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Big game fishing in the Strait of Gibraltar.
Double strike 🤯
Wasn’t that second strike a thing of beauty?
Watch how we rely on our Axiom 2 Pro to plan for our strikes!
A lesson in bluefin tuna fishing 👇
3 key stages when you’re catching and releasing a giant bluefin tuna:
1. The strike
2. The fight
3. The revive
Stage 1’s importance is clear. We use a mix of Atlantic and Mediterranean mackerel to get our strikes. The trick is to spend that extra 15-30 minutes fishing for bait so that you’re happy with the bait you get. We always look for strong mackerel which thrash around and make lots of noise. If you settle for inferior, weaker or wounded bait, you slash your chances of a strike ❌
Stage 2 is the fight. Here is where we use our Axiom Pro 2 to show us where the fish is. We could see it was at about 120 metres and quite close to the bottom. This runs the risk of the line being cut on a rock formation so we had to apply extra pressure to get this fish up and save it ✅
Step 3 is arguably the most important. So many people fight a tuna, cut the line and let it go with hook and all. That is sometimes inevitable because of the way the fish comes hooked, but most times you should remove the hook, and troll the fish until it regains its strength. That’s exactly what we did here with our gaff and it ensured that the fish swam off healthily and ready to fight another day!
02/07/2025
2025 what a season 🤯🔥
As the open season closed at 23:30 last night we wanted to give you a recap of some of best catches over this last week and a half! Blessed to have had so many giants give us strikes.
You can bet that we have a ton of footage to share with you all!
Massive thanks to for putting us on the fish and to for providing us with all the gear we need!
#2025
28/06/2025
Exodus in action 📸
What a season so far! Fish after fish after fish 💪
Big thanks to for this shot!
05/08/2023
An eating machine 🐟
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If you zoom in you can see all of the razor sharp teeth tuna use to cut up their prey!
We actually had a strike this year where the mackerel managed to swim away just as the tuna closed its mouth. When we retrieved it, it had a huge array of linear scratches on its body and perished shortly after!
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26/07/2023
Definition of GIANT bluefin tuna!
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It has truly been an extraordinary season aboard the Exodus this year. By far our best giant bluefin tuna season to date and beasts like this one, are the reason why!
From trolling to live bait, there’s been so much activity this season that often times it’s been hard to get away from it all when we’ve wanted a breather 😂
As fishermen we’ve been seeing this coming for a long time and well before the IUCN reclassified this species from endangered to being of least concern. What we’re now seeing is that they’re simply eating anything and everything and putting a strain on other species. With more and more giants every year it’s only a matter of time before other local species start disappearing…
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03/07/2023
Another one for the Exodus - 279kg/615lbs 🔥
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A fantastic way to end the open season!
Caught on the brand new AZ Trading/Exodus rods 🎣
Always with the assistance of our trusted fishfinder - swipe to see the marks we had 🔥
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