How to YOYO fish for yellowtail

[Fjold]

YOYO fishing is fun but Flylining a live sardine to boiling YT or tuna is just a blast

I like throwing surface iron at boils!

Depends on what reel, the newest high speed reels If you whined too fast the jig will just Spin. Try fast, slow see what they want, also listed to the captain on what depth the fish are. Right now the yellows are feeding on squids and red crab.

I'm showing my age, I still have a yellowtail special built on a Penn 4/0.

[Shoot-it]

whats surface Iron?

[kblack583]

whats surface Iron?

Lighter iron designed to swim with a nice side to side action on surface with a slower retrieve than a standard jig.

[flypops]

Yes. High speed reels are great for Yo-Yo fishing.

[dskit]

And once you get a strike don't stop reeling until you get drag ripped off, then set the hook. I was jigging blue-fin years ago and had my very stiff rod pointing straight down and thought it was set, but it got spit out.

[bambklr]

Founding member of "The Iron Gang" on the Polaris Supreme.

My wife and I spent our HoneyMoon trip on that boat

[Fjold]

My wife and I spent our HoneyMoon trip on that boat

I spent my 25th wedding anniversary on a 10 day trip on the Q-105.



Wifezilla stayed at home so it was a great trip.

[bambklr]

I spent my 25th wedding anniversary on a 10 day trip on the Q-105.



Wifezilla stayed at home so it was a great trip.

Well you still have be beat with 25 years but I took my wife for 7 days on the Royal Polaris for a 10 yr. anniversary trip
Lots of big YT and Wahoo but no tuna for us and very few tuna for the boat. That was in June 2014

[castgold]

6' to 7.5' rod would be my preference for yoyo, 40# line with a palomar on the terminal end, Salas 6x or 6x jr in non-chrome finish (blue/white, scrambled egg, mint, bird poop, dorado), or a 130gr chartreuse flatfall.

Drop it down and crank up fast, and keep your finger on trigger in case you get picked up on the drop.

[Fjold]

I use a stiff, 7' rod for jig fishing.

Here I am hard at work on the Q-105