
Jigging and Popping for Tuna
Experts offer tips on a dual strategy that targets tuna from the surface to deep in the water column.
For strength and speed, tunas offer unmatched challenge as elite big game species.
Experts offer tips on a dual strategy that targets tuna from the surface to deep in the water column.
Tactics for tuna, on the surface and deep.
Specialized flying-fish baits lead to more bluefin tuna catches.
Somewhere, somehow, yellowfin tuna are biting along North Carolina’s Outer Banks.
Technically the tunas are part of the mackerel family, Scombridae, but for anglers’ purposes, they fall under the genus Thunnus, apart from kingfish, wahoo, mackerel, and other members of the family. The mostly pelagic tunas, from the diminutive bonitos, often favored as bait for larger bluewater predators, to bluefins, that can top half a ton, offer a range of sport in the world’s oceans, on an equally varietal range of tackle, from fly-rods to 130-pound trolling gear, on everything from feathers, to live baits and trolled lures.
The middleweights, blackfins in the Atlantic, which run to 40-pounds, and albacore in the Pacific, generally 20 to 40 pounds, provide fast action to trolled baits and lures around rips and seamounts on medium tackle. For strength and speed, the royalty of the oceanic tribe, bluefins, yellowfins and bigeye offer unmatched challenge as elite big game species; and provide some of the best table fare that swims.
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