Du bleed them sbt? Do yous often get kings amongst the tuna?

I spike and bleed the SBT tim-o.  you can see some of the blood down the centre/back whilst catching the king.

I now stand them head down in a big tub/bucket as it saves on clean up.  Also have a theory about increasing the possibility of the next tuna getting sharked after leaving a trail of blood out the scuppers so with the bucket can just dump it in one spot.

sometimes pick up a king with the tuna schools (particularly around this time of year late in the bluefin run), that being said that one was caught on top a 10m shelf area (50m to 40m) I have the spot marked and going to give it a looksee next time I'm out there (hopefully next few weeks) in case we have uncovered a good kingie spot

this year they have been picking up fish from 15kg to 25 and also quite a few around 30kg plus.  Biggest (I've seen a pic of) went 37kg.  getting bigger each year so can't wait till next year when I should be able to get out a few times.

Cheers

Yeah been watchin Scott Gray continually catchin big blues atm on all sorts, jigs, stickbaits and trolling, he's on the Vic coast I think, looks to be blessed with good weather regularly too