How small would you keep?

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How small would you keep?

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Just saw that Scott from Scott Gray Fishing is getting on some school Tuna, mainly small around the 8kg mark with the odd better sized.

I also came across some tagged tuna data shared by Tuna Champions on Facebook where 20+kg tuna had caught, tagged and released.

It made me think, what would be my keep/release size tuna.

I suppose it would depend on whether you came across a big school, or lone fish, but what would you cutoff be?
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A small tuna would still have plenty of meat, unless it looks like an upgrade is likely it’d be straight to the murderbox
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4liters wrote:A small tuna would still have plenty of meat, unless it looks like an upgrade is likely it’d be straight to the murderbox
Depends what you consider small ;)
2kg?
6kg?
8kg?
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don't know what it weighed but I kept an 86 cm long tail last trip up north and there were 4 good fillets out of that

it would be much the same with a SBF
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Smallest I've kept would be around 10kg. I've caught smaller but released those. My preferred size is generally 15kg or above.

I'm tempted to take the yak down this weekend but had already committed to taking our car that's banned from carrying yaks. :shock: I will be freediving for crays from the shore at Killarney on Saturday and Sunday. Let me know if anyone wants to come along.
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I looked up an 86cm long tail and it would weigh around 6kg. As for what size you would keep wouldn't this depend on where and when you caught it and how far you intend to travel with it and when? If you have several people you can have a feed with or share the fish with then i guess the bigger the better, i think a 6kg fish of any kind is more than enough for the 3 of us (me, myself and I ) lol
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