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I'm very interested in the methods you guys use for targeting yellowfin tuna. Our fish average 100-120lb's with quite a few going well over 200lb's. We catch most of our fish on bait. Creating a chum slick and bait fishing is a VERY effective tactic here. We also troll lures, but since we don't troll that much, our lures are very limited.
Here's a selection of lures we use. Unfortunately, most of our fishing is done on 16-28' boats, so almost nobody uses out-riggers.
Picture one is the HALCO lures we use. The middle one is the GT jig. VERY effective for large YF.
Picture two is RAPALA X-RAP's. The top one is responsible for a 205lb YF on its first trip!
Picture three is the usual RAPALA CD22 and CD18's.
Picture four is the meduim sized YAMASH-ITA squids with large bird, rigged with a single 10/0 mustad hook.
Picture 5 and 6 are plastic's pulled primarily for albacore tuna. They DO take the odd YF, but are primarily albacore lures (the albacore range from 20-70lb's)
Please post some pictures and techniques that are effective on YOUR yellowfins!!

Thanx in advance!!
Regards
miles
I'm very interested in the methods you guys use for targeting yellowfin tuna. Our fish average 100-120lb's with quite a few going well over 200lb's. We catch most of our fish on bait. Creating a chum slick and bait fishing is a VERY effective tactic here. We also troll lures, but since we don't troll that much, our lures are very limited.
Here's a selection of lures we use. Unfortunately, most of our fishing is done on 16-28' boats, so almost nobody uses out-riggers.
Picture one is the HALCO lures we use. The middle one is the GT jig. VERY effective for large YF.
Picture two is RAPALA X-RAP's. The top one is responsible for a 205lb YF on its first trip!
Picture three is the usual RAPALA CD22 and CD18's.
Picture four is the meduim sized YAMASH-ITA squids with large bird, rigged with a single 10/0 mustad hook.
Picture 5 and 6 are plastic's pulled primarily for albacore tuna. They DO take the odd YF, but are primarily albacore lures (the albacore range from 20-70lb's)
Please post some pictures and techniques that are effective on YOUR yellowfins!!
Thanx in advance!!
Regards
miles
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