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2024, Gore's Offshore Tuna Trolling Lures
36:24 · Jason GoreNASCAR engine machinist Jason Gore applies precision manufacturing to tuna lure design where natural keel weighting creates true swimming action through hydrodynamic engineering. Plastic, aluminum, and brass head materials offering identical shapes in weights from 1 to 8 oz. provide tactical flexibility for varied trolling speeds, sea conditions, and target depths without learning new lure characteristics.
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2022, Top 10 Tuna Fishing Lures: Seth Hartwick
2:53 · Seth HartwickSelecting tuna lures without global testing experience leads to collections filled with designs that sound effective but fail under real fishing conditions. Seth Hartwick fished every major tuna fishery worldwide, working with top anglers and craftsmen to refine his collection to only the best quality performers that trigger strikes across varied feeding behaviors and environmental factors rather than location-specific patterns.
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2022, Sinking Stickbaits for Bluefin Tuna Fishing
13:33 · Seth HartwickShearwaters and birds interfering with topwater bluefin fishing demand tactical switches to sinking stickbaits that place presentations below bird activity zones. Seth Hartwick's experience reveals how lure size, color, and natural action matching bluefin forage overcome selectivity from discerning tuna, requiring precise rigging and boat positioning that maximizes opportunities when birds dominate surface feeding scenarios.
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2022, Topwater Lures for Bluefin Tuna Fishing with Seth Hartwick
14:58 · Seth HartwickBluefin tuna topwater fishing pushes tackle to limits, demanding expert knowledge before targeting these powerful predators with poppers and floating stickbaits. Seth Hartwick's worldwide experience reveals why bluefin behave as discerning eaters requiring diversified lure selection, quality rigging techniques, and casting tackle balancing throwing ability with lifting power needed during brutal fights with ocean's strongest fish.
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2018, Big Game Legends - Billy Harrison
1:28:03 · Billy HarrisonBilly Harrison In The Spread Big Game Legends Interview
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2018, Giant Bluefin Tuna Fishing in Nova Scotia
2:26:40 · RJ BoyleGiant bluefin tuna in Nova Scotia concentrate around commercial herring operations rather than following traditional offshore patterns, creating unique tactical challenges. Andy Moyes explains why techniques from other Atlantic fisheries fail here, what custom tackle specifications handle fish exceeding 800 pounds, and how positioning around active herring boats determines whether you access feeding opportunities or watch from distance.
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2026, Running Tuna Trolling Lures That Raise Fish
Seth HorneMost anglers obsess over which lure to buy and ignore what actually gets bit. This is the trolling breakdown: the plugs, feathers, cedar plugs, and spreader bars that raise yellowfin, blackfin, and bluefin, and the speed, position, and color calls that make any of them work.
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2023, Yellowfin Tuna Lures: What Works Offshore and Why
Seth HorneFour lure categories cover virtually every yellowfin tuna scenario you will encounter offshore: topwater poppers, sinking stickbaits, jigs, and trolling lures. None is universally best. Knowing what the fish are doing in the water column at that moment is what puts the right lure in your hand.
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2022, Casting Lures for Yellowfin and Bluefin Tuna
Seth HorneCasting to breaking tuna is the most interactive way to catch them, and it rewards the right lure and the right cast. With Seth Hartwick, we break down the poppers and stickbaits worth throwing, the brands that survive big fish, casting technique, and how yellowfin and bluefin differ.
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2021, Best Hooks for Tuna Fishing: Size & Brand Chart
Seth HorneMost anglers choose hooks that are too large for tuna fishing. These fish possess the sharpest vision in the ocean and refuse baits with visible hooks. Learn the exact sizes professional captains use for bluefin and yellowfin in different regions.
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2020, Chunking Yellowfin Tuna in Open Water
Seth HorneOff the shelf, the slick is the only thing tying yellowfin to your boat. Get the finding and the feeding right and open water produces like any rig. This covers birds and drift, bait and cadence, depth control, sonar, and the sharks and mistakes that cost you fish.
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