Video of the Week: Australian fishermen use drone to catch tuna

A fisherman and his friend used some cool drone tech to catch a 44-pound tuna off the coast of New South Wales in Australia.

Jaiden Maclean and his friend Byron Leal located the tuna using a drone and dropping a baited hook directly into the school. Once the tuna would bite, the line would break away from the drone and be able to be reeled in.

“My mate Jaiden has a drone and he was flying it around out the back of our house trying to film turtles,” Leal told Newsweek. “We stumbled across a school of tuna and wondered how we could get our bait out to the tuna and catch them. We were having a few beers and we made up this breakaway rig on the drone and flew the bait out. We dropped it next to the tuna and we got one at the first try.”