The 884-pound bluefin tuna that David Esslinger and crew caught last year has been confirmed as a Texas state record this week. In April 2025, Esslinger and a group of buddies headed offshore from ...

Dock Totals 8/31 – 9/6: 4285 anglers aboard 210 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings over the past week caught 28 barracuda, 1 black sea bass (released), 1047 bluefin tuna (to 160 pounds) ...

Texas Parks and Wildlife state David L. Essingler set a new state record for his 2025 catch of an 884-pound Atlantic Blue Fin Tuna. Essingler caught the fish by rod and reel on April 10, 2025, on the ...

The word “conservation” can mean different things to different people and can be a dangerous term to bandy about. Take the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas for instance.

PORT ARTHUR, Texas — Nearly a year after David L. Esslinger hauled an 884-pound Atlantic bluefin tuna out of the Gulf of Mexico, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department officially confirmed the catch as a ...

Aoife McGettigan was out with Killybegs Fishing Trips when she battled and brought alongside what the crew described as the biggest tuna ever caught on their boat. The crew celebrated the moment on ...

Some fishy business involving bluefin tuna caught off Oma, Aomori Prefecture--the kind that famously reels in massive sums at ...

Every fisherman wants a story, and Hunter Hicks now has one that sounds completely made up. Except it’s all on video. The North Carolina angler was fishing solo off the Outer Banks when he hooked a ...

Despite a recent abundance of bluefin tuna near the shore, fishermen could not catch them as the previous quota had been met. An increase to the bluefin tuna quota was agreed to by the International ...

If you were hoping to catch and keep a bluefin tuna off the coast of Long Island this summer, you’re out of luck. A new federal shutdown of the bluefin tuna fishery for recreational and charter ...