Triple tail fish are one of the finest eating fish in the sea and one of the more elusive. Couple that with the amount of saltwater fishing pressure they receive when they show up, trying to stack a few in your cooler becomes a real challenge. There is a solution. Make you own FADs and attract triple tail fish to your own private fishing spot. Triple tail fish or blackfish are very structure oriented. That is why you always find them around channel markets, pilings, crab trap lines and buoys. So, if you can make your own FADs and place them adjacent to other known tripletail holding areas, you can attract your own fish. This makes fishing so mush easier. Capt. William Toney will show you how to make FADs for triple tail fish with readily available rope, blocks, crab buoys and biodegradable ingredients. This is easy and works well. At the end of the migration, you just pull the blocks up, so as not to leave anything in the ocean.
How to Make FADs for Triple Tail Fish
(00:50:29)The triple tail fish or blackfish is one of the finest eating fish swimming in the ocean. Tripletail are solitary usually, but will school up. These tasty fish comes and go with the seasons, as they migrate north and south on Florida's west coast or east and west in the northern Gulf of Mexico. So, when they are moving through your area of the Gulf, they are hit or miss in small quantities. Aside from not being that plentiful, if there is a spot where they hold, you better bet a lot of other fishermen know about it and are going to hammer it out. The spots where you find them are well known and easy to find. This funny looking fish love the hang around pilings, crab buoys or other similar structure. How obvious and easy to run a buoy line or a series of pilings or channel markers looking for triples hanging out. This makes them susceptible to easy plundering. With this fist come, first serve approach to catching triples, you may want to have a plan B. And, a good plan B that could become your plan A. The solution to this problem is to build and deploy your own tripletail FAD of fish aggregating device. It is simple. We are going to show how to build a FAD for triple tail, in a few easy steps. This In The Spread fishing video features fourth generation Homosassa, Florida fishing guide Captain William Toney showing you how he targets blackfish and the step by step way he builds quick environmentally friendly FADs to cultivate his own secret fishing spots. Heavy blocks, rope, palm fronds and crab buoys or a similar float is all that is needed. William will show you how he assembles the aggregator and deploys them for maximum convenient yield. This way, you have a much better shot at pressure free fish. Fishing for tripletail is not that difficult, especially when you have a few honey holes. They cannot resist live shrimp. Boom. There you go. What inshore fishing species can? William Toney will show you how to hook a live shrimp or fresh shrimp for light current and then how to rig a shrimp on a jig head for strong current to keep the baits down in the strike zone. That can be the only real challenge. Easy, right? You will also learn how William makes his bait rig. What line, leader, cork, hooks, jig heads does he use. You will see. Watch some of Capt. William Toney's other fishing videos in our [redfish](https://inthespread.com/saltwater/redfish), [snook](https://inthespread.com/saltwater/snook) and [sea trout](https://inthespread.com/saltwater/sea-trout) sections. To fish with Capt. Toney, visit [Homosassa Inshore Fishing](http://www.homosassainshorefishing.com)
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Captain William Toney
Captain William Toney, a Homosassa, Florida native, is a revered fourth-generation fishing guide who blends ancestral wisdom with modern techniques to deliver unparalleled fishing experiences. As the owner and operator of Homosassa Inshore Fishing, his expertise spans a wide variety of fish species such as Red Fish, Sea Trout, Mangrove Snapper and Snook, among others. His customized 23' Tremblay Flats Boat, powered by Mercury Outboards, is a testament to his commitment to providing top-notch fishing experiences.
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