HOW TO CUT/PROCESS AHI (YELLOWFIN TUNA) 

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Yup! Definitely grateful to have a friend that can process an ahi so cleanly. Hopefully the video is a good reference for everyone 🤙🏽

@@SmallKineFishing I grew up fishing Oahu, I moved to BigIsland bought me a Force 21 and fishing here is way easier than Oahu here one mile out we catching Ono, ahi , mahi-mahi .

@@Hunter-qj6eb right on!! Yeah I got friends in Kona.. the fishing sounds like it’s always on over there. 21 force is the dream for me also. Hopefully someday haha

​@SMALL KINE FISHING 6 dollars a lb whole for fish is the equivalent of 10 dollars a lb fillet. 60% return on a whole fish for meat

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Thanks for the support! Your guysʻ bluefin tuna season starting up soon right?

@@SmallKineFishing late spring is usually when it starts ramping up but this year has been a weird one weather wise. Hopefully we have a productive summer.

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It's rev's knife sharpener, but yes, he uses it each time we cut fish. He's had it for a while and definitely gets the job done much better (and easier) than a manual knife sharpener

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Ahi generally runs anywhere from $16-25 a lb! 🤙🏽

Yup you’re absolutely right, not properly caring for the fish once brought into the boat can ruin the meat. The main thing is bleeding it out well as soon as possible. This can be done by first making an incision in the stomach cavity and removing some of the guts, then in the gill plate, tracing the gills with a serrated knife and removing those. If done correctly, you should be able to remove the gills with the stomach/other organs attached. You can see this briefly demonstrated in my other video “FIRST AHI on a 17 ft BOAT”. Good luck! 🤙🏽

Oh and one other tip that was shared with other fishermen, is to bury the tuna in ice, making sure to fill the (now empty) stomach cavity with ice as well. A good ratio is approximately 1 lb of ice per 1 lb of fish (so 100 lb tuna should be iced with about 100 lbs of ice). Brining the fish by adding salt water to the ice is also helpful in bringing down the core temp in the cooler, assuring meat is preserved and iced properly.

@@SmallKineFishing Great advice thank you for spelling it all out. I troll Nomads off my sailboat a few miles east of Kaneohe so far my pb is a 30lb shibi still waiting for that proper ahi tight lines my friend cheee 🤙🏼

Right on! That’s still a solid size shibi 🤙🏽 nomads are great for ono on the ledge too. Good luck, tight lines!

We don’t like wasting in Hawaii. Plenty folks eat the blood meat (fried, dried, raw etc.). We also eat the belly, collars, eyeballs, cheek meat, bone marrow and scrape the center bone clean to make negi. People even save the skin and deep fry it…

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