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Is entrepreneurship in your blood?

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Brian was a ski boat and bluefin tuna angling pioneer in South Africa.

My son, who was working on a yacht in Europe, sent me a photograph of a tuna he had caught in the Adriatic Sea. He was thrilled because it was the first game fish he had caught out of South Africa. The tuna was most likely an Albacore which is a tuna species found in the Adriatic Sea.

It was fantastic to share the excitement from home with him as he told me about spotting the shoal of tuna while sailing in the Adriatic. He quickly got out a rod and reel with a spinner on it and cast into the shoal and hooked one. Continue reading “Is entrepreneurship in your blood?”

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Tales of Tuna – lost but not forgotten

Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Credit: Wikimedia Commons

I remember as a young boy being out on my father’s first ski boat in Fish Hoek Bay fishing for the giant Southern Bluefin Tuna. A long bamboo pole extended from one of the rod holders. To this pole the Dacron fishing line was tied with a piece of white cotton. The line extended just below the surface where the hook was attached to a large live squid with a hook lightly tucked into its back. The “live bait” stayed just below the surface, food for roaming and hungry Bluefin Tuna. Continue reading “Tales of Tuna – lost but not forgotten”