David Laska, whose family business in Branford, Connecticut, designs, builds and installs marine electronics systems, fished offshore for bigeye and yellowfin tuna in the 1980s and ’90s. After that, he throttled back to catching striped bass, sea bass, fluke and flounder with his children on Long Island Sound.
Over the years he has tangled with a couple of giant bluefin while fishing off Montauk, New York, but never managed to get a tail rope around one. Keen to finally look a giant in the eye, he and two friends chartered a boat to fish for bluefin off Prince Edward Island, the “Bluefin Capital of the World.”
They were not disappointed. Here, Laska, who is 56, looks back on his time fishing off the Canadian maritime province as his El Dorado,…
