405 lb Yellowfin Tuna approved as new world record
Catch of 405-pound tuna accepted as new globe file
IGFA approves globe-report yellowfin tuna
Catch of 405-pound tuna accredited as new planet document
Mike Livingston, who very last November caught a 405-pound yellowfin tuna aboard the San Diego-primarily based Vagabond, is officially the all-tackle world record holder.
The Worldwide Game Fish Assn. has posted Livingston’s catch on its on the internet information web page, crediting the angler for a document that had been held by Curt Wiesenhutter for 33 many years. Wiesenhutter’s fish, caught off Mexico’s Revillagigedo Islands, weighed 388 pounds, 12 ounces.
Livingston, who lives in Sunland, Calif., caught his behemoth after a three-hour fight very last Nov. 30 outside of Magdalena Bay, west of Baja California. The fish measured virtually 62 inches in girth and 86 inches from nose to tail.
Livingston, whose preceding big tuna weighed a hundred pounds, said he produced a rash although "worrying about how large this fish was going to be."
He was so worn out by the struggle that he quit fishing for the day and caught only one particular little tuna the remainder of the trip.
A crowd had gathered to meet the Vagabond and watch the weigh-in at at Stage Loma Sportfishing. "When the scale hit that range it was like the Tremendous Bowl here," explained Livingston, 63, a retired college administrator.
In 1992, a 399-pound yellowfin was landed aboard the Polaris Supreme, but because a lot more than one angler handled the rod the catch did not qualify as an IGFA record.
From Level Loma and Indicator on San Diego
IGFA approves planet-document yellowfin tuna
By Ed Zieralski
Monday, March 7, 2011 at eleven:thirteen a.m.
Mike Livingston stands beside the 405.2-pound yellowfin tuna he caught aboard captain Mike Lackey’s Vagabond.
Although official announcement isnt anticipated till later this week, the Worldwide Sport Fish Association has accredited Mike Livingstons 405.two-pound yellowfin tuna caught on the sport boat Vagabond skippered by Captain Mike Lackey out of Position Loma Activity Fishing in San Diego as an all-tackle globe report.
The announcement will be manufactured at Lengthy Seaside when the IGFA will honor new IGFA Chairman of the Board Paxson Offield, the very first Californian to be named to that place with the Florida-primarily based conservation organization. But Michael Farrior, an IGFA board member and trustee, said he spoke to IGFA headquarters these days and that the all-tackle tuna record has been accredited. It breaks the present all-tackle mark set by Curt Wisenhutter on the Royal Polaris (then owned by Bill Poole) on April 1, 1977.
Its official, Farrior mentioned. There had been so numerous testimonials taken, and everything went fantastic. There will be an official presentation this week in Extended Seaside.
The timing of the announcement couldnt be much better. Lackey is picking up the daily life-sized mount of the enormous tuna today at Lyons & OHaver Taxidermy in La Mesa. Lance Lyons, a globe-course artist who won the Breakthrough Planet Championship for fish carving and painting in 2001, labored overtime to get the mount carried out. Lackey had delivers from other taxidermists who wished to do the mount for free, but Lackey paid for the mount at Lyons & OHaver. Lackey strategies to screen the mount at his expanded booth at the Fred Hall Fishing Tackle, Boat and Journey Show at the Lengthy Seashore Convention Center, starting up Wednesday.
This is wonderful, Lackey explained. Weve been doing work hard to get the things we want for the booth prepared. Were finding up the mount nowadays and were going to set up the booth tomorrow. We assume its heading to glimpse really cool. We cant wait.
The angler, Livingston, who lives in Sunland, caught the document yellowfin tuna Nov. 30 final year although fishing aboard the Vagabond.
Thats excellent news, Livingston said. Im just thrilled. I kind of knew something was going on when Mike (Lackey) and I had been invited to the IGFAs cocktail social gathering on Friday in Extended Seashore.
Livingston felt excellent publicity from the catch, specifically from the East Coast-based mostly Marlin Journal, could have helped make a far better situation for his catch. In past a long time, tuna heavier than Wisenhutters have been rejected by the IGFA for several causes these kinds of as a deckhand assisted in the catch or an angler rested the rod on the boats railing. But this time, the IGFA found no cause to not approve the file coveted by long-range anglers and skippers.
Lackey explained hes truly hunting ahead to sharing the mount with all who go to the Fred Hall Display in Extended Seaside. It runs Wednesday by means of Sunday. Lackey was given an extra, adjoining booth at the indicate in order to fit the giant, lifestyle-sized tuna in the room. It is 54 inches across from the suggestion of one particular sickle to the other, and its 94 inches long. Lackey and Livingston will do seminars at the Lengthy Beach Fred Hall Present and talk about the historic day Livingston caught the document tuna. Lackey also ideas on exhibiting the tuna at the Del Mar Fred Hall Display from March 24-28, and at Day at the Docks on April 17.
Theyre heading to actually happy they went with us, Lance Lyons stated. I spent a good deal of time on the detail on this mount. We devote four to 5 times much more time on our painting right here than most taxidermists. We never want the quality of our operate to go in the improper route. Were usually shifting forward and invest the additional time to make sure we dont go the other way.
From IGFA Site http://www.igfa.org/records/Fish-Rec…a%2c+yellowfin
Tuna, yellowfin
(Thunnus albacares)
Fat Catch Location Catch Date Angler
176.35 kg (388 lb twelve oz) Isla San Benedicto, Revillagigedo Islands , Mexico 4/1/1977 Curt Wiesenhutter
183.7 kg (405 lb oz) Magdalena Bay, Baja Sur, , Mexico 11/thirty/2010 Mike Livingston
Photo’s Courtesy of the record keeping boat Vagabond Sportfishing http://vagabondsportfishing.com/
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