXXH.  Penn International 70 Big Game.  OTR harness.  Alutecnos rod plate. Personal best California tuna.

Shark Hunter

Life is Good!

foakes

Congratulations, Randy!

Long battle...

Best,

Fred
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Swami805

Holy COW Randy, heck of a fish. Congratulations!
Do what you can with that you have where you are

Vintage Offshore Tackle

Thanks guys!  I broke my first fish off on 100 lb
on a Flat Fall in the dark after 45 minutes with about 50 yards of line out.  It sounded like a .22 went off!  I was probably overly careful with this one because it was getting late and I knew that I wasn't going to get another shot.

Reel 224

Hell of a fish Randy! Your skinny but must have bin puckered with that baby. :o ;D ;D.

Joe 
"I don't know the key to success,but the key to failure is trying to please everyone."

thorhammer

Great work RP! That's where the rubber meets the road!


John

Aiala

Mazal tov, Randy! A veritable livyatan  :o ... bravo!  :D

~A~
I don't suffer from insanity... I enjoy every minute of it!  :D

Steve-O

WOW!  What a nice catch, Randy!

I'll celebrate with you at lunch today. Albeit mine is a much smaller species - King Salmon from Alaska.

xjchad

What a monster!  Congratulations Randy!!!
Husband, Father, Fisherman

Decker

Congrats, Randy!  You certainly deserve it.

Now let's see you catch that fish on a reel with one of your custom Tiburon frames! ;D

Hardy Boy

Wow Randy ! Nice job. One day I'll get one that big.

Cheers:

Todd
Todd

MarkT

When I was your age Pluto was a planet!

mikeysm

Looks great randy food for the table.