Tim Ekstrom doesn’t get much chance to fish, since he stays busy finding the critters most of the time. When he has found ‘em he usually has to spend his time assisting anglers, gaffing fish and seeing to the proper operation of the boat and its equipment.
But when Tim skippered his latest Royal Star trip he took a moment to grab a sardine and take it up to the bow during a bluefin bite.
“I made one cast off the bow,” he said to dock reporter Bill Roecker, “with one bait, and I got bit!”
Ekstrom was fishing with a borrowed rig, an Accurate 870 two-speed reel and a matching Accurate seven-foot rod. He got the fish and weighed it in on the ship’s scales a 67.5 pounds. If he’d been eligible to compete for the jackpot the fish would have won second place on the trip, since it was beaten only by a 110-pound Alijos Rocks yellowfin, caught a lot farther south than the bluefin.
Asked what he thought of the gear, Tim said, “The reel was blanking awesome! It was flawless, the cranking power and torque in the reel were incredible. When I took the fish back to the stern all the guys were expressing their amazement about my fishing skill by catching a big one right in the middle of all the 20 to 25-pounders they were catching. But you and I know it was just luck, right?”
Report by Bill Roecker with FishingVideos.com
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