Now This Is A Yellowfin!

any body remember those huge yellowfins being called ALLISON TUNA

ALLISON = YELLOWFIN=Thunnus albacares, just the bigger ones, like the one in the photo, with the large yellow sickle-like fins. They used to consider them different species, or at least subspecies, but DNA analysis show them to be the same.

yea they are the same we would just call the ones with the big sickles allisons.I still call them Horse mackeral.

Yeah I remember Most of the yellowfins we catch up here don't have the big sickle fins. But some if the bigger ones do, those were the ones we called allisons.

I have never caught any more than 80 pounds.