My Son Gets an Albie
With the tuna in town, it didn’t take long for my son to nail a nice size ablie. Can you tell he is excited? Man oh man! Love that photo.
This a new boat for him. He got it in an online auction. Went to bed thinking he had lost, but the morning brought a different story. It’s an old 19-foot Seaway with a 9-foot beam. Needs cosmetic work, but overall it is in decent shape. And my kid is an excellent mechanic. As the story goes, this boat spent much of its life in Madaket Harbor over on Nantucket. The owner was likely a commercial fisherman, possibly working out around Tuckernuck and Nantucket Shoals. After he passed, the boat was returned to his native state of Connecticut and stored in a barn for a decade or more before it went up for sale.
Congratulations to your son. Hope he will catch lots of Albacore. Suspect he used lures. Perhaps he’ll evolve to flies.