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2024, Gore's Offshore Wahoo Trolling Lures
Gore's Offshore owner Jason Gore is a machinist for high profile NASCAR race teams. He brings that same skill and attention to detail to his offshore fishing passion and the design of his wahoo trolling lures.
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2024, Ballyhoo Bait Rigs for Slow Trolling Wahoo
Learn rigging techniques for slow-trolling ballyhoo targeting wahoo, including spread positions, leader material, and step-by-step ballyhoo rigging methods using Gore Offshore rigs.
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2024, Wahoo Slow Trolling: On-Water Techniques with Mike Dupree
Ballyhoo rigging technique determines whether slow trolling wahoo baits maintain natural action or wash out losing effectiveness at reduced speeds. Captain Mike Dupree's on-water demonstration reveals planer and bridle deployment for depth control, spread configuration keeping multiple baits working productively, and understanding wahoo food chain relationships that drive fish positioning and feeding behavior throughout the water column.
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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
Custom wahoo lure making provides advantages commercial offerings cannot replicate when targeting formidable predators at high speeds. Captain Shawn Rotella's process crafting lead bullet lures with strategic skirt colors, piano wire leaders, and non-IGFA hook rigs demonstrates how construction quality and rigging techniques affect both lure longevity and action during trolling sessions demanding constant performance.
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2023, Wahoo Slow Trolling: Planning - Mike Dupree
Slow trolling wahoo creates opportunities when high-speed presentations fail to trigger selective fish. Captain Mike Dupree's North Carolina expertise reveals using satellite data for isolating temperature breaks and current convergences, tackle specifications for slower speeds including planers for depth control, and ballyhoo rigging techniques producing natural presentations that aggressive methods cannot replicate effectively.
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2023, Slow Trolling Live Bait for Wahoo with Shawn Rotella Part 2
Slow trolling at 3 to 6 knots creates wahoo opportunities in Hawaii when high-speed presentations fail, requiring understanding of biological drivers affecting feeding behavior. Captain Shawn Rotella's legendary expertise reveals why speed ranges with live bait, dead bait, and lures trigger selective fish, plus gear and tackle differences between slow and high-speed trolling approaches matching ecological realities.
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2023, Slow Trolling Wahoo with Shawn Rotella Part 1
Slow trolling live bait unlocks wahoo opportunities when fish won't chase high-speed presentations, requiring understanding of how weather, tides, and moon phases affect feeding patterns. Captain Shawn Rotella's expertise reveals when to switch from speed trolling, how structure and current relationships concentrate wahoo, and drag management techniques preventing common mistakes that cost fish during fights with powerful speedsters.
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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, 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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2025, Trolling Techniques for King Mackerel, Spanish, and Wahoo
Three species, three completely different approaches. King mackerel demand slow-trolling patience with live bait, Spanish mackerel chase high-speed spoons at 6-7 knots, and wahoo strike at 15 knots offshore. Get the trolling speed wrong by two knots, and you'll struggle while others load coolers. Here's how to dial in each species.
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2025, Wahoo Fishing in Florida: Expert Regional Tactics
Catch trophy wahoo throughout Florida with proven techniques from professional anglers. Learn regional hotspots, optimal trolling spreads, and seasonal patterns from the Keys to the Panhandle. Leverage tidal movements, water temperature, and specialized lures to target these lightning-fast predators in their natural hunting grounds.
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