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Trolling Tactics ( 2 ) You must use the different transom waves behind the boat to position your lures. The best way to identify a wave is to run your boat on plane and pull the power back slowly. As the boat begins to settle, you'll see a wave roll out from under the transom. That is wave No.1 and about 20 feet behind it, you will see wave No.2. I identify the position of eight waves behind the boat when positioning my lures. Each boat will have a distinctive pattern of waves, but 20 feet is a good estimate of the distance between the peaks of the waves at 8 to 9 knots, which is a good speed for marlin lures. In positioning the trolling lures, uses the face of the wave and spreads five baits in the first eight waves. The situates the port-side flat line (from the fighting chair) bait on wave No. 3, the closest lure to the boat. The other flat line (starboard) is placed on the face of wave No.4. The port-side outrigger lure is trolled with wave No. 5, while the opposite outrigger line sits on wave No.6. The shotgun line (from the marlin tower outrigger), the longest line, is positioned along wave No.8. To better cover yourself, I've found that you should have both a long and short flat line, as well as a long and short outrigger line. That works much better than just running both lines (either the flat line or outrigger line) on the same wave. This is much more productive. The shotgun line is "safety valve" lure, which is fished farthest from the boat. Because it is fished about 160 feet behind the boat, uses Dacron line instead of monofilament to eliminate the stretch and a smaller lure (which is easier to troll on the surface of the water than a normal-size marlin bait at that distance).  The long-range shotgun bait has bailed, out on countless occasions when marlin were reluctant to come closer to the boat and take the other lures. It is a fact that some boats generate a high-frequency beam pattern that radiates through the water and can be detected by billfish. This can be caused by several factors such as a squeaky cutlass bearing in the prop shaft or a loose baffle inside the mufflers. A lot of times, a marlin will approach the boat and maybe even target a bait, but suddenly he feels that high frequency and it deters him from getting closer to the boat. He will then skirt that high-frequency vibration zone and swim behind it and, hopefully, spot the lure on that long shotgun line.There is no way for a boat owner to measure the vibration pattern emitted by his boat, but he should be aware that it can play a role in causing billfish to spook near the transom. And he should look for any trend in which the fish seem to be hitting only the long-line lures. That is a signal to move all the lures farther back from the boat. (part 1) « Home
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