Paul Boote
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In the Adriatic. Love the way the angler smells his fly reel after a run, as well he might. Putting them back, too.
http://youtu.be/qlLswTQQNoI
http://youtu.be/qlLswTQQNoI
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Tuna on Fly
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Stephen Pritchard
Senior Member
Nice link, I'm guessing size 14 Stoats tail
Nigel Gray
Senior Member
Great footage and, as you say, great that they are practicing catch and release.
(I initially misheard the singer and thought he was singing 'John Baker' not 'Jamaca'. Reminded me I need to order in more Frost and Flood. Bizzare.)
(I initially misheard the singer and thought he was singing 'John Baker' not 'Jamaca'. Reminded me I need to order in more Frost and Flood. Bizzare.
)Paul Boote
No Longer a Member
There's a downside to the C&R tuna-on-fly malarkey, I believe, Nigel - fine and dandy if you are fishing for only small to medium sized fish, but not if there are biggies about, for you will never land the latter on a 12-15-weight fly rod and Tibor Pacific, having to break them off early or kill them during a massively prolonged fight: highly irresponsible and unsporting fishing. Best part of the video, to my mind, was the surface "blitz"ing of baitfish by the tuna - a sight I'd love to see (saw it once, off Malta, when I was sixteen or seventeen), maybe even cast and hook just one and feel its speed and power, then return to watching what is now an increasingly rare spectacle.