Hawaii Kayak Fishing: Huge Yellowfin Tuna at High Noon!

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Bait was super tough but luckily my fishing buddy is the Opelu whisperer. After missing a few strikes in the morning, some boater decided to do donuts around us and scare all the bait away. A few hours later, the fish came back and I chummed a bunch of frozen opelu chunks in the hopes of bringing some predators around. It didn't take long before the surface started boiling with bait and pelagic predators...


Kayak: 2015 Hobie Revolution 13 "Shark Magnet"

Fish Bag: Hobie Large soft cooler

Fish Finder: Garmin Striker 4

Main and backup rods: Shimano Trevala 6'0 XXH, Ugly Stik Tiger Elite Jigging 6'6 MH

Bait rod: Tsunami Trophy Slow Pitch 6'0 MH

Reels: Penn Spinfisher VI LiveLiner 8500, Shimano Spheros 14000 XG, Shimano Spheros SW Inshore 4000, Avet MXL 3/6 two speed

Line and terminal tackle: 65 lb spiderwire, 40lb PowerPro, 40lb Berkeley Vanish Fluorocarbon, Sakura 60lb Flurocarbon leader ,35 lb Knot2Kinky Titanium wire leader, Gamakatsu 5/0 live bait hooks, Gamakatsu 5/0 Octopus J hooks, Gamakatsu 6/0 Octopus circle hooks, Promar LED "Disco"

home made sabiki rig for bait: 12lb Ande monofilament (main), 10lb Flurocarbon (branches), size 8 gold limerick hooks, Mar-Mellow Lures 1.5" glow strips, Tylah Lures 1.5" glow strips, HiPerformance Lures "fish sticks", 4 oz bank sinker

Camera: Gopro Hero 8 Black, GoPro Hero 9 Black, GoFish Camera, GoFish Cam trolling camera

[jeremyneill]

You’re a legend That’s unreal in 50lb test!

[jamesdean]

Wow! You two did an awesome job, and excellent work on that end game 🙌

[sharaguchi]

Legend indeed! That fish tested your tackle, line capacity, kayak capacity and paddling capacity! You and Jason are great partners. Thanks for sharing the catch video!

[rocket]

What a battle! Had me on the edge of my seat.

[jasonpalacol]

As usual, AWESOME work there MAGNET man!!!! 🫵🏽🔨

[yak_kiko]

Such a battle!!! The spin of death had me at the edge of my chair. Yessah congrats!!!

[dawsondaniel]

Yeah Shea!!! Wow, what a solid one!! What a workout that looked like haha! and Jason did a great job being backup for you!!! Nice work as always!!!!

[bAler]

Perfect little guppy, Bro. 🤣 Congrats!

[tadaosuwa]

Congratulations on a big fish! Great job landing him.

[sonnyd]

Congratulations! You that’s an AHI! Good going on this catch, you did an excellent job. Wow, what a nice catch and you were thinking shark a one point. 🎉
Aloha

[facopspec]

Yessah, awesome action! I was hoping bait tube wouldn’t cut da line. The line was sounding pretty tight. 🤙🏼and mahalo buggah was ono!

[Madocthevindicator]

I would love to fish your waters. Pacific Ocean fishing here in Oregon is Rock Fish, Ling Cod, Salmon, maybe Halibut. We kayak in rough seas, sometimes 5-7 ft swell. Good catch, excellent content here. What size Avet reel?

[princefireside]

You need a bigger kayak! Awesome catch bro.

[Rustyrea]

Thanks for sharing the action. Nice one! Hows them sickles, WOW! Didn't see the weight in the video, or comments. How much did this bugga come out to be?

[shotgunaaron]

What a slob of a fish! Congrats!!! Looked like work getting him in...

[kdiako]

Nice Catch! What does your friend use for opelu?

[fishhunt]

That was an awesome catch in really favorable conditions. One of the things I think is crazy is when we fish live bait we always want one very lively, perfect looking. If this perfect bait gets chewed or dies we give up on it, we feel we are not fishing anymore. But we will fish that exact same bait cut up into chunks to catch the same fish😅.

[scubagoat]

HECK YEAH! Beast didn;t want to give up an INCH! Is that your PB??

[chaleys]

Nice faka 👍. Guys get hard time catching on one boat and here you stay in one kayak. Right on congrats. How’s the meat since you don’t have a cooler?

[donaldfroid]

That was a war not fishing 😂😂😂. Finally it took how long to land?