Bigeye Tuna Photos

A powerful bigeye caught in the Azores.� (Photo, J. Vertommen)

Capt. Skip Nielsen of Islamorada, FL, removing the hooks from his Azorean bigeye of about 135 lbs. prior to release.� (Photo, J. Chambers)

Below, a "matched set" of� 175-200 lb bigeye taken by Matt Brown (l) near the island of Faial in the Azores.������� (Photo, J. Weiland)

Above, a great day's catch of bigeye from the "glory days" in the Hudson Canyon off New Jersey.� These 7 fish were caught by Jack Cashman on the rod and Bob Pisano at the helm aboard his Tuna Hunter.� Their weights ranged from 200 to 325 lbs.� Now, it's rare to catch even one.� (Photo, J. Cashman)

Above and left, one of the first big game fish - and then a world record bigeye (295 lbs.) - ever caught in the Azores by a sport fisherman.� Pictured above are angler Dr. Arsenio Cordeiro (r), who pionered big game fishing in the islands, Captain Sampaio (l) and the journalist, Van Campen Heilner.� His 1960 article in Field and Stream first brought news of the Azores' big game fish and this new world record to the attention of the Americas.� Commercial fishermen have taken bigeyes here weighing 400 to 600 lbs.� (Photos, family A. Cordeiro)

Recent cover - Big Game Fishing Journal, Sept./Oct. 2001 issue.

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Above, the 80-pound line class world record Pacific bigeye tuna.� It weighed 375 lbs. and was caught in 2000 by off Salinas, Ecuador, by Francisco Sola.

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Daily "Kill-o-Meter"

Longliners fish most heavily during the periods when the moon is brightest. So, this real-time image of the moon phase shows when the kill of swordfish is greatest and least. It also shows when the kill of blue marlin, white marlin, sailfish, sharks, tunas, sea turtles, marine mammals and a host of other marine life is also greatest - even though they are not even targeted. For more, see link above.

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