Sail Fish Luring Technique

This Sport Fishing video from Dan Hernandez shows you how to lure sail fish to the boat.

We’ll show you how we're fishing for sail fish right now. We're still in that same area, 35-40 miles off shore. And what we're doing is basically trolling. On the out rigger, we have this rod here, it’s got a balihut all rigged up, trollied out there. On this line, the outside line is a teaser, that's the closest line to the boat that we have. And what that is, is a big lure, more like a marlin lure but it doesn’t have any hooks on it. And the reason for that is, it just lets the fish come up and bite it. Get excited, then we’ll slide back the bait on it. And then we have one more trolley rod right here, and this rod is in the middle. It’s a second bait that’s out, first bait out on the water and it’s actually in the middle of the fishing area that we're fishing. Now like I said, we have a fish come up on this rod, it doesn’t want the bait or comes up on the teaser. Then what we’ll do is we’ll switch to this. This is our drop back rod. It’s got a small International on there, 40 pound, I'm sorry, 30 pound test super silver thread with 100 pound leader and then a balihut. So a fish comes up, he bites the teaser. He's coming towards the boat, he's all excited, then I just go ahead and drop this back. Feed it right to the fish and go from there. And it’s really important that fish today don’t seem to be extremely aggressive. So when we drop back the bait, we have to let it swallow it, turn with it, run, have some confidence that it ate it a little bit before we set the hook. Normally this big fish, once they engulf it, you just set the hook. They have no hands, no place for the bait to go but down in their mouth. But for some reason today, I don’t know if it’s all this weather we got and a couple of rain showers already this morning. The fish are being more touchy. They're not real aggressive. So we're having a bit more patient with them. And there's lots of fish here. Part of the adventure to come down in Guatemala, get out here and you can see around us, there's not another boat around us. Unbelievable. All of Guatemala, this part of the ocean today, what we heard there's only two other boats out in the water that are sport fishing. So it’s remarkably, country like this, so many fish and so very little fishing pressure. Alright, let's see if we can get one here. Birds are starting to get started.