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2025, Blue Marlin Fishing: Teasers and Baits
Edge fishing around offshore seamounts and structure concentrates blue marlin where current and depth changes create ambush zones. Mike Hennessy's decades of expertise reveal bait and switch tactics combining teaser attraction with precise ballyhoo or skipjack presentation, requiring timing and positioning that convert teaser-attracted marlin into hookups through strategic deployment and natural bait action.
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2019, Bait Rigging: Cutting Strip Baits from Bonito
Maintaining live bait offshore creates complications that strip baits eliminate while producing scent trails and texture predators recognize instinctively. Proper cutting technique regarding grain direction, blade angle, and meat thickness determines whether strips swim naturally and survive multiple strikes or tear apart, forcing re-rigging during feeding windows when keeping lines working matters most.
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2018, Rigging Strip Baits for Saltwater Fishing
Learn step-by-step strip bait rigging for offshore pelagics including wahoo, dolphin, sailfish, marlin, swordfish, kingfish, and tuna. This video covers species-specific rigging differences, when artificial components improve performance, trolling speed adjustments, and why strip baits consistently outperform other bait options.
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2018, Bait Rigging for Daytime Swordfish with RJ Boyle
Daytime swordfish become selective when feeding slows due to moon phase or tide, making bait freshness and rigging quality critical rather than optional. RJ Boyle demonstrates seven bait options and specific rigging techniques for each, explaining when ladyfish, squid, dolphin belly, or bonito produce better results based on depth, current, and swordfish feeding behavior at extreme depths.
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2025, Using Bonito as Bait for Big Game Offshore Fishing
Few baits work across the full range of offshore species the way bonito does. From live-rigged blue marlin baits to belly strips for sailfish and chunks for deep-dropping swords, bonito earns its place in the box through concentrated oil, durable flesh, and a size profile that puts trophy fish on the hook.
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