My fishing strategy:
1. be where the fish are
2. use the correct lure

My fishing tactics:
1. hope the fish are somewhere along the route I'm traveling
2. take wild-ass guesses as to what lures they might prefer

The first year or so out cruising, we caught fish constantly using anything for a lure. In fact, I lost so many lures catching so many fish that I was making them out of hooks, wine corks and bits of rubber and still catching them. I thought I had been born with professional skills. Then everything went cold and it has been 12-18 months with no bites.

So, if it helps, the dorado, tuna and wahoo that got away were caught on a green squid lure with a small lead weight in the head. The wahoo in the picture was caught on a rubber ballyhoo with a hook in it and a weight connected ~5' ahead of it to keep it in the water. The fishing line is 80# monofilament with 200# leaders on the lures because I believe in dragging them to their deaths while we run around like keystone cops crash jibing trying to get the boat slowed down, tripping on things in the way, putting my gloves on the wrong hands, falling into each other with sharp gaffs in our hands, making sure the other fishing line gets inextricably tangled with the one that has the fish, and systematically and professionally whacking my head on the bimini as I step up to man the pole (I never, NEVER hit my head there any other time and don't see how it is even possible, but in fish-space, that bimini is 6" lower than in normal-space).

So if you and your wife practice the above, I'm sure you will eventually get as randomly lucky as us.

Mark