60 Minutes in Complete Darkness with a Large Southern Bluefin Tuna — Full Night Jigging Tutorial

60 minutes on the same fish. In complete darkness. This is what night jigging for Southern Bluefin Tuna actually looks like. We'd spent six hours trolling and had nothing to show for it. The moment the sun went down we switched to jigging — and that changed everything. In this video we walk you through the complete night jigging system: how to find fish on the sounder after dark, the exact gear to run, which jigs work at night and why, how to pitch and count depth, and the part no one else covers — how to position the boat to help your angler win a long fight against one of the most powerful fish in the ocean. Southern Bluefin Tuna are not forgiving. These fish run hundreds of metres, change direction without warning, and have the stamina to keep fighting long after you think they're beaten. We lost two fish in this session. We'll show you exactly what happened both times — and why landing even one of these animals after a one-hour night battle is something you don't forget. Over two nights of jigging the boys went 6 for 3 the first night and 6 for 1 on the second night. Our biggest lesson? - let them run and be careful not to over load your line with drag, heavy drag just makes them more angry! We don't cut away when things go wrong. That's the reality of chasing Southern Bluefin Tuna at night — and it's worth every second. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro — Night Jigging Action 0:26 What Is Night Jigging for Bluefin Tuna? 0:59 Finding the Fish — Reading the Sounder at Night 2:58 Gear Setup — Rod, Reel & Drag 3:30 Jig Selection — Lightning Rods & Night Jigging Tackle 5:26 The Drop — Pitching the Jig, Counting Depth & Technique 7:37 Fish On! — The Fight Begins 12:03 Heartbreak — Lost Fish & What We Think Went Wrong 12:52 Perfect Sounder Returns — What You're Looking For 13:16 Back On — Second Fish Hooked 14:55 Boat Positioning — Working the Boat to Land a Big Fish 17:20 Fish Boated After a 1-Hour Fight! 18:05 Angler Wrap-Up — Lessons & Key Takeaways 18:29 Round Two — Nick on the Jig 21:33 Outro — The Reality of Chasing Southern Bluefin ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ GEAR USED IN THIS VIDEO Rod: Shimano Grappler Type J B538 (Carbon) Reel: Shimano Talica 12 — 300m PE8 braid Leader: 100lb fluorocarbon Drag: 12kg Jigs: Glowbite Lightning Rod lure (with integrated flashing light) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FOLLOW GET THE NET Instagram: @getthenet_nz Facebook: Get The Net_NZ TikTok: @getthenet_nz 🔔 Subscribe and hit the bell so you don't miss the next one.