According to The New York Times, Dave Lamoreaux, a futures and options trader who lives most of the year in Chicago, loves to catch bluefin tuna from a modified recreational kayak around Provincetown, Mass., a task which involves hooking the fish and hanging on until it exhausts itself, then paddling back to shore. So far, the biggest one he's caught weighed 157 pounds, a record for tuna and about 30 pounds shy of the unassisted kayak-angling overall record (a 183-pound halibut caught by an Alaskan, Howard McKim, in 2004). Lamoreaux was really disappointed once when he had to cut a tuna estimated on sonar to weigh about 800 pounds, but his friends on commercial boats told him it was so big that it didn't even know he was there. Catching a tuna from a kayak is risky, but Lamoreaux has the right idea; he's seriously equipped to survive a spill. "I don't plan on calling the Coast Guard or the commercial fishermen for help. I think that's irresponsible," he told the Times. Read much more here, but don't expect Lamoreaux to divulge any secrets.
