The outfit
- Rod
- 5.5–6 ft 30 lb class trolling rod
- Reel
- 30 lb class lever-drag conventional reel
- Line
- 30–50 lb mono
- Leader
- 6–8 ft of 40–60 lb mono (80 lb for big bulls); 60–90 lb wire for kingfish and wahoo
- Hooks
- 6/0–7/0 on rigged ballyhoo; 3/0–5/0 on pitch baits
- Weights
- 1–3 oz trolling leads when you want the bait down
- Keep a spinning rod rigged with a pitch bait for when a school of mahi follows a hooked fish to the boat.
Bait to pair it with
- Pilchards (scaled sardines) · live
- Rigged ballyhoo · dead
- Bonito and sardine chunks · cut
- Bucktail jigs · artificial
- Trolling skirts, feathers and plugs · artificial