“That’s one of those things you think about your whole life that may never happen,” senior deck hand Grady Gunn said of their catch. “It may never happen again, but it happened this time.' Then... they had to figure out how to get the fish on the boat. 🥵
Deck hands, from left, Jake Rezner, Grady Gunn and Jacob Harris, celebrate hauling in the huge bluefin onto the Intimidator's deck. A group of anglers from Georgia took turns reeling in the 600-pound-plus tuna. A week before catching the bluefin, Intimidator landed a big blue marlin.Johnny Greene has been a captain on charter boats in the Gulf of Mexico for the past 33 years and has landed his share of the Gulf’s bounty.
Greene said everything must go right, and the right group of anglers and deck hands have to be on the boat to actually land one of the massive bluefins. “When you have to pull a 600-pound animal up, it’s not the easiest thing to do,” he said. “It requires communication between the angler, everybody in the cockpit and the wheelhouse. It’s basically a momentum game. You’ve got to get the fish coming up, and you have to keep him coming. If you take a break, the fish is going to start sinking again. It’s tricky.”
Deck hands, from left, Jake Rezner, Grady Gunn and Jacob Harris, celebrate hauling in the huge bluefin onto the Intimidator's deck. A group of anglers from Georgia took turns reeling in the 600-pound-plus tuna. A week before catching the bluefin, Intimidator landed a big blue marlin. “Everybody in Alabama who has ever been stuck in the mud knows how to operate a come-along,” Greene said. “I think everybody should have a come-along and a ratchet strap. You never know when you need to get a fish or a person over the side of the boat.
“That allowance is just for a situation like we had,” Greene said. “The fish was dead, and it was a way not to waste that fish.” Greene loves to take his clients on the three-day trips far into the Gulf because of the amount of time available for fishing and the variety of fish anglers can catch.
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