|
The White Marlin is an
Atlantic billfish and is considered to be one of the
greatest light tackle
fish. It will tear through a trolling spread and begin a
"grey-hounding" leap extravaganza.
Trolling is the usual fishing method. The white seldom
exceeds 100 pounds making it a great 20-pound light tackle
test. Being a blue water fish, the white feeds throughout
the water column. This is
evident by its meals of squid and eels in many fish. They
also feed on ballyhoo, flying fish and other small
baitfish.
Using
live eels with a small colored skirt, pink, green or blue,
is often over looked. Whites love eels. Live Ballyhoo, small
Mullet and Flying Fish are also a wonderful choice. 30
pound trolling outfits are perfect for the whites but 50-pound tackle is
usually used in case tuna deicide to have a bite to
eat.
If you
are adventurous and would like to try you hand at the
bait-and-switch method,
choose a fly rod between 12 and 15 wt with a billfish class
fly reel and hold on. |
