The most common ports of call for adventurous anglers crossing the Gulf Stream are West End and Lucaya on Grand Bahama Island, which provide relatively easy access to popular spots like The Corner and Northwest Providence Channel.

Even though these structures are so far below, they actually play a huge role in the entire food chain by creating powerful upwellings that trigger an extensive web of life. Finding these powerful predators is all about zeroing in on submerged pinnacles and canyons often thousands of feet below the surface. Yellowfin tuna are highly migratory pelagic predators that require deep, nutrient-rich water. During these off hours your time is best spent deep dropping, fishing the reef or simply enjoying the island lifestyle by lounging next to the pool with ice-cold Kalik in hand.Īnother key factor is location. During the brightest hours of the day when surface temps peak, tuna typically hunt deep in the trenches. Still, experience says target tuna from sunrise to mid-morning and from late afternoon until sundown. This means the early morning and late afternoon hours when the sun is closest to the horizon lean the odds in our favor, but don’t discount an explosive midday bite, which has just as much to do with the presence of forage as it does with how high the sun is in the sky. Timing is not only key, with mid-April through August primetime, but also daily, as we all know tuna are extremely sensitive to light. …if you know anything about tuna fishing in The Bahamas, success is just as much about what’s flying in the sky as it is about what’s swimming below the surface. Florida fishermen who lack the ability or resources to black out their baitwells will be happy to know that by simply fine-tuning the approach, trolling can also be an extremely effective technique for taking tuna in the tropical waters surrounding the islands. Pulling a spread of fake baits is a common approach along much of the Eastern Seaboard, including in the rich waters off the Carolina coast and in the New England canyons where crews are accustomed to trolling chaotic 10 and 12 line spreads with as many as half of a dozen spreader bars and daisy chains in the mix. Seasoned offshore vets have been racking up impressive yellowfin numbers on the troll for decades.

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