Field Notes
Fresh Tuna Salad, Cajun style
This isn’t your cafeteria tuna salad. This version is made with fresh or frozen yellowfin tuna since the Gulf Coast has some of the best tuna fishing. […]
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Species spotlight: Yellowfin Tuna
Yellowfin tuna swim throughout all the tropical and subtropical oceans of the earth. These big, bluewater fish are fun to catch and quite tasty. […]
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Huge tuna is record
A giant tuna, officially caught by Mike “Mikey” McElroy III of Hattiesburg, will soon be certified as the Mississippi state record. […]
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VIDEO: Is this the world-record tuna
The heaviest tuna I ever landed was a roughly 115-pound yellowfin. But the meanest one was a 90-pounder that almost killed me. I mean the danged thing just refused to give up, and I almost threw the rod, reel and stand-up belt overboard in capitulation. […]
Tidal Talk
Chicken of the Gulf
Mississippi gets a bad rap in the media. We’re last in the country in supposedly important things and first in supposedly bad things.
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Tuna trip is totally worth it
“Where is the best place to get good sushi?” the stranger asked. “About 120 miles that way,” Joey Davis said, gesturing to the southwest. Less than 48 hours later, Davis, Colton Wood and Hussein Zayed, all of Ocean Springs, were drifting cut bait on the Lump, south of Venice, La., in Zayed’s 27 Conch. […]
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Giant California yellowfin tuna battle for world record
Two huge yellowfin tuna – the two biggest ever – have been caught in the past couple of months, but only one is being considered for a new world record. John Petruescu caught a 445-pound yellowfin just before sunrise on Dec. 9 while fishing on the Excel, a long-range charterboat out of San Diego, Calif., Although his fish surpassed the existing world record by a full 40 pounds, it was will not be considered as a possible world record because the boat’s captain grabbed the fishing rod twice during the fight, disqualifying it under the rules of the International Game Fish Association (IGFA). […]
Sound & Sea
December is tuna time
Scott Sullivan of Gulfport is captain of a 30-foot boat for the Mexican Gulf Fishing Company in Pass Christian. On the back of his boat, he has three, 300-horsepower Yamaha engines, and he can blister the wind running out to blue water from Point Cadet in Biloxi. […]
Sound & Sea
If it’s December, it’s offshore time
If you think about the enjoyment of delicious fresh tuna cooking on the grill while you’re watching your favorite football game on a Sunday afternoon, you’ll realize how much your friends, family and business associates will enjoy a tuna-fishing trip as a Christmas present.