Tuna on the Brain, Foamers on Your Dome
After our April trip to Panama, I am now a complete yellowfin tuna obsessive, twitchy over how long it’s going to take to get back and chase them again. They’re that cool, not least of all because they go crazy on the surface, corralling bait and tearing up the water. Since we’ve gotten back I’ve dug deep into every tackle, gear and location rabbit hole I can find, and I’ve also explored the lighter side of these marvelous fish. If you want to show your allegiance, there are plenty of hats – some of them quite creative – that will demonstrate that you too are tuna-obsessed.
Because they’re so destructively active on the surface, in some corners feeding tuna are known as “foamers,” which gives rise to what might be the funniest hat I’ve seen in a long time, the “Foamer Simpson” from SD Pescador.
A slightly subtler, but no less visually descriptive, hat displaying a tuna’s surface mayhem, is the Breezer from Fintip Fishing Apparel.
Morning Tide Fishing may not show it via a picture, but the Australians’ love of frothing tuna is aptly represented in this lid.
If you need something with more coverage, D. Friel’s Connected by Water offers a straw hat with tuna on the crown as well as under the brim.
Bloody Decks, the team behind the “Local Knowledge” television show, advertises their name menacingly with lightning bolts that connote a tuna’s incredible speed.
At Salty Crew, you can chase a little tail.
For a while, our friends at AFTCO offered an anatomically-correct (is that the right term?) yellowfin visor and hat.
Alas, it is gone now (you may be able to find it from a few retailers), but they still sell a Hot Tuna Trucker Hat.
In my previous feature about Jamaican-flavored fishing gear, I missed the Rasta Tuna Tail from Deep Apparel. You don’t have to wait in vain any longer.
No matter what’s on your head, you shouldn’t wait until you’re 51 to get in on the action like I did. Get to popping now! Email Hanna if you want to join us on our next trip to Panama.
