To the uneducated, trolling for billfish seems over simplified, as well as rather hopeless. After all, you simply drag a handful of trolling lures behind the boat, cover as much of the vast ocean surface as you possibly can in a day's time and hope to stumble onto a fish or two. But the expert has designed a trolling system with meticulous concern for detail that produces billfish consistently.

The key to trolling system is careful positioning and color selection of the lures. With those two aspects of trolling, you can not only cover all angles involved in billfishing, but stack the deck in your favor as well. Routinely, an angler trolls five lures: two from side outriggers, one from a marlin- tower outrigger and two from "flat" lines at the fighting chair. Positioning of the baits is the most critical part of catching billfish. Through years of experience, we have learned to position our lures in locations where the billfish can best see them and from where they are most likely to attack. To develop a plan of attack, an angler dissects the playing field behind the boat into distinct zones and individual waves. Paying attention to such factors as bow-wave turbulence and propeller wash is crucial to ensuring that an oncoming bill-fish gets a good look at the artificial meal you are offering. (part 2)

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