Shot My First Yellowfin (ahi) Tuna!

Seeing as how we don't have a gaff, I violated the important safety rule of "never load a speargun dry" and the even more important "never ever shoot a speargun dry" .

In the end, shooting a fish is an excellent way to both pull it out of the water and also deliver a fast and clean coup de grace.

And I'll confess that it was fun, too.

I didn't get any pics of the complete mess we made filleting the fresh fish on deck. It was many OSHA violations, I'm sure. We got more fresh Ahi than three of us have been able to eat in two meals.

Donn added the 1st batch of tuna to our curried veggies dinner and Zack made absolutely fabtastic wasabi poké for lunch.

I never thought I'd take a YFT with a 90cm. Maybe next time I'll jump in and take the shot.... But perhaps not in a 3-4 kt current, at night, several dozen miles offshore (I think we were 50-80 miles off at the time). There are limits to my "it seemed like a good idea at the time" decision-making.Read more