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Portland Barrels


Fish of a lifetime! Reel Time decky, Aleks Matic with Alex Saisanas & Marco Quadara landed this 'barrel' 131kg Southern Bluefin Tuna out of Portland on Wednesday!

The boys had bagged on school fish and decided to go out deeper in search of a bigger model. Alex (aka Sassy) grabbed the rod when it took off but handed it over to Aleks thinking it was a small tuna when it lacked fight. Aleks soon realised it was getting harder to bring in and then all of a sudden the rod exploded and the fish took 700m of line on a 50 Tiagra. It was clear they were in for a big afternoon! After a couple of hours, the fish died on the bottom and the boys who were completely exhausted after driving from Melbourne at 4am that morning, lifted the beast into the boat with no gimble or harness! Their patience and focus paid off, eventually winning the battle and rewarded with a 131kg 'Barrel' Tuna. Well done guys, amazing stuff!!

It even made TEN News top stories on Friday night! 



Reel Time skipper, Matt Cini & decky, Matty Harris

Weight confirmed at 91kg! Well done to Reel Time customer, Brad & crew who did an awesome job reeling this beast in, in just 45 mins!! #Tiagra30 #UVxrap #JobuHook #HappyDays

 Footage of the 91kg Bluefin Tuna!!


Updated June 21st, 2013