We have released over 300 blue-fin tuna fishing only 15 miles from the beach.  Over 50 of those fish were on 10 wt. fly-rods.  Many of those fish caught from my flats boat!  What an unbelievable week it has been.  I was also pleasantly surprised by a 15 pound mahi that showed up behind the boat and ate a clouser minnow.  After over a dozen jumps the fish was landed.  We may never see action like this again so close to the beach.  Capt. Joe Hughes (Photos are all taken Summer of 2004.)

Note the tuna bending the rod on the poling platform;)

Happiness is a fly-rod in the teeth and a fish in the hands!