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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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2025, Fishing Yellowfin Tuna on Spotted Dolphin Schools
47:43 · Mike HennessySpotted dolphins and yellowfin tuna feed cooperatively off Costa Rica, creating productive scenarios when dolphins herd baitfish. Mike Hennessy's specialized techniques require distinguishing feeding behavior from traveling schools through water color and bird activity, strategic boat positioning maintaining strike zones without spooking pods, and rigging configurations with bait presentation timing matching the aggressive feeding frenzy intensity.
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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, 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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2019, Black Bart Lures Hooks and Rigging
1:40:20 · RJ BoyleHook weight and positioning affect Black Bart lure swimming action as much as head design, yet most anglers rig without considering these balance factors. Jack Tullius explains why hook selection impacts performance beyond just hookup ratios, how cable and skirt choices change presentation characteristics, and what spread positions optimize each lure model's effectiveness.
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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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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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