( CNN ) -- Gregg Looney is one for tradition . Although he and his buddies did n't catch anything at all during a fishing trip last summer , he had so much fun they all decided to do it again this year . So last week the Dracut , Massachusetts , native and his four longtime friends set out for an entire day fishing off the coast of Cape Cod . What a difference a year makes . After dropping anchor a few miles off of Provincetown at around 8 a.m. , Gregg baited his first hook of the day . `` And then all of the sudden , Boom ! '' Gregg told CNN . That boom was a 920-pound Bluefin tuna on the other end of his line . `` It dragged us around the ocean for three hours '' he said . `` We had to cut the anchor ! '' It took the strength of all of them -- rotating every 15 or 20 minutes -- to reel it in . After the 9-foot-long tuna was taken back to the dock , it was cleaned , stripped of the bones and was sold for $ 4,000 . It was enough tuna to fill nearly 2,000 of the 5-ounce cans sold in the grocery store . Will the gang do it again next summer ? `` You bet '' Looney says . `` In the same spot , on the same day , at the same time , on same boat , with same crew , and I 'm even going to use the same hook ''
Gregg Looney and some pals went fishing off the coast of Massachusetts last week . It took them three hours to reel in the huge Bluefin . The 9-foot-long fish sold for $ 4,000 .