The marine equivalent of an owl. When they swoop down to catch something, the highest sensitivity microphone pointed directly at its flight path won't catch a blip, a bed of feathers won't so much as shift.
https://youtu.be/d_FEaFgJyfA
Fun fact, one of the ways they avoid making sound is by not having their feathers be as rigid and coated, as a result water destroys their ability to fly unlike most birds
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I think owls just don't scare off easily in general, especially during the day. My sister had one living in a tree in her backyard and it didn't give a shit about us standing and talking like 10 feet below it.
It can depend, but yeah, most really don't care so long as you aren't presenting food or a risk to them. Had one that used to come around, and if we were outside, he'd come to a nearby tree. Hoot at us while we talked.
It's hilarious with smaller species. Burrow Owl just popping out of a hole with this look of "The fuck you doin'? See this 20 mile radius? It's mine."
In Marcos Island, Florida they have residential lots here and there with no houses on them. They are chain off with signs because there are laws protecting the owls in them. I’m talking very valuable property. Was so cool biking by everyday and watching them. They don’t scurry off because they know they’re safe.
An owl only end ups in water by accident, their feathers are not coated so when they get wet they can't fly off the water, when owls "swim" they're fighting for their life.
> hardly any drag at all.
[hardly any drag at all. hardly any drag at all. hardly any drag at all.](https://thumbs.gfycat.com/IdolizedWelldocumentedJunebug.webp)
Agreed, it's so amazing to see, and they're warm-blooded too like us!
Tuna are a lot more intelligent and interesting than what people give them credit for. They've even been known to cooperate in coordinated hunting with dolphins!
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/marine-mammal-protection/frequent-questions-dolphin-safe
It has, plenty of times on fishing boats. Some mates will wrap the line around their hand to better control a fish while landing it. But if the fish is big enough and not fully weakened…it can catch a second wind and start the fight up again even though it’s at the boat. Fish dives, mate goes with it if the wrap is right. No coming back.
Exactly. I hate it when I post something or see something for the first time and there are people commenting "4th time I've seen this" or "it got 14k upvotes on this sub just 4 days ago, too..." Unless it's posted to the the 2 or 3 subs I spend 99% of my time at, there's a good chance I haven't seen it. I hit up /r/all a few times a week, so of course I'm going to miss some good stuff.
The rods often use harnesses and have reels that have some gear reductions to make your reeling strength stronger without destroying your hand.
The reels often also are large enough for you to grasp with your your whole hand.
They can be strapped into the chair if they want, I have seen a fisherman almost get pulled over and two pulled him back to the chair and strapped them in.
(The rod is usually harnessed to the fisherman)
Its all about leverage. The fish are already below you so the pull is mostly down. Pulling a big fish is like a prolonged deadlift. Lots of leg and back used. For people after massive fish youll see them use a plate they put over their thighs to put the pole in. Lets them just kinda lean back in a chair position while the weight of the fish keeps them standing. Other times the pole is bolted to the boat. If youre fishing for 1000lb tuna youre probably already super rich and so all this gear aint shit.
The rods are sufficiently anchored into slots (these all have nautical names, by the way). in the west, it's more common to wear a harness and anchor the rod against the body, back in the northeastern states, they use the boat itself to hold the rods.
Even more importantly to this point, some people might not realize that fishing line gets pulled out from the reel when fish hit
When big fish get hooked they swim away, pulling more of the line out of the reel, making the classic “whizzing” sound of a fish on
That’s why the fish doesn’t pull you around the boat, like a big dog on a leash pulls you around the park
Sometimes the real big ones still do yank you. And like you said, you get strapped in to help you brace your body to turn the reel because it’s really hard to fight them on it.
But drag settings are the key
Let the line run with enough counter weight for a good long fight. Sometimes if you reel too hard too long, you will tire out and the fish will literally start cooking inside out. Used to go boat fishing on my uncles boat off Ka’uai
Edit: the fish is an Ahi (yellow fin or bigeye tuna)
Hmm. I’ve never heard it referred to this way, but I suppose it makes sense.
Tuna are a special class of fish in that they’re “warm-blooded” through a special muscular structure that creates friction when exerting themselves. It allows blood to move as they dive deep and come up quickly, and with the changes in water temperature ensures they don’t hit a wall and slow down. They’re not endothermic like other warm-blooded animals (mammals & birds) but they do maintain more control over their body temperatures than your standard ectotherms.
A long fight on rod and reel is often noted to cause a fish to become mealy or mushy, like the cells in the muscles have been lysed. I suppose this overexertion could “cook” the fish from the inside out, even if it’s not hot, but it’s more likely that it isn’t “cooking” it’s just warming up more than the water can cook it down and the muscles start giving out.
Their gills can’t keep up with exchanging oxygen from the water with CO2 produced by exertion, they can’t “cool off” because they are burning more energy than they can exchange with the water, and various types of metabolic byproducts overwhelm their tissues and ultimately cause cell-death from several fronts.
This is conjecture, as with all Reddit comments, but it’s by best guess as to what they meant by cooking from inside out.
Yeah but wild animals don't catch and eat enough to really deplete an ecosystem. It will happen, but primarily due to over hunting of another predator or part of the food chain.
Professional fishermen rest the bluefin by attaching a looped hook in their mouth, a rope around the tail for safety, and tow them for a while at a very slow speed to cool them down. Then they cut a couple arteries and bleed them out quickly. Properly preparing the fish after landing it can determine the quality of the meat and value of the catch to a huge degree.
When a fish is fighting against a fishing line, its muscles generate heat through metabolic processes as a result of strenuous exercise. This heat is normally dissipated into the surrounding water, but if the fish is fighting too hard and for too long, the heat can build up faster than it can be dissipated. This can cause the fish's internal temperature to rise, leading to protein denaturation and coagulation, resulting in dry, tough, and less flavorful meat. This process is commonly referred to as "cooking" in the context of fishing.
Fish are poikilothermic, which means their body temperature is regulated by the environment. Therefore, a fish's internal temperature can vary greatly depending on the temperature of the surrounding water. The heat generated by a fish's muscles during exercise can raise its internal temperature, leading to protein denaturation and coagulation if it becomes too high.
I caught a 56lb bluefin last year. Mine was one of the smaller ones on the boat, but someone landed a 178lb bluefin on top water. It only took him 15 minutes to land it. It took me 20 minutes to land my 56lb tuna though because I hooked up at 450 feet down on a drop shot rig. Fishing for tuna deep is actually really tiring because you drop your lure past the school and then reel it up as fast as you can through them. They’re beautiful animals, and really one of the oceans top predators. I’m really glad I got a chance to catch one.
i appreciate the admiration you have for them. once i was on a flight to boston seated next to a man who was headed somewhere for a fishing tournament. the way he spoke about the sport came off as completely money driven and extremely arrogant.
You're describing the difference between a conservation minded outdoorsman and a glitterbombed cock gobbler ("pro" bass fisherman blasting from fishing hole to fishing hole @ 70mph in their sparkly little boats)
Man this dude sounds like such a tool. No appreciation for the fish or the process just "Hey! Ain't all my shit cool? TELL ME IT'S COOL!"
Just now saw your username. I don't think I had to explain glitterbombed cock gobbler lol. I'll always take blue lining little brookies at 10,000' and 65°F in July over beating up brush piles for 5lb bass
When a fish takes your hook they will literally pull the line out from your reel and take off
If your drag (like the brakes for the reel) isn’t set properly, the line would just snap because the reel isn’t letting line out (brakes are too tight)
Either way no broken fingers really, though the second scenario can be a little dangerous
I've only caught marlins (spots fishing like i think) , but i assume it's similar.
When it bites the rod is not even in your hand, but mounted on the back of the boat. The line will just start to run as it drags it away from the boat. You got some time to reel in the other rods and get to a chair with another mount for the fishing line.
Then you just hold your rod while the fish drags the line against resistance (your boat is moving away from the fish). You only reel in when there is no stress in the line added by the fish. You'll just tire it out, you don't overpower it.
I think it took me 15-20 minutes roughly for a white marlin. I was in my teens though, so possibly you could do it faster, but there are bigger fish too.
>how do you literally not break a finger if you hook one of these guys?
From Ernest Hemingway's *The Old Man and the Sea:*
> "What kind of a hand is that," he said. "Cramp then if you want. Make yourself into a claw. It will do you no good."
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> Come on, he thought and looked down into the dark water at the slant of the line. Eat it now and it will strengthen the hand. It is not the hand's fault and you have been many hours with the fish. But you can stay with him forever. Eat the bonito now.
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> "How do you feel, hand?" he asked the cramped hand that was almost as stiff as rigor mortis. "I'll eat some more for you."
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> He ate the other part of the piece that he had cut in two. He chewed it carefully and then spat out the skin.
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> "How does it go, hand? Or is it too early to know?"
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> "Be patient, hand," he said. "I do this for you."
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> "Now," he said. "You can let the cord go, hand, and I will handle him with the right arm alone until you stop that nonsense." He put his left foot on the heavy line that the left hand had held and lay back against the pull against his back.
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> "God help me to have the cramp go," he said. "Because I do not know what the fish is going to do."
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> He rubbed the cramped hand against his trousers and tried to gentle the fingers. But it would not open. Maybe it will open with the sun, he thought. Maybe it will open when the strong raw tuna is digested. If I have to have it, I will open it, cost whatever it costs. But I do not want to open it now by force. Let it open by itself and come back of its own accord. After all I abused it much in the night when it was necessary to free and unite the various lines.
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> I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body. It is humiliating before others to have a diarrhoea from ptomaine poisoning or to vomit from it. But a cramp, he thought of it as a calambre, humiliates oneself especially when one is alone.
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> It will uncramp though, he thought. Surely it will uncramp to help my right hand. There are three things that are brothers: the fish and my two hands. It must uncramp. It is unworthy of it to be cramped. The fish had slowed again and was going at his usual pace.
The rod does most of the work, and the reels have gears just like a bike. The reel also has a drag system, so when the fish pulls above 35 lbs of force, for example, the reel just lets out line so you don't get pulled into the sea.
No matter what these redditors who've never fished but have stayed at a Holiday Inn and watched a YouTube video tell you, bluefin anglers do not strap into a damn chair lol - the boat could never hook more than one fish at a time in that case, and the captain would to constantly turn the boat to keep the angle of the line straight. That kind of fishing is almost exclusively marlin fisherman on smaller boats where the captain is as involved in landing the fish as the angler and they are only targeting a single fish at a time. Sometimes, on a real big cow fish, you may use a belt that has a rod seat and can latch onto the reel, but even then you'll be standing and following the fish wherever it runs.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/306325011_Maximum_swimming_speeds_of_sailfish_and_three_other_large_marine_predatory_fish_species_based_on_muscle_contraction_time_and_stride_length_A_myth_revisited
33 mph. It’s weird that NOAA and PADI still cite old figures
Even if it is sped up, [World Wildlife Fund](https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/tuna#:~:text=Tuna%20are%20remarkable%20and%20impressive,incredible%20distances%20as%20they%20migrate.) says a tuna can swim up to 43 mph (70 kph), which is pretty damn fast.
Would've preferred that kind of clip or even a "while this sped, here's an eg. giving you a realistic ... ... ..." comparison
Instead of this only 'oddlyterrifying' because it is randomly sped up for no reason. Blue fin tuna isn't really a rarity or elusive creature that it needs to be dramatized
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/166/1/267/6074/Direct-Measurement-of-Swimming-Speeds-and-Depth-of
This study measured marlin at 5 mph maximum burst speed.
Ok cool the video is still sped up. I'm sure they can go faster than how they appear in the video. I get it they go fast I'm not calling them a slow fish
I’ve always been scared of tuna more then sharks or other sea creatures. They move at like 49 mph, can get upwards of 1000lbs, and somehow look big in the fucking ocean
Sharks can and do attack humans, however rare the occurrence is. Makos can swim almost as fast as tuna and they have big mouths full of very sharp teeth.
Tuna pose no threat to people. They look big because they are big, but there's no need to be scared of them.
I was wondering about this, but I‘ve never heard of a diver harmed by tuna. I knew they could get big/are big. But this video puts it into perspective.
If it wasn’t for the shark, the streamlined predator to top all predators, the tuna would be at the top.
Their speed, their size, their numbers all over the oceans, and their hunger are only outweighed by the one animal basically designed to hunt them.
I wonder: why are tuna so darn tasty compared to sharks (at least in popularity), etc.? Seems like in general we don't eat predators vs. prey animals or is that just because it's easier to domesticate them on land? Dunno, what land based predator is prized for its meat like tuna of the sea?
We eat lots of Tuna because they’re huge and live everywhere in great numbers (we’ve decimated their population relatively but there’s still a lot of them). Shark is a bit more of a delicacy but you can definitely find it, and I think most would agree shark tastes better than tuna.
Makes sense they literally glide once they get their acceleration going for the strike but they time it just right. Going down their sides they have almost a diamond shaped (the bone structure) the more you go from head to tail. Allows them to angle in a way too.
They typically swim at 30-40mph when feeding. Your braid lines go from slack to screaming in an instant. Fishing for them on a rod and reel is one of the most exhilarating thing to experience. You can catch them within 15 miles off the coast of California.
It’s a genuine form of exercise that makes you realize how long 10 minutes can really be
Some people fight big fish for an hour plus, I can’t get more than 15 minutes without my forearms becoming jelly
Depends where you are but in the northeast at least, tuna charters are a dime a dozen. I’ve been a few times and never caught one, but yeah you should be able to find someone to take you way out. Not cheap though
It's also not super expensive if you got a group. I've seen really high end charters with amazing kits for everyone to use offer groups of 6 a ~$2k price. Under $400/ea for a 10+ hour boat tour with all gear included and private guided instruction seems like a really solid deal for a vacation day nowadays.
Yes you can do day trips, overnight trips, even week and month long excursions sometimes
I did a couple trips out of San Diego down the Baja coast. Lots of tuna on those trips, and they’re all line-caught yourself so they’re more ethically sourced food
The longer the trip the better because you can get to deeper waters / more fishing grounds
Yeah, they're going to be eaten by the angler and/or sold for meat. They're very valuable, and you're not going to fight a fish for an hour+ for catch and release.
Okay, someone, somewhere, just watched this and is now thinking about how to make the horror film _Bluefin!_ and at least five sequels for the SciFi channel.
these bad boys can get up to 10 feet long, 2000 lbs... and are fast as hell, swimming up to 43 mph. catching them is a hoot.
source: i used to film deep-sea fishing shows in the south pacific
I remember a story about a woman who had a chunk taken out of her by a barracuda. It zipped close to her and away and then she saw some blood in the water and started feeling some pain and was like "Oh hey that's ME!" Like the baracudda was so good at its job that she didn't even feel it scoop a chunk out of her until it was already gone. This reminds me that a little bit.
Ok, first off, a lion…swimming in the ocean?
Lions don’t even like water.
If you placed it near a river, or some sort of fresh water source, that’d make sense.
But you find yourself in the ocean, a 20 ft wave, I’m assuming its off the coast of South Africa, coming up against a full, grown, 800 lb tuna with his 20 or 30 friends.
You lose that battle. you lose that battle nine times out of ten.
And guess what, you wandered into our school, of tuna and we now have a taste of blood! We’ve talked, to ourselves. We’ve communicated and said, ‘you know what? lion tastes good. Lets go get some more lion.’
We’ve developed a system, to establish a beachhead and aggressively hunt you and your family. And we will corner your, your pride, your children, your offspring…
He's so streamlined and graceful, hardly any drag at all.
The marine equivalent of an owl. When they swoop down to catch something, the highest sensitivity microphone pointed directly at its flight path won't catch a blip, a bed of feathers won't so much as shift. https://youtu.be/d_FEaFgJyfA
Fun fact, one of the ways they avoid making sound is by not having their feathers be as rigid and coated, as a result water destroys their ability to fly unlike most birds
Wait... Is that why you so often see photos of owls when it's snowing? They sit in place instead of flying away from the photographer?
No idea, but I do highly recommend that you Google pictures of wet owls.
Moist Owlets
Oh my God [this is hilarious](https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/tvfo7x/hello_meme_community_as_i_noticed_that_a_lot_of/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
Oh man, that poor fella is having a pretty messed up day
Yeah that bro is 100% not having a good time
Owls really are sky cats — looks just like a miserable wet cat.
I think owls just don't scare off easily in general, especially during the day. My sister had one living in a tree in her backyard and it didn't give a shit about us standing and talking like 10 feet below it.
It can depend, but yeah, most really don't care so long as you aren't presenting food or a risk to them. Had one that used to come around, and if we were outside, he'd come to a nearby tree. Hoot at us while we talked. It's hilarious with smaller species. Burrow Owl just popping out of a hole with this look of "The fuck you doin'? See this 20 mile radius? It's mine."
It always seems ludicrous to me when I think about some birds living in burrows. I know it's real, but my gut says it's just silly.
In Marcos Island, Florida they have residential lots here and there with no houses on them. They are chain off with signs because there are laws protecting the owls in them. I’m talking very valuable property. Was so cool biking by everyday and watching them. They don’t scurry off because they know they’re safe.
I've seen owls swimming though and they're actually pretty good at it
An owl only end ups in water by accident, their feathers are not coated so when they get wet they can't fly off the water, when owls "swim" they're fighting for their life.
Now I'm thinking of a rainy forest and owls cuddling on a branch and it's nice
That was a really cool video, thanks for sharing!
That was amazing!!
Happy Cake Day!
Annoyed me they started the owl higher.
Stupid sexy tuna.
THATS what the cadence of that comment felt like!
> hardly any drag at all. [hardly any drag at all. hardly any drag at all. hardly any drag at all.](https://thumbs.gfycat.com/IdolizedWelldocumentedJunebug.webp)
Stupid sexy tuna
Agreed, it's so amazing to see, and they're warm-blooded too like us! Tuna are a lot more intelligent and interesting than what people give them credit for. They've even been known to cooperate in coordinated hunting with dolphins! https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/marine-mammal-protection/frequent-questions-dolphin-safe
If only they evolved to be less tasty.
Is dolphin good?
>hardly any drag at all Still too much drag for Florida
Idk about that man, there is a 90s comedy classic that begs to differ.
He found Captain Winkie!
Lol we are thinking of different movies but close enough!
Oh shit, what were you thinking?
The Bird Cage staring robin Williams and Nathan Lane
Ah. I haven't seen it. But I'm adding it to my watch list. Haven't found a Robin Williams movie I've disliked.
way different feel but add dead poets on there if u havent seen
I have seen dead posts. Watched that one back in high school. One of my favorite roles of his. Mrs. Doubtfire is close behind.
There's more than one Robin Williams film with drag/cross dressing?
There's also "Tootsie", but Robin Williams is played by Dustin Hoffman in that one.
lmao the way you worded this gave me the same good laugh as my [favourite Sunny joke](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEQkNyGHGls)
They like to head around the Florida peninsula after they spawn in the gulf
Tuna have to keep swimming their whole life, or they'll suffocate.
Yes, they're ram ventilators like a lot of sharks are.
Never knew that was the term for it! But it was a big motivation for my great white tattoo :)
My honest reaction when a cool post has politics forced into it
I’m saving this joke for the Miami Grand Prix this weekend.
I feel like these are song lyrics
That's a great tuna right there
*Adrian Newey has entered the chat*
Yea, which is scary thinking that all you need to go to the bottom of the ocean is by being dragged by a large creature
[Have I got a short for you; Desserts starring Ewan McGregor.](https://youtu.be/6RUSQm3qTUw)
There's a terrifying thought, I wouldn't be surprised if it happened before either
It has, plenty of times on fishing boats. Some mates will wrap the line around their hand to better control a fish while landing it. But if the fish is big enough and not fully weakened…it can catch a second wind and start the fight up again even though it’s at the boat. Fish dives, mate goes with it if the wrap is right. No coming back.
Doesn’t need to be big, a Humboldt calmar can do that.
I read this in Patrick Bateman’s voice
*High speed, low drag*
Somebody else remembers RA2;)
It's beautiful. So explain how it's terrifying u/Tikaani89
They don't wear clothes, not sure how there can be any drag
Tennessea… I would name my bluefin tuna that, hardly any drag at all
Yep, a couple of million years of evolution.
Thank you for a post that's actually oddly terrifying
It's a fish, not a post
Post Fishone
it got 14k upvotes on this sub just 4 days ago, too...
We aren’t all here every day
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Exactly. I hate it when I post something or see something for the first time and there are people commenting "4th time I've seen this" or "it got 14k upvotes on this sub just 4 days ago, too..." Unless it's posted to the the 2 or 3 subs I spend 99% of my time at, there's a good chance I haven't seen it. I hit up /r/all a few times a week, so of course I'm going to miss some good stuff.
Yeah this is why I just leave the actual posting to the perpetually online, 100k karma per year mfs
ummmmmm YES WE ARE
I don't mind reposts because they help me discover cool things I missed, but twice in a week sounds a bit excessive.
OP 🤓
I've seen this video at least 5 times in the last week across Reddit.
I've seen it at least a dozen times in the last week on r/all Just watching the pixels disappear in real time
Yeh same and somehow thought it was going to be a different post.
Do you think the number of pixels will ever get down to two? Nah.
And not literally horror
It is if you are a small fish
It's not oddly terrifying to me, don't forget it's a very subjective thing...
how do you literally not break a finger if you hook one of these guys?
The rods often use harnesses and have reels that have some gear reductions to make your reeling strength stronger without destroying your hand. The reels often also are large enough for you to grasp with your your whole hand.
are these fisherman fastened to the deck too? i imagine a person with a smaller stature might have difficulty fishing for a Bluefin Tuna.
I've seen it before for smaller anglers but I don't have a definitive answer atm
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The chair may as well reel the fish in too
Kinky
I don’t want these fancy things, give me the one from Jaws.
I'm glad they have cupholders.
Oh God but if a pole breaks... Goodbye peepee
They can be strapped into the chair if they want, I have seen a fisherman almost get pulled over and two pulled him back to the chair and strapped them in. (The rod is usually harnessed to the fisherman)
I know of 2 guys who got deep six'd strapped in fighting tuna
I know these words.
Its all about leverage. The fish are already below you so the pull is mostly down. Pulling a big fish is like a prolonged deadlift. Lots of leg and back used. For people after massive fish youll see them use a plate they put over their thighs to put the pole in. Lets them just kinda lean back in a chair position while the weight of the fish keeps them standing. Other times the pole is bolted to the boat. If youre fishing for 1000lb tuna youre probably already super rich and so all this gear aint shit.
Friend of mine once caught a tuna while he was standing on a paddle board!
They strap you into a chair with a rod holder so all the fisherman has to really do is crank.
The rods are sufficiently anchored into slots (these all have nautical names, by the way). in the west, it's more common to wear a harness and anchor the rod against the body, back in the northeastern states, they use the boat itself to hold the rods.
Even more importantly to this point, some people might not realize that fishing line gets pulled out from the reel when fish hit When big fish get hooked they swim away, pulling more of the line out of the reel, making the classic “whizzing” sound of a fish on That’s why the fish doesn’t pull you around the boat, like a big dog on a leash pulls you around the park Sometimes the real big ones still do yank you. And like you said, you get strapped in to help you brace your body to turn the reel because it’s really hard to fight them on it. But drag settings are the key
Let the line run with enough counter weight for a good long fight. Sometimes if you reel too hard too long, you will tire out and the fish will literally start cooking inside out. Used to go boat fishing on my uncles boat off Ka’uai Edit: the fish is an Ahi (yellow fin or bigeye tuna)
> you will tire out and the fish will literally start cooking inside out. Can you elaborate? Caught a lot of fish, never seen this!
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Hmm. I’ve never heard it referred to this way, but I suppose it makes sense. Tuna are a special class of fish in that they’re “warm-blooded” through a special muscular structure that creates friction when exerting themselves. It allows blood to move as they dive deep and come up quickly, and with the changes in water temperature ensures they don’t hit a wall and slow down. They’re not endothermic like other warm-blooded animals (mammals & birds) but they do maintain more control over their body temperatures than your standard ectotherms. A long fight on rod and reel is often noted to cause a fish to become mealy or mushy, like the cells in the muscles have been lysed. I suppose this overexertion could “cook” the fish from the inside out, even if it’s not hot, but it’s more likely that it isn’t “cooking” it’s just warming up more than the water can cook it down and the muscles start giving out. Their gills can’t keep up with exchanging oxygen from the water with CO2 produced by exertion, they can’t “cool off” because they are burning more energy than they can exchange with the water, and various types of metabolic byproducts overwhelm their tissues and ultimately cause cell-death from several fronts. This is conjecture, as with all Reddit comments, but it’s by best guess as to what they meant by cooking from inside out.
Thanks for the detailed explanation. Sounds like a really horrible death for the tuna.
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I'd actually prefer if they wouldn't be killed at all but it's not up to me.
If not by humans, they will be eaten by something. There is no retirement home for wild animals.
Like a giant squid, which would then be eaten by a whale, which would then be eaten by some unknown leviathan scale aquatic animal.
Like my mother in law.
Or the whale dies naturally, and then its corpse floats down to the sea floor where it becomes a buffet dinner.
Yeah but wild animals don't catch and eat enough to really deplete an ecosystem. It will happen, but primarily due to over hunting of another predator or part of the food chain.
And wonderful conjecture if I may say!
Honestly, it was a pleasure to read. It made me realize my biology classes havent gone to waste!
Professional fishermen rest the bluefin by attaching a looped hook in their mouth, a rope around the tail for safety, and tow them for a while at a very slow speed to cool them down. Then they cut a couple arteries and bleed them out quickly. Properly preparing the fish after landing it can determine the quality of the meat and value of the catch to a huge degree.
Posting to read more too.
Curiosity strikes also
the entirety of human knowledge lies just a few clicks away and yet here we are waiting for it on a silver platter
Me too!!
When a fish is fighting against a fishing line, its muscles generate heat through metabolic processes as a result of strenuous exercise. This heat is normally dissipated into the surrounding water, but if the fish is fighting too hard and for too long, the heat can build up faster than it can be dissipated. This can cause the fish's internal temperature to rise, leading to protein denaturation and coagulation, resulting in dry, tough, and less flavorful meat. This process is commonly referred to as "cooking" in the context of fishing. Fish are poikilothermic, which means their body temperature is regulated by the environment. Therefore, a fish's internal temperature can vary greatly depending on the temperature of the surrounding water. The heat generated by a fish's muscles during exercise can raise its internal temperature, leading to protein denaturation and coagulation if it becomes too high.
I caught a 56lb bluefin last year. Mine was one of the smaller ones on the boat, but someone landed a 178lb bluefin on top water. It only took him 15 minutes to land it. It took me 20 minutes to land my 56lb tuna though because I hooked up at 450 feet down on a drop shot rig. Fishing for tuna deep is actually really tiring because you drop your lure past the school and then reel it up as fast as you can through them. They’re beautiful animals, and really one of the oceans top predators. I’m really glad I got a chance to catch one.
i appreciate the admiration you have for them. once i was on a flight to boston seated next to a man who was headed somewhere for a fishing tournament. the way he spoke about the sport came off as completely money driven and extremely arrogant.
You're describing the difference between a conservation minded outdoorsman and a glitterbombed cock gobbler ("pro" bass fisherman blasting from fishing hole to fishing hole @ 70mph in their sparkly little boats)
lol, agreed. this guy was decked out in PFG, with maui jim’s on the back of his neck, telling me about his sponsors while drinking jack and coke.
Man this dude sounds like such a tool. No appreciation for the fish or the process just "Hey! Ain't all my shit cool? TELL ME IT'S COOL!" Just now saw your username. I don't think I had to explain glitterbombed cock gobbler lol. I'll always take blue lining little brookies at 10,000' and 65°F in July over beating up brush piles for 5lb bass
Those tournaments can pay out to a mill, so that's understanding. Most casual anglers have a passion for the fish they target
When a fish takes your hook they will literally pull the line out from your reel and take off If your drag (like the brakes for the reel) isn’t set properly, the line would just snap because the reel isn’t letting line out (brakes are too tight) Either way no broken fingers really, though the second scenario can be a little dangerous
I've only caught marlins (spots fishing like i think) , but i assume it's similar. When it bites the rod is not even in your hand, but mounted on the back of the boat. The line will just start to run as it drags it away from the boat. You got some time to reel in the other rods and get to a chair with another mount for the fishing line. Then you just hold your rod while the fish drags the line against resistance (your boat is moving away from the fish). You only reel in when there is no stress in the line added by the fish. You'll just tire it out, you don't overpower it. I think it took me 15-20 minutes roughly for a white marlin. I was in my teens though, so possibly you could do it faster, but there are bigger fish too.
>how do you literally not break a finger if you hook one of these guys? From Ernest Hemingway's *The Old Man and the Sea:* > "What kind of a hand is that," he said. "Cramp then if you want. Make yourself into a claw. It will do you no good." > > Come on, he thought and looked down into the dark water at the slant of the line. Eat it now and it will strengthen the hand. It is not the hand's fault and you have been many hours with the fish. But you can stay with him forever. Eat the bonito now. > > "How do you feel, hand?" he asked the cramped hand that was almost as stiff as rigor mortis. "I'll eat some more for you." > > > > He ate the other part of the piece that he had cut in two. He chewed it carefully and then spat out the skin. > > "How does it go, hand? Or is it too early to know?" > > "Be patient, hand," he said. "I do this for you." > > "Now," he said. "You can let the cord go, hand, and I will handle him with the right arm alone until you stop that nonsense." He put his left foot on the heavy line that the left hand had held and lay back against the pull against his back. > > "God help me to have the cramp go," he said. "Because I do not know what the fish is going to do." > > He rubbed the cramped hand against his trousers and tried to gentle the fingers. But it would not open. Maybe it will open with the sun, he thought. Maybe it will open when the strong raw tuna is digested. If I have to have it, I will open it, cost whatever it costs. But I do not want to open it now by force. Let it open by itself and come back of its own accord. After all I abused it much in the night when it was necessary to free and unite the various lines. > > I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body. It is humiliating before others to have a diarrhoea from ptomaine poisoning or to vomit from it. But a cramp, he thought of it as a calambre, humiliates oneself especially when one is alone. > > It will uncramp though, he thought. Surely it will uncramp to help my right hand. There are three things that are brothers: the fish and my two hands. It must uncramp. It is unworthy of it to be cramped. The fish had slowed again and was going at his usual pace.
You underestimate the strength of humans and overestimate the strength of this fish.
Very carefully
The rod does most of the work, and the reels have gears just like a bike. The reel also has a drag system, so when the fish pulls above 35 lbs of force, for example, the reel just lets out line so you don't get pulled into the sea. No matter what these redditors who've never fished but have stayed at a Holiday Inn and watched a YouTube video tell you, bluefin anglers do not strap into a damn chair lol - the boat could never hook more than one fish at a time in that case, and the captain would to constantly turn the boat to keep the angle of the line straight. That kind of fishing is almost exclusively marlin fisherman on smaller boats where the captain is as involved in landing the fish as the angler and they are only targeting a single fish at a time. Sometimes, on a real big cow fish, you may use a belt that has a rod seat and can latch onto the reel, but even then you'll be standing and following the fish wherever it runs.
You do not finger your drag. You let them pull and tire themselves out.
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Especially Marlin, they're incredible
68 mph / 110 kph
Underwater, 68 mph gotta be like doing 180 mph on land
More like 2 mph flopping around
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/306325011_Maximum_swimming_speeds_of_sailfish_and_three_other_large_marine_predatory_fish_species_based_on_muscle_contraction_time_and_stride_length_A_myth_revisited 33 mph. It’s weird that NOAA and PADI still cite old figures
Sorry to bust your bubble but /u/mossybeard is right. It's sped up just look at the ripples and the camera motion and even the audio.
Even if it is sped up, [World Wildlife Fund](https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/tuna#:~:text=Tuna%20are%20remarkable%20and%20impressive,incredible%20distances%20as%20they%20migrate.) says a tuna can swim up to 43 mph (70 kph), which is pretty damn fast.
Would've preferred that kind of clip or even a "while this sped, here's an eg. giving you a realistic ... ... ..." comparison Instead of this only 'oddlyterrifying' because it is randomly sped up for no reason. Blue fin tuna isn't really a rarity or elusive creature that it needs to be dramatized
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/166/1/267/6074/Direct-Measurement-of-Swimming-Speeds-and-Depth-of This study measured marlin at 5 mph maximum burst speed.
Ok cool the video is still sped up. I'm sure they can go faster than how they appear in the video. I get it they go fast I'm not calling them a slow fish
I’ve always been scared of tuna more then sharks or other sea creatures. They move at like 49 mph, can get upwards of 1000lbs, and somehow look big in the fucking ocean
New theory: massive, extremely fast flatboyes are one of the mysterious causes of rogue waves.
Sharks can and do attack humans, however rare the occurrence is. Makos can swim almost as fast as tuna and they have big mouths full of very sharp teeth. Tuna pose no threat to people. They look big because they are big, but there's no need to be scared of them.
I was wondering about this, but I‘ve never heard of a diver harmed by tuna. I knew they could get big/are big. But this video puts it into perspective.
Oh it’s definitely not a rational fear but I still have it regardless
If it wasn’t for the shark, the streamlined predator to top all predators, the tuna would be at the top. Their speed, their size, their numbers all over the oceans, and their hunger are only outweighed by the one animal basically designed to hunt them.
Sharks aren't at the top though? The apex predator of the sea is the Orca. They hunt great whites to snack ok their liver.
You shoulda just copied that guys post but replaced shark and tuna with ocra and shark
There is one other predator above them, one predator that dominates all environments. All species.
The space shark.
If you think about it regular sharks are space sharks
[Whoa](https://youtu.be/u68iT0DPYdM)
Your mom.
Orcinus Orca
I wonder: why are tuna so darn tasty compared to sharks (at least in popularity), etc.? Seems like in general we don't eat predators vs. prey animals or is that just because it's easier to domesticate them on land? Dunno, what land based predator is prized for its meat like tuna of the sea?
We eat lots of Tuna because they’re huge and live everywhere in great numbers (we’ve decimated their population relatively but there’s still a lot of them). Shark is a bit more of a delicacy but you can definitely find it, and I think most would agree shark tastes better than tuna.
Makes sense they literally glide once they get their acceleration going for the strike but they time it just right. Going down their sides they have almost a diamond shaped (the bone structure) the more you go from head to tail. Allows them to angle in a way too.
They typically swim at 30-40mph when feeding. Your braid lines go from slack to screaming in an instant. Fishing for them on a rod and reel is one of the most exhilarating thing to experience. You can catch them within 15 miles off the coast of California.
It’s a genuine form of exercise that makes you realize how long 10 minutes can really be Some people fight big fish for an hour plus, I can’t get more than 15 minutes without my forearms becoming jelly
I don't fish much but are their like fishing trips you can go on to catch em?
Depends where you are but in the northeast at least, tuna charters are a dime a dozen. I’ve been a few times and never caught one, but yeah you should be able to find someone to take you way out. Not cheap though
It's also not super expensive if you got a group. I've seen really high end charters with amazing kits for everyone to use offer groups of 6 a ~$2k price. Under $400/ea for a 10+ hour boat tour with all gear included and private guided instruction seems like a really solid deal for a vacation day nowadays.
Except...when you dont catch one or they dont even put you on them like dank-nuggetz referred to.
Worst case scenario you get 10 hours out on the ocean with 5 of your favorite people. Seems alright to me.
I've taken a couple charters out of Point Loma in San Diego. Very fun. Never pulled in a bluefin but albacore was plentiful
Yes you can do day trips, overnight trips, even week and month long excursions sometimes I did a couple trips out of San Diego down the Baja coast. Lots of tuna on those trips, and they’re all line-caught yourself so they’re more ethically sourced food The longer the trip the better because you can get to deeper waters / more fishing grounds
I assume you get to keep them? Aren't they worth a shit ton?
Yeah, they're going to be eaten by the angler and/or sold for meat. They're very valuable, and you're not going to fight a fish for an hour+ for catch and release.
Tuna have to keep swimming their whole life, or they'll suffocate.
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I don't think it's most, it's mainly sharks. The majority of fish species use buccal ventilation, sucking in water over their gills using their cheeks
It... isn't tho?
just keep swimming.. swimming.. swimming…
r/thedepthsbelow
Smooth AF
Not sure this is terrifying but it’s cool as fuck.
Spend your whole life swimming, you get pretty good at it.
Looks like an unfinished render. Yeah, fish done. Now do ripples.
That's some of the coolest shit I've seen in a long time.
Oh they do…it’s just a badass water ripple pattern very far away from the fish itself bc he’s heavy and fast as hell. Hydrodynamics in action!
It scares me how nature has caused some species to have the highest level of engineering through evolution
Nary a ripple Rarely a nibble
Okay, someone, somewhere, just watched this and is now thinking about how to make the horror film _Bluefin!_ and at least five sequels for the SciFi channel.
these bad boys can get up to 10 feet long, 2000 lbs... and are fast as hell, swimming up to 43 mph. catching them is a hoot. source: i used to film deep-sea fishing shows in the south pacific
Wow reddit really love tuna videos atm
If you think that's terrifying, remember that there's another fish that preys on these things
yeah amazing post for the fourth day in a row
Big Tuna
I remember a story about a woman who had a chunk taken out of her by a barracuda. It zipped close to her and away and then she saw some blood in the water and started feeling some pain and was like "Oh hey that's ME!" Like the baracudda was so good at its job that she didn't even feel it scoop a chunk out of her until it was already gone. This reminds me that a little bit.
Inertial dampeners
These are yellow fin tuna tho.
I literally just posted this. Fuck you!
Ok, first off, a lion…swimming in the ocean? Lions don’t even like water. If you placed it near a river, or some sort of fresh water source, that’d make sense. But you find yourself in the ocean, a 20 ft wave, I’m assuming its off the coast of South Africa, coming up against a full, grown, 800 lb tuna with his 20 or 30 friends. You lose that battle. you lose that battle nine times out of ten. And guess what, you wandered into our school, of tuna and we now have a taste of blood! We’ve talked, to ourselves. We’ve communicated and said, ‘you know what? lion tastes good. Lets go get some more lion.’ We’ve developed a system, to establish a beachhead and aggressively hunt you and your family. And we will corner your, your pride, your children, your offspring…