On Fri, 27 May 2005 06:54:54 -0400, thunder
wrote:

On Thu, 26 May 2005 23:43:09 +0000, Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:


I figured out the cost per pound (fuel, food/beer for crew members and
miscellaneous stuff like bait, new rods and reels and it came out to
something like $63 dollars.

I haven't been since. :)

What I find astounding, is the price the Japanese will pay for a big
Bluefin. There was a 238 kilogram Bluefin that fetched $80,000. That
plain amazes me.

http://www.sunsonline.org/trade/proc...8/10300698.htm

This was years ago and I don't remember all the exact details, but my
wife's cousin had a 50 something foot Hatteras and spent a lot of time
billfishing. I talked him into doing the Gloucester Tuna Tournament
(this must has been in the late '70s -about the time of the Master
Marine/Unification Church deal) and we went.

We caught a giant and while the details escape me, it was in the 1,000
class - really big freakin' tuna. When we returned to the dock, there
were some Japanese there - they took a sample, talked amongst
themselves and offered $35,000 for the fish cash - this was '70s
dollars I might add.

He fished with that money for four straight years.

Later,

Tom