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2024, High Speed Wahoo Trolling Rods and Reels
Expert angler RJ Boyle shares his insights on selecting the best rods and reels for high speed wahoo trolling, emphasizing the importance of quality tackle, rod sensitivity, and reel selection.
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2024, Wahoo Fishing Lures and Rigging Concepts - Shawn Rotella
Dive into the thrilling world of custom wahoo fishing lures with Captain Shawn Rotella. Gain exclusive insights into crafting lures, advanced rigging methods, and effective trolling strategies. Unlock the secrets to landing these formidable predators from a master angler, all in this comprehensive video.
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2023, Rigging Bullet Lures for Wahoo Fishing
Wahoo bullet lures excel at high-speed trolling through streamlined cone design and heavy metal heads that dive and dance unlike other presentations. Arthur Bjontegard's rigging expertise covers wire leader changes, hook placement, and skirting techniques determining whether lures maintain proper action at velocities wahoo fishing demands, plus skirt color significance and trolling speed adjustments for triggering aggressive strikes.
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2020, High Speed Trolling Wahoo at Cay Sal
Frontal systems passing through Cay Sal create extended wahoo bite windows by altering barometric pressure and water conditions that trigger aggressive feeding. Success requires understanding how to handle powerful wahoo at the boat using gill raker control techniques and recognizing atmospheric patterns that produce sustained action rather than brief feeding windows during stable weather.
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2020, High Speed Wahoo Trolling Spread
Overcomplicated wahoo spreads create tangling problems that waste fishing time during high-speed trolling. Success depends on matching spread complexity to boat size, running three rods on center consoles with strategic short and long lure positioning, and understanding how your specific boat handles turns to prevent line crossing during hookups or directional changes.
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2020, Wahoo Fishing Tips for High Speed Trolling
Consistent wahoo success requires integrating trolling speed, spread configuration, tidal timing, and boat driving skills rather than mastering isolated techniques. Understanding how speed affects lure action, which moon phases drive peak activity, how to maintain depth along edges, and boat control during multiple hookups separates systematic producers from anglers who connect randomly when conditions align perfectly.
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2020, Wahoo - Rig and Terminal Tackle for High Speed Trolling
RJ Boyle and Shawn Olds discuss the wahoo rig and terminal tackle used for high-speed trolling, covering various aspects such as wire, mono, and braid. They also discuss the importance of stretch at strike, swivel types, and lead weights. The video also discusses shock cords, wire versus cable, hooks, skirts, and lure choices, with the goal of increasing catches. The insights provided are informative and will help anglers improve their techniques.
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2020, Rigging Wahoo Lures for High Speed Trolling
Rick Redeker's wahoo rigging system diverges from conventional methods through heavier components and unique skirt placement inside glass head lures. His approach weeds out smaller fish by creating presentations that big wahoo respond to, using stainless steel hooks, cable construction, and internal Japanese feathers that alter water flow and lure action at high trolling speeds.
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2020, Tournament Secrets of High Speed Trolling for Wahoo
Tournament wahoo fishermen target big fish through tactical adjustments that weed out smaller specimens. Success requires deeper bait presentations on wire and down lines, reading tidal windows and moon phases that drive trophy wahoo activity, and handling techniques for fish that charge toward the boat creating dangerous slack line situations.
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2020, Wahoo Lure Spread for High Speed Trolling
Elite wahoo fishermen succeed through systematic spread configuration where each lure position covers specific strike zones and facilitates hookup management. Random lure placement wastes opportunities because proper spacing, depth coverage, and positioning relative to the boat determine both strike frequency and the ability to land multiple fish without tangles or difficult gaff angles.
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2020, Driving the Edge: High-Speed Wahoo Trolling
Edge trolling for wahoo fails when boat control drifts lures out of the narrow productive band where structure meets deep water. Success requires driving precision that maintains consistent depth along reef edges as contours change, reading how tidal movement concentrates baitfish, and adjusting angles to keep spreads working the strike zone continuously.
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2020, Wahoo Edge Fishing: Bimini High-Speed Trolling
Bahamas edge fishing for wahoo demands precise depth control at high speeds where running too deep eliminates bites and staying too shallow attracts wrong species. Success depends on maintaining the optimal zone while trolling at 12 knots, reading tidal phases that drive wahoo activity, and using boat positioning to keep lures working the depth transition continuously.
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2018, High Speed Trolling for Wahoo with RJ Boyle
Wahoo demand trolling speeds exceeding 12 knots because their predatory behavior targets fast-moving prey, but standard offshore rigging fails at these speeds. RJ Boyle explains why high speed triggers strikes, how lure configuration and wire leaders handle forces at 18 knots, and what immediate post-strike response prevents the short strikes and cut-offs wahoo create when anglers react too slowly.
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2021, Wahoo Fish - The Razor Toothed Delicacy
Wahoo fish, a majestic oceanic marauder with a ruthless nature, are open ocean predators with stream-lined bodies and retractable fins. They are closely akin to mackerel, tuna, and bonito and are found in tropical and subtropical waters worldwide. Wahoo fish feed on various schooling fishes, including frigate mackerel, scad, butterfish, porcupine fish, and round herring.
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