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Yellowtail

Explore the latest news on yellowtail fishing on the Melton Tackle blog, featuring tips, tactics, hotspots, gear advice, and angler insights.

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Summertime Yellowtail Fishing in Southern California

Across North America, you'll find regions that have their bread-and-butter gamefish. The Northeast has Striped Bass, the Southeast has Cobia, the Gulf has Redfish, the Northwest has Salmon, and for us in the Southwest, our bread-and-butter target species would have to be Yellowtail.

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Wintertime Yellowtail on Artificials

Wintertime fishing in Southern California is a secret society. Yet the fishing can be quite good due to aggregations of bait fish due to upwelling. Because each one of these species during this time of year takes a little bit of specializing, we’ll be focusing on targeting wintertime yellowtail.