wow! I kept waiting for someone to take a hook in the face....

No need to feel bad about missing a day at the gym after that workout.

Back in the 40's and 50's my dad did that on his commercial boat.

I was to young then to go with him. They used bamboo rods. When the
Tuna were running bigger they used 2 rods and one lure and flipped
them the same was as the video.

fp

man i wasted a bunch of money on reels

+1

Great video Doc, reminds me of of a BBC Video I saw a while back that was pretty amazing to me.

old school right there. fishing tuna from the racks was the way it was done

I remember seeing b and w videos on tv when I was a kid in the 50's. The fishermen would stand on catwalks close to the water and two pole huge tuna

YUP... gives a whole new meaning to "doubles" and "triples"....

Keep his head UP boys!

Check out the "four-ples" starting at about 6:00.

SON!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xsybqHEdKA

Man you would have arms like Popeye after a couple months of that! I've also heard from an oldtimer that popcorn works as chum but never tried it.

popcorn works... so does cheap cat food from the $ store...

Well that would save a few anchovies, of course I would probaly eat the whole 20# pound bag before we got to the grounds.

Wow!!

Definitely a young man's game.
All those gents would be in their 90s if alive.

My Uncle Oren (in his 80s), who took me fishing a bunch as a kid, told me stories of this. He went on a charter that lashed clients to the rail and put them on the catwalk. Must have told me the story 10 times.

Better than "Good Stuff," Doc.

my hands and arms cramped up and my back and neck are killing me just from watching that vid. have to wounder how many of those big cows were dropped in the middle of those 4 man teams and just kicked the crap out of those guys.

Never seen automated flippin' for tuna before. Check this out.... pretty ingenious! Plus lots the manual version where some of the double handers shoulda been triples.

Tenkara

I was in Christmas Island last week. While there I mentioned this type of tuna fish into my guide, and he said it is still practiced by a few boats in the South Pacific

Dudes need helmets

They still do it off the Orygun coast.

Snapped this pic as these guys trolled up on us while we worked iron. They apologized for coming so close... we thanked them for bringing a $hitton of fish in behind them. They were throwing a buttload of bait over, and when the guys on the back yelled "how many we got?" the Captain barked "Not enough!"