Though this trip is designed for jigging and popping, I don't discourage to use baits from time to time as the most important thing is to have a fun together.
There are a few guy who never caught tuna before. I'll do everything for them to fight a few tuna on the trip.
However I am pretty confident tuna will respond to jigs and poppers.
Occasionally they just ignore artificial lures, but they eventually hit jigs and poppers. As this trip is not for meat fishing, many guys will stay on jigging and popping no matter what the results are and they intend to release their catches though I am not discouraging to keep their catches.
We have many success on the East Coast last year by jigging tuna when we marked them in certain depth daytime. Capt suggested that we could catch tuna daytime in Green Canyon and we are going to try jigging tuna daytime if the opportunities come.