Learn how South Florida anglers use live pilchards, heavy chumming and tackle choices to find and hook blackfin tuna from the Keys to Palm Beach.

They weighed the tuna at Pelican Rest Marina in Galveston. It officially weighed 884 pounds, topping the standing Texas ...

David Esslinger and a group of buddies headed offshore from Galveston, Texas around daybreak on Thursday. They were on Carson Deer’s offshore boat, Catillac, a 46-foot catamaran. The crew was rigged ...

In April of 2025, a group of anglers off the coast of Galveston, Texas caught a monster-sized bluefin tuna. The previous state record was a whopping 876 lbs., but the bluefin hoisted aboard the ...

An unforgettable experience, that’s what it was for one Outer Banks fisherman after fighting and towing in a 212-pound ...

Houston's David L. Essingler catching a 884-pound blue fin tuna not only set a Texas state record for heaviest blue fin tuna ...

_Michelle Bancewicz knows how to catch big tuna, period. In the fall of 2021, Field & Stream reported on a viral video showing Bancewicz catching a 9-foot tuna solo aboard her boat, aptly named the ...

Several companies – including Albacora, Maruha Nichiro, Dongwon, Bolton Group and Sajo – are key harvesters of tuna species threatened with extinction. An estimated 56% of the 30 largest tuna ...

Houston man David L. Essingler has officially set the state record for his catch of a Blue Fin Tuna nearly a year ago.