June 22, 2013
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Tuna
Tuna
He once knew a fisherman VFW friend of his
Who was paid $27,500 dollars for one fish
It was a monster - came in at 1016 pounds
Might be a record he thought!
Caught off the ‘banks’ in the freezing Atlantic
A Japanese money boat
Watched him battle it for almost seven hours
Before it finally gave it up
He abled it over and lashed it to his 30-foot Rebecca W
It was too big to hoist up into the boat
The Japs came on board to check it out
One of them was a big son-of-a-bitch toting a side-arm
But they just wanted to bargain
They bought over a portable winch-scale
And hoisted the fish out of the water for the poundage
They paid him cash-money - US hundred-dollar bills
After they left
He hid all those bills in the bottom of his bait barrel
Because the Coast Guard was nosing around
It took him and his wife two weeks to get rid of most of the smell
Before they drove down to five Portland banks
And bought five $5-Thousand Dollar CD's for themselves
And their three kids
Comments (4)
Fish story if I ever heard one! Hehe! Probably true though...
@murisopsis - We were a bit skeptical too at one of our VFW meetings but Mark showed up at the next meeting with the 5 CD's!...
Finally, your blog sent a notice to my email that you had posted. After reading here: http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/bluefin-tuna/ I believe that guy’s story. But, if the Japanese strong man had not come along, would he have dragged the fish along in the water? I really know nothing about fishing except that a tuna a thousand-plus pounds is a mighty heavy fish. You related his story well.
@ElaineWestheimer - Thank you Elaine... I understand sushi in Japan goes for over a hundred dollars a pound... Over the last thirty years or so there have been a number of tuna reportedly caught off the Grand Banks that exceeded a thousand pounds... I believe the record fish reportred by a Canadian came in at over 1100 lbs but a lot of these fellows don't broadcast such huge strikes for obvious reasons... It's called the IRS... or whatever it's called in Canada...
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