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lol Dang! The shark got away! My ancestors used to go out for bluefin, first with harpoons from a bow pulpit, and later with rod-and reel. Through the 1950's the bluefin used to run the Tusket rip, and then they essentially just disappeared.

My father had good stories-though he personally never came home with a fish. One story was very much like yours--except that it was a600 lb giant tuna that got eaten. In another story, the tuna swallowed the hook and pierced its heart--the easiest fight of all.

Sadly, I've never gone out and fished like that. There's always tomorrow.

Good story!

This story made me throw my guts up. Why? I like to eat canned tuna. I ate it for lunch almost every day when I was in school. Just once, I ate fresh tuna, and I was disappointed. Fresh and canned tuna taste very different, and I didn't like the fresh tuna. Yes, Pauline, fresh and canned are absolutely nothing alike. I think if you close your eyes and breathe deeply with a mouthful of fresh tuna, you can catch a hint of that flavor which you grew up thinking was tuna. I'm surprised you didn't like it fresh. How was it prepared? It should taste pretty much like a good steak would. And, as any good steak would be prepared, it should be rare.

Raw, preferably.

Canned tuna has improved since they took away the can. My favorite is StarKist albacore, straight from the pouch with crackers or multigrain bread. George makes a pretty mean tuna salad that's 100% kid-friendly (i.e. no celery or small crunchy things).

I'll try tuna from a pouch. I didn't expect it to taste very different from tuna in a can. coke in a bottle = good
coke in a can = bad

same goes for tuna except that

tuna fresh from the sea = best

Sashimi is best but I'm too poor woo hoo!