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Angling for Skipjack Tuna | Tuna Fishing :

Skipjack Tuna is also known as Striped Tuna or Stripies. The skipjack or striped tuna is also known by many Australian anglers as the "stripey". In Hawaii, the Polynesian name for this prolific species is "aku". As with all the tunas, the name "tunny" is still sometimes used, and skipjacks are often confused with bonito (Sarda australis and S. orientalis).

Skipjack tuna are commonly caught by sport and recreational anglers.  Most fish are caught by trolling or casting small lures from a boat.  Catches are also made using flies or baits of whole, small fish or flesh strips.  Skipjack tuna are a very good bait for a variety of marine fish, with large skipjack tuna being used for the larger species of tuna and billfish.

Skipjack are mainly pursued as bait for larger or more desirable target species, although they are brilliant sport fish in their own right, and provide one of the toughest battles, for their size, of any pelagic species. The vast majority of skipjack taken by anglers fall to small lures trolled behind boats or cast-and-retrieved from boats, deep shorelines or jetties and wharves. Striped tuna will also take un-weighted pilchards or small flesh-strip baits and even small live baits at times, especially when these are fished in conjunction with a berley trial.

Most striped tuna or skipjack caught by Australian anglers weigh from 1 to 6 kg, with a few giants of close to 10 kg turning up occasionally. Record catches in other parts of the world have topped 18 kg, but such fish are uncommon.

Did you know?
Tuna cannot pump water over their gills like other fish, instead they swim with their mouths open which forces the water over their gills. If they stop swimming they will suffocate.

Did you know?
Tuna have hearts that are much larger than other fish, they are about 10 times as large, relative to the size of the body.

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