Yellowfin Tuna caught in Cast Net inside Cleawater Bay

  • Idk if you guys have heard about this yet, but a buddy of mine back home in Clearwater, FL showed it to me. It's quite recent.


    Apparently these mullet netters who were throwing on schools of mullet near the Bellaire boat ramp, which is about 2 miles inshore of the closest pass caught this 70lb Yellowfin Tuna in their Cast nets after seeing it bust up schools of mullet that they were trying to catch.


    idk, believe it if you want.. thought you guys might find it interesting.


    http://captdanny.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=5005340

  • I call BS on this story. Nobody has ever seen, caught or speared a yellowfin with in 150 miles of Clearwater Bay. This is just some clown cast netter with a fishhouse tuna.

  • I call BS on this story. Nobody has ever seen, caught or speared a yellowfin with in 150 miles of Clearwater Bay. This is just some clown cast netter with a fishhouse tuna.


    Ok "Mr 70lb Cubera in 29fsw"!

  • I call BS on this story. Nobody has ever seen, caught or speared a yellowfin with in 150 miles of Clearwater Bay. This is just some clown cast netter with a fishhouse tuna.


    Well thats not totally true. There have been YF caught in the Loop on a regular basis. Now I have caught a sailfish in 30ft on the Indian Shores Reef and have heard of sailfish on the flats in the Bahamas. Why not a lost YF tuna?

  • Yea, my buddy back home in Tampa showed me this too. I would say it is highly unlikely but not impossible for sure. I know I have caught some fish in places they don't belong.

  • the thing that supports this in my eyes if the freshness of the tuna...the colors all lit up and the fins and such at full flex, it would have to be a very very local fish for it to look that way no?


    That and if this was a doctored pic they did a hell of a job. But agreed Judah, that looks like a fresh catch to me too.

  • Just got off the phone with two of my buddies from back home. They both know the guy who claimed to catch it and said that hes a commercial baitfisherman. He provides all the pinfish for the bait shops in the area. Said he was a real good guy and really had no reason to lie about it.


    The way that the water temperature is up there, the water has gotten so cold so fast in these last couple of weeks, that it is possible that this tuna just followed the mullet in from their offshore spawn.


    the only two things that dictate fish movement are: water temp and bait. If the water temp is right and the bait is there, that means that the fish will be there. Now with all the displacement of habitat from the oil spill in the Norther Gulf, where these YF usually are, it is possible that this fish was just following the bait while trying to stay warm.

  • There was also a story about Richard Geer and a gerbil. The nurse who told me about that had no reason to lie either. Both stories are possible thought highly unlikely. I'd like to believe the fish story and doing so is harmless so I will choose to believe.


    Thanks for posting.

  • There was also a story about Richard Geer and a gerbil. The nurse who told me about that had no reason to lie either. Both stories are possible thought highly unlikely. I'd like to believe the fish story and doing so is harmless so I will choose to believe.


    Thanks for posting.


    Now that's just funny. :laughing3: However I think one dealing with a celebrity has more reason to lie because what's more fun than over embellishing a story or starting a rumor about them; some people get rich doing that! I would be far more inclined to believe the fish tale, especially with the picture and all. Though, not sure I'd want to see a pic to prove the Geer story :@. I too though am making the choice to believe this one.

  • For those not familiar with the area, 30 miles out is about 80'. 10 miles is about 40'. It would have had to travel a long way through shallow water to wind up inshore. I think it's more likely someone fishing the Loop caught it, and handed it to a mullet fisherman for the picture. Athough, I sure hope it's true (we dive out of that area at least a couple times a month).

  • Maybe a sport fisher was laying it on the fillet table and it took a swim and the bait caster harvested it.
    That fish looks very healthy and has no marks. I know their power just doesn't quit when they are trying to get free. Very hard to buy the story unless I saw it with my own eyes.


    It looks a lot like this one...:D
    Cheers, Don

  • Don is that pic in your bath tub?


    i hope you had a cast net handy :D


    No this a small tub for gun leak testing, dog washing and statics.:D the tuna was safely returned to my son's room'
    with out harm. This beautiful fish is a useful tool for deep and productive aquatic meditation.:D


    Cheers, Don

    "Great mother ocean brought forth all life, it is my eternal home'' Don Berry from Blue Water Hunters.


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  • No this a small tub is for gun leak testing, dog washing and statics.:D the tuna was safely returned to my son's room'
    with out harm. This beautiful fish is a useful tool for deep and productive aquatic meditation.:D


    Cheers, Don


    Hahahahaha, great answer...enjoy your shower meditation, just dont go blind or get hairy palms :nono:

    i like to spear fish

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