The Best Strategies for Catching Delicious, Wide-Ranging Blackfin Tuna

For Central Florida anglers, tuna fishing and crossing the Gulf Stream are nearly synonymous, yet we have a tuna (other than bonito) that can be targeted in nearer waters on the west side of the stream; the blackfin. Many of us have sojourned to the Keys and know how the Islamorada Hump consistently holds schools of blackfin and skipjack. In the 1990s, I would tow my boat down a few times a year and, through trial and error, discovered reliable ways to catch tuna on the Hump. Halfway up the state, however, we do not have a singular, reliable site to concentrate on blackfin. They are here, nonetheless.

Outside of the Keys, blackfin tunas are caught primarily by trolling or chunking....

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