Feb 16th Tuna Boat Adventure

The ship picture out of order

On our way out to the ship



Our Captain Adam

Climimg aboard

Adams Dog

Speed boats for chasing tuna etc

This net piled over 20 ft high is approx a mile long pus 300 ft deep when it is set

the helicopter launch pad used to locate the schools of tuna

this is the top of the after the big loop and brought back to the ship

this is the boat used to haul the net around

coming back to land

Bob and i got to go up in the helicopter twice the net you see in the foreground looped around

The big boat bringing the net around to the ship to close the hole and the speed boats swirling around to keep the fish from coming out

coming for a  landing

This crane is how they get the net back in

There is 11 guys stacking the net as it comes in

A Marlin got trapped in the net

Also 6 tuna ( this was only a trial set ) not intended to catch a big bunch of tuna

40 to 50 LBS

Adams dog

Filleting the tuna

The cook made some fresh tuna cevecy

Heading home from to days adventure

The home coming crowd

Roger and Susie's Travels Today a real adventure @ 7:00 am Adam the hotel owner Also tuna boat Captain came by and invited Myself and Bob Brown to spend a day with him on the tuna boat to see it in operation of doing a set to catch tuna fish (a test set ). So a opportunity of a life time so of course we excepted they picked us at up 8:00 PM  by panga and headed out to ship sitting 5 miles of shore the picture will explain the day. Way to many pictures to show but these will give you the idea