Yellowfin tuna facts:
The latin name for Yellowfin tuna is Thunnus albacares.
Yellowfin tuna size: can grow up to 200 Kilograms or 450 pounds
Yellowfin tuna length: can grow up to 240 cm or 7.5 feet
Yellowfin tuna description: football shaped with dark blue or black colours above and yellow sides with fins tinged in yellow and finlets yellow. Vibrant colours when wet, fading after death and drying out.
Yellowfin tuna fishing areas: Yellowfin occur in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Yellowfin Tuna are schooling fish and are the most important commercially of all the tunas. Tuna are pelagics fish that live in the open ocean.
Catching Yellowfin tuna: There are a number of ways to catch yellowfin.
- Chum the fish to the boat and hope to get one to eat a piece of chum drifted back with a hook in it
- Troll natural and artificial baits behind a boat.
- Drop diamond jigs down deep and jigging them up and down with long sweeps of the rod can often produce when the fish are deep and only surface briefly before retreating to the cooler deeper waters
- The most exciting method of catching tuna is casting surface popper baits
- The most efficient method is slow trolling live hardtails behind the boat