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Bluefin tuna Release

July 16, 2026 Olhão 6 photos
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Tuna (Bluefin)
Tuna (Bluefin)

Trip Summary

It was a perfect day for Charles and is son, we get out to the sea and in 45 minutes we hooked a BFT, Charles who never fished if Game fishing, it seemed that it was his pelagic 10, after 1h30m We land it and release a 200kg BFT. Charles words “ It was harder than I thought”
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Olhao, Faro District, Portugal
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