It’s a well known FACT that Tuna can be a very “line shy” fish and we’ve personally experienced this many times… first hand.

One particular time was the first time my wife ever came to the Canyon with us. We were anchored up for the night and we were reading the bait and the Tuna on the machine but couldn’t get a bite. We started to slowly scale down our Flourocarbon Leaders from 80lb down to 60lb… down to 50lb… down to 40lb…. down to 30lb…. FISH ON. Ended up with 11 Yellowfin’s up to around 75 pounds that night… all on 30 lb Flouro leaders. Had to back the drags off a bit and fight them gently but that’s what did the trick!

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