By Jim Field
Here's an interesting piece that appeared today on the Marlin Magazine website. Must be an incredible experience to be trolling a sardine using a Penn 30 and 9/0 hook (shown at left) and attach oneself to such a monster--and then actually bring it onboard. Surely not good to eat, but an excellent trophy. Here's the story:
Angler Mike Livingston brought a 405.2-pound yellowfin tuna to the dock Monday [December 6] in San Diego that could qualify as a new world record. The existing record-holder is a 388-pounder caught in Mexico in 1977. The fish was caught west of Magdalena Bay aboard the long-range charter Vagabond on November 30 and cheers went up as it was weighed on Point Loma Sportfishing's certified scales almost a week later. Livingston was fishing with Capt. Mike Lackey.
"I got him on a sardine," Livinsgtson told Bill Roecker of Fishingvideos.com, "and a 9/0 Owner Super Mutu hook. I used 100-pound Soft Steel Ultra line and 100-pound Power Pro Spectra on my Penn 30 reel, which was a gift from a buddy and was blueprinted by Cal Sheets. I custom-wrapped the rod myself, It's a five and a half-footer, a no-name. After all those years, since 1974, I've been out fishing on many boats, and I get this one on a no-name rod! My best one before was about a 100-pounder."
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