John LoGioco's Blog – January 2012 Archive (3)

NMFS Closes Bluefin Fishery, Tag & Release OK

Folks, NMFS has closed the large medium and giant Atlantic bluefin tuna fishery for the General Category (commercial category) and for charter boats fishing commercially on January 22nd, 2012.  For recreational bluefin fishermen, this mostly impacts boats fishing right now in North Carolina where the fish are big and the captains make an agreement with charters that the boat keeps fish to sell under their commercial license. …
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Added by John LoGioco on January 22, 2012 at 3:11pm — No Comments

Man vs. Tuna, A Fair Fight

This is one of my favorite videos of all time.  Take notice of the small things like the white feather jigs, leather harness belt and the small rail guard keeping these guys from falling into the waves with the tuna and sharks.  I also love the WWII like helmets these guys wore.  Stay with the video for the first few minutes and wait for the bigger tuna to start coming over the rail.  Truly amazing.  In our day of ultra modern fishing equipment both recreational and…

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Added by John LoGioco on January 2, 2012 at 4:16pm — No Comments

Panama Sportfishing Lodge Adopts Conservation, Tags 52 Yellowfin Tuna

“Macho!, Macho!, Macho!, que paso Macho?” crackled from the radio every morning as our three center consoles steamed toward Isla Montosa (map below) for a full day of yellowfin tuna jigging and popping while fishing from John De LaCruz’s…

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Added by John LoGioco on January 2, 2012 at 2:52pm — No Comments

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