Raising Kingfish with the DTX Minnow

We call it ‘DTX Cheat Mode’

When the fishing gets a bit slow, we’ve found the best way to find a school of Kingfish is to throw a couple of DTX Minnows out the back and troll over areas where you know they like to hang out. This allows to cover a lot of ground quickly, and the noise/disturbance caused by the props & boat will raise any fish hiding deeper down in the water column, and 95% of the time, they will go for one of the DTX’s being trolled behind. Once you’ve got a bite, stop the boat and cast as many top-water lures out as you can. With any luck, you've raised a school of hyped up Kingfish and they’re at the surface ready to go. The trick here is to have the top-water rods ready to fly as soon as that DTX gets hit.

We’ve used this method countless times on our charter operation to keep the action going when the fishing’s slowed, and it almost always results in a hook-up for every lure that hits the water.