Jonathan Anderson and Captain Herb Sheades, landed what is likely the largest bluefin tuna ever caught off the Carolina coast.  The two commercial fishermen were aboard the Fish Bucket on an early morning run last week.

"Nothing is ever normal, these fish are extremely finicky," says Anderson. "You're lucky if you get one. We've fished for twenty-five days before landing our first keeper. It's not as easy as TV makes it out to be."

The men knew tuna were in the area. They heard another fisherman landed one and soon everybody started tuna fishing, and, "We got lucky, and got a nice one."

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