Personal Narrative: My First Yellowfin Tuna

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I still remember the day as if it were yesterday, the day I reeled in my first yellowfin tuna. The morning started off as any other morning, wake up, shower, and dress but this day I ended up on a boat destined to head for the oil rigs off the coast of Louisiana. It was a long and cold ride out to the rigs, about one and a half hours of hitting waves as we all cuddled up at the stern. As the sun was rising from the horizon it started to warm us up, by the time we got to the oil rigs the sun way a pretty good distance into the sky. The clouds only lettings small slights of the sunshine through. Once we got to the rigs we began fishing for bait, using a steel leader with 10 small hooks and a lead weight at the end. We would be right next to the oil rigs casting the line next to the giant steel pillars that supported the rig. And with one reel in there would be approximately 6 mackerel stuck on the small hooks. I wouldn’t be lying if I told you catching the bait fish was more fun than the actual tuna. …show more content…

Once the lines were set we started trolling the waters about half a mile away from the rigs, it wasn’t even 10 minutes later we had a tuna on and the reel in the process began. I know this probably seems like the best part of the story but I’ll tell you that reeling in 300-pound fish that constantly swims in circles isn’t an easy job. It took approximately 20 minutes to get the tuna into the boat having each family member take turns reeling in. It was a tough job getting those fish into the boat but it was worth every second of

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