What catches more Tuna?

[TeamLithics]

Capt. Mike,
Tell me more about the balloon rig. I've never seen or heard of it.

[Captain Michael Buffington]

really simple. The doing takes practice. Just take a live bait of lots of different sizes and hook it like on a kite through the shoulder between the head and dorsal fin. Then rubber band or ballooon clip a 27"-36" balloon with the correct amount of helium for that bait and attatch it depending on wind speed between 15'-20' on the mainline so that the bait skips and digs at the surface and if you see fish way off you just freespool it to them. IT IS ABSOLUTELY DEADLY. When they are on small flyers I will rubber band rig one and send it out in search of cow. The balloon in 0 wind is the "MASTER OF THE PASTURE".

Mike

[Henrique38]

The number one issue with catching tuna (or any other fish) is location. You have to be where the fish are. Invest your time in getting good information and/or searching out structure that may be holding fish. If the fish aren't there, you're not going to catch squat. Location is #1, everything else is relative.

[Captain Fred Archer]

True, Henriques...so very true.

The most important and most violated rule in all of fishing.

That and, nobody's fishing for them, those who are aren't on them, so nobody's catching them, so....."They ain't here yet." That's the accursed self-fulfilling prophecy that afflicts far too many fishermen.

PLEASE DON'T BE FOOLED BY PRETENDERS...THERE IS ONLY ONE REAL DEAL...