Hey everybody, welcome to How To Tuesday, brought to you by Danco. This time of the year,

tons of people are headed down to the Florida Keys or to Louisiana or Texas to try to catch

the biggest fish of their life. And as a fishing guide, what I do more than anything else is teach

people how to catch a larger fish on light tackle. And what you have to do is you have

to use a light drag because if you try to use the reel like a winch, you have to set the drag so

tightly that if the fish surges and tries to go away, it'll break the line. So in order to catch a

really big fish on really like tackle, you have to learn how to pump and wind is the technique. That's what it's called. You pump the rod up with your hand on the spool of the reel, and then you wind as you go down. And if you go out with your fishing guide for the first time, you hook a big fish and you're just winding against the drag it drives them completely insane so this video and this podcast is designed to try

to help you to learn how to do this technique i was at bahia honda and i caught a large fish

i didn't know exactly what it was but I was sure it wasn't a tarpen.

So I thought this is a great opportunity to kind of coach you through, pumping the rod up and reeling as you go down to catch a very large fish on very light tackle.

Turns out it was a nurse shark.

I do know that a nurse shark is not a great fish.

We were out there fishing for tarpun, and this was a good opportunity to illustrate the pump-up,

reel-down technique. That's what we're trying to do today, to try to teach you how to do that.

If you are a seasoned angler, you already know how to do this.

But maybe you'll pick up a couple of tips on how I've learned to communicate that to my

customers who do not know that. If you are a beginning angler, this is one of the most important

things that you can learn as you start to explore saltwater fishing and catching larger fish on light tackle.

So I hope you learn something.

And here we go.

All right, we're getting a bite here.

What we're going to go over is how to set the hook on a fish, on a big fish like this in saltwater.

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