Tuna, tuna, tuna.

If you can get out there, the yellowfin

and the blackfin tuna are waiting to fill

your fish box.

The bays are yielding nice, big redfish,

just about everywhere: the piers, the flats

and the jetties.

MaryAnn Heimann at Of

Adventures repo rted off sho re c atc hes

of kingfish, vermilion snapper, Atlantic

sharpnosed shark and the release of a 40-

pound amberjack and three big sandbar

shark. Bayfishing, she said, has been all

about the redfish. One angler released a

46-inch red.

Bev Fintel at t he Horace Caldwell

Pier said pier anglers are reeling in the

redfish, blacktip and bonnethead s hark

along with a few stingrays.

Chris Wallace at Dolphin Dock said

the long-range tuna trip brought in around

40 yellowfin tuna, “tons of blackfin tuna,”

and som e bull dor ado from about 137 miles offshore. Shorter trips caught king-

fish, vermilion snapper and sharks.

Tom Cr eighton at Woody’s Sports

Cen ter reporte d that b ay g uide s are

catching limits of redfish and some black

drum. Jetty anglers, too, are bringing in

plenty of redfish.

Anglers aboard a 56-hour trip to

the Boudreaux rig out of Fisherman’s

Wha rf brou g ht b ack y el l owf in t una ,

plenty of blackfin tuna, dorado and another

state-record escolar (see photo this

page), according to John McNatt. Shorter

trips offshore brought in some ling, vermilion

snapper and lane snapper.

Dan Hurd at Deep Sea Headquarters

said 36-hour tuna trips caught yellowfin

tuna in the 90 to 100-pound range, along

with plenty of blackfin tuna. Twelve-hour

trips caught kingfish, vermilion snapper

and Atlantic sharpnosed shark. The bay

guides have been landing redfish, black

drum, gafftop, flounder and a few trout.