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How to: Night jigging for bluefin tuna

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Chasing Pelagics
October 9, 2023

Night jigging for bluefin has been a successful method for catching these fish when they are feeding down deeper at night, and gives you the option to double your opportunities once you've travelled all the way to the tuna, or when they are just not coming up to hit trolled lures. Here's a few tips on how they rig and the lures used overseas, that will absolutely work here in NZ, as proven by young angler Flyn Jack recently.

Check out the action, with Flyn Jack (@Flynjackfishing) landing a bluefin on a jig out of Tauranga. This could really be a game changer in New Zealand during the bluefin run from July to August. Is it time to have a go?

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