Pastor Spencer Homan tells an exciting true story about the Great Tuna run of 1998. The story begins with tuna running only 30 miles off Cape Cod. What made that exciting was that such a run hadn’t happened in 47 years. The tuna were not only running, but they were also biting! It was a fisherman’s dream. All you needed was a sharp hook and some bait and you could haul in a bountiful catch.

You could even make some money. Rumor had it that Japanese buyers would pay up to $50,000 for a nice blue fin tuna. Here’s the catch: Atlantic blue fin tuna can exceed 900 pounds in weight which can be a problem if you are not an expert fisherman. And not every fisherman is an expert at it, believe it or not. And some of these non-experts got themselves in trouble in the Great Tuna run of 1998. Tuna ar…