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Hot Tuna's Current Events
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Hot Tuna's latest catch!
1/27/08 The pictured angler is Chuck Cibuzar from Charlotte. Bob
Gerkens is in the background. Fish was 90" and weighted 440
lbs. It took only half an hour to get in with three anglers taking
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Hot Tuna recently took
first, second, and third place in the tuna category and firsts in both
the wahoo and mahi mahi categories in a fishing tournament at the
Beach Haven Marlin and Tuna Club in New Jersey. The winning wahoo was
60 lbs, the winning mahi mahi was 33lbs. The rest of the fish in the
picture are yellowfin tuna- 70-74lbs.
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On May 20th Hot Tuna
charter fished at the edge of the gulf stream coming out of Bogue Inlet
in North Carolina. The charter included Chuck Cibuzar (Charlotte,
NC), and Lance Lauffenburger, Addison Fox and Chad Spivey [all from
Swainsboro, NC]. The catch included eleven nice mahi in
the 20lb range.
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On the 29th and 30th
of April, 2007, Hot Tuna fished a split charter at the edge of the gulf
stream that included Chuck Cibuzar (Charlotte, NC) and
Paul Gosnell (London, England). The catch included two Wahoo
of 50 lbs., a number of mahi up to 28 lbs, and king mackerel. We
anticipate the the Yellowfin tuna bite starting any day. Photos
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The Hot Tuna boat recently
made its first Giant Bluefin catch of the season in North Carolina. It
weighted in at 421 lbs and was 87" long. The three persons on
board: Capt. Bob Gerkens, regular mate [Capt] Rich Strancensky, and
[Capt] Bob Earl fought the fish for approximately 45 minutes and then
swam it for half an hour before bleeding and boating it.
Bob Earl is owner of South
Chatham Tackle [www.southchathamtackle.com]
located in
Sanford, NC . He has developed a swimming hook (seen in some of the pictures)
which is similar to a flying gaff, but has a clip on it. The swimming
hook is attached to the lower jaw of the fish after it is brought to the
boat and lets the fish regain its color and lose lactic acid before the
fish is bleed and boated. This procedure makes it much more
valuable to Japanese market and worked well with the
pictured fish. Captain Earl has selected the Hot Tuna and
its crew as one of his demonstration boats for field testing of his
equipment.
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