3 Effective Tuna Fishing Techniques - How to Catch More Tuna

Fishing for tuna can be extremely frustrating. It is extremely easy to spend a few thousand dollars simply buying the best equipment available. Additionally, you can easily spend a few hundred dollars in fuel expenses trolling around the ocean if you do not know what you are looking for.

Many anglers are confused as to which methods work best. Before wasting valuable resources (time and money), consider these three simple, yet highly effective, tuna fishing techniques.

1. Control Your Speed - When fishing for tuna, troll at speeds of 5to 8 miles per hour. Most professionals like to use a typical 'WPattern' while trolling. This pattern consists of 2 long lines held outon each outrigger, 2 shorter lines held out flat and one deep linestraight down the middle. Additionally, it is helpful to display aflashy presentation of multiple lures. The more they splash, sparkleand shine the better. What you want is to trick the tuna into thinkingthat it has stumbled across a panicked school of bait fish. I prefer to use a green lure attached to the long line down the back. Typically, this line will get hit before any of the outside lines.

2.Pay Attention to Nature - Anytime that you see diving birds, payspecial attention. Diving birds typically means that there are schoolsof bait fish nearby. Where there are bait fish, tuna tend to also besome place close. Additionally, large schools of tuna like to travelnear pods of dolphins or sharks. Additionally, many anglers report catching massive yellowfin tuna within sight of whales.

3. Pay Attention to the Season -During the warmer summer months, tuna love to hunt near the surface ofthe water. Feeding tuna are easy to spot on clear summer afternoons asthe water looks like it is being destroyed from beneath. Additionally,tuna like to feed in low light conditions, such as the late afternoon.During the winter months, tuna tend to hunt in deeper waters and aremuch more difficult to find and catch.

Fishing for tuna can be fun if you can get by the expected frustration that accompanies the excitement. Simply following these three tuna fishing techniques will help you catch more tuna. To learn even more advanced techniques, please visit the links found with the resource box below.