Live Bait Trolling Charter in Sicily

One of the best and most adrenaline-pumping activities in Mediterranean sea is to go fishing with a live bait trolling charter in Sicily.

This technique must be practiced while on board of a boat, and it requires trolling a live fish as bait, in order to provide you with the opportunity of facing the major predatory fishes in the whole Mediterranean sea.

Amberjacks, Mediterranean Dentex, Groupers, and Bluefin Tuna are common preys, but when live bait trolling it is possible to catch almost every predator. This reason alone is enough to place live bait trolling among the Top 5 Fishing Techniques in Sicily.

The Live Bait Trolling Charter in Sicily is performed using the best live baits in the Mediterranean, like squids, cuttlefishes, or mackerels, and keeping them alive until the fishing hot-spots are reached. Once ready and on-the-spot the live fishes are baited employing special techniques and being very careful, in order to keep them alive and not to influence their natural swim too much.

Before putting the bait back into the water it is equipped with an adequate weight, then you can slowly troll in a bathymetric range that goes from -20 meters to -70 meters, often in presence of shoals, shallow banks, ship wreckage or gaps in the bathymetric profile (numerous along the Sicilian shores).

By employing technical equipment like a sonar and a GPS the Fishing Charter in Sicily starts its journey in well-known hot-spots, looking for any trace of school of small fishes and game fish feeding on them. Once the predatory fishes are located it is time to choose and adopt the best strategy to make said fishes take the bait, while also being ready to grip the fishing rod. The bait’s vibration and natural movements are enough to deceive the predators. And yet specific live bait trolling maneuvers can be decisive even when fishes seem apathetic.

It’s when the predator is about to take the bait that the adrenaline pumps into your system. When it comes to that a cold-blooded resolve is key. Wait for it a couple more seconds. The bait must be swallowed whole before striking vigorously and starting the “fight”…

What happens next cannot be described, it’s pure adrenaline! Some of these fights take place down to a 30-meters depth, and the predatory fish can retain its strength up to the very end. If you catch a Blue Fin Tuna the fight could go on for hours.

A boat fishing session, practicing The Live Bait Trolling Charter in Sicily technique is a good alternative to the Deep Sea Fishing Charter in Sicily. It is also possible to catch fishes like White Grouper, Doggy Groper, Swordfish, Red porgy, Dolphin fish, Little tunny, Bonito, Blue Runner and the Mediterranean Barracuda, which are generally found while fishing near the shores with artificial baits and different techniques. Less common in Deep sea trolling, the Mediterranean spearfish (the so-called “Mediterranean Marlin”).

WildSicily and SicilyFishing.com are now able -after years of practice and studies in the whole Sicilian and Mediterranean region- to provide you with some of the best fishing charter services in the Mediterranean sea.

Andrea Giardina

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Live Bait Trolling Charter in Sicily

One of the best and most adrenaline-pumping activities in Mediterranean sea is to go fishing with a live bait trolling charter in Sicily.

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