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Old 04-02-11, 03:57 PM   #1
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Default Local man catches record tuna

I don't know this guy ( my bil does) but this is cool.

Elliston native plays role in record catch

My feature on today’s Outdoors page on The Roanoke Times was about the 805.5-pound North Carolina record bluefin tuna caught recently off the Outer Banks.
One of the key players in the catch was George Cecil (right), a native of Elliston who lives on the Outer Banks now and works as a fishing mate on The Sea Breeze with charter captain Ned Ashby (left).
Not to downplay the efforts of the guy who cranked this fish in and will now get his name in the record books, as that was 2 1/2 hours of serious work, but these two guys are the ones who made this record possible.
One of my co-workers just came by and said when he showed his son the story this morning the son thought it was an April Fool’s joke. No joke.
And, to answer the question I got from a reader earlier about what they did with this fish, it’s pretty simple: They ate it. Or, at least, are eating it. Cecil said they got about 500 pounds of meat off this giant. At $10 a pound (which is conservative), this is one offshore trip that was well worth the investment.
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Old 04-02-11, 04:15 PM   #2
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I hope it tastes good. It better, as they just flushed a ton of money down the drain haha.

If I landed that fish, I would have been on the horn INSTANTLY to a cold storage place and a good fish monger.

The Japanese would have paid a fortune for that thing if it graded out right.
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Old 04-02-11, 08:18 PM   #3
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Wow! 500# of meat? That's a lot of tuna steaks!
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Old 04-02-11, 09:17 PM   #4
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man...........dat ain't no chicken of the sea. could it be CHARLIE the TUNA?
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Old 04-02-11, 11:48 PM   #5
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Holy Crap!!! That is a monster. The biggest one I have personally seen at Oregon Inlet was 187#, but that was years ago and I have only been there a couple times. I went out of there on a trip about 40 miles out but we didn't catch anything to brag about. I would like to try again.
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