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2025, Popper Fishing Yellowfin Tuna on Spinner Dolphin
43:48 · Mike HennessyYellowfin tuna surface feeding around spinner dolphins creates thrilling popper opportunities when reading natural indicators including finback and short beak dolphin activity. Success requires strategic boat positioning avoiding spooking fish with straight approaches, casting 100-plus feet, and mastering pop-and-wait retrieval cadence with 3 to 5 second pauses rather than working lures too fast.
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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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2024, Lures for Tuna and Wahoo: Mike Hennessy
8:30 · Mike HennessyMike Hennessy's decades of global offshore experience reveal when poppers and stickbaits excel for casting to surface-feeding tuna versus bibbed plugs and twitchbaits dominating trolling scenarios. Lure selection based on fish behavior and environmental conditions drives tactical decisions, with retrieval technique adjustments and color preferences accounting for water clarity and light affecting how yellowfin and wahoo respond throughout the day.
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2023, Lure Trolling for Yellowfin Tuna with Shawn Rotella
23:51 · Shawn RotellaYellowfin tuna trolling tactics shift dramatically when skipjack schools appear, demanding lure adjustments most anglers miss. Captain Shawn Rotella's Kona expertise reveals how predatory patterns, tide influences, and habitat structures determine which lure colors and trolling speeds trigger strikes from Thunnus albacares, plus post-catch gilling and cooling techniques preserving quality for premium table fare.
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2022, Sub Surface Lures for Yellowfin Tuna Fishing
23:48 · Seth HartwickYellowfin tuna feed in the top three to five meters using the surface as an edge to trap baitfish, making sub-surface lures more effective than topwater presentations. Sinking stickbaits reach these feeding zones while avoiding bird interference that dominates surface activity, requiring proper terminal tackle pairing with hooks and split rings maintaining lure action during violent strikes.
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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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2022, Topwater Lures for Yellowfin Tuna Fishing with Seth
24:05 · Seth HartwickTopwater yellowfin tuna fishing evolved into refined styles where popper and stickbait quality, build, and price vary dramatically. Seth Hartwick's extensive lure testing reveals which designs justify investment, how sea conditions affect lure selection and placement, and what tackle components including hooks, split rings, swivels, and leaders create reliable setups withstanding violent tuna strikes.
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2022, Jigs for Yellowfin Tuna Fishing
13:04 · Seth HartwickYellowfin tuna suspending at depth matching deep water baitfish require speed jigs and knife jigs rather than surface presentations. Seth Hartwick's worldwide experience reveals success demands understanding jigging techniques that work entire water columns, proper boat and angler positioning, and matching rod specifications to jig sizes with gear ratios and drag systems handling sustained runs from depth.
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2018, Top 5 Yellowfin Tuna Fishing Surface Lures - Venice
14:06 · Josh HowardYellowfin tuna around Venice, Louisiana oil platforms reject surface lures that work elsewhere in the Gulf. Captain Josh Howard explains how Mississippi River discharge affects baitfish profiles, why popper and swimming bait selection must match local forage size and behavior, and when surface presentations outperform subsurface approaches around Louisiana oil structures.
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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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2024, Fishing Stickbaits for Tuna, GT, and Wahoo
Seth HorneStickbaits are among the most effective lures for targeting yellowfin tuna, giant trevally, wahoo, and other pelagic predators in open water. This breakdown covers how to choose floating vs. sinking models, which retrieve techniques produce the most strikes, and how to fight large fish on heavy spinning tackle without breaking gear.
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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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