I also love sight casting SureCatch Knights at pods of hungry longtail tuna . Nothing beats watching a big bolting bluefin annihilate one of these lures with a classic top water strike . These tuna often feed close to the surface so it ’ s best to work on the top half of the water column . I usually use a medium paced retrieve and keep my lure skipping across the water like a fleeing baitfish .
Sight-casting longtails from an elevated platform is another exciting
Longtail Tuna
way of catching these surface cruising gamefish . Longtails can easily be seen with a good pair of polarised glasses , and they look like black missiles charging through the water . When longtails are feeding close to shore you will often see large schools of garfish getting chased around the rocks . When you see this feeding frenzy erupt , cast your lure right in amongst the chaos . Some of the best platforms for spinning up longtails include the Catwalk at 1770 and the Iluka Breakwall in northern NSW .
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