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John_Madison CT · 03-28-2007, 07:17 AM

For Sharking, when you arrive at your spot, first find your drift direction by zooming in with your GPS. Make a note of what heading you will drift.

Put out a bucket of chum and troll it for at least 1-2 miles in the direction of your expected drift. While doing this, you get all you rods and baits ready.

You will now have a slick set up way ahead of time. This will jump start your day by at least an hour, maybe more.

CaptDom · 03-28-2007, 08:56 AM

Rig your spreader bars to have a HD snap clip that allows you to change your hook bait out. Line the clip up to sit inside the last teasers body....

I have found that by using a much larger chase bait than the hookless teasers on the arms, it simulates a predator trying to hit bait, which drives all pelagics absolutely insane......Change the color too.

CaptDom · 03-28-2007, 09:00 AM

A great tip I got from Cap. Fred Archer is to build yourself a set of "toads" or fender teasers. They actually sell them now with air brush quality paint jobs, already weighted and rigged.....These, deployed in the wash, will bring the BIG eyeballs and BIG sharksand BIG YFTand BIG Albies too......The Big eyes have fallen prey to this many a time, due to their propensity to like skipjacks to eat.....seeing what looks like 2 skippies busily chasing your bait ball spread and not paying attention will drive them from the depths to your boat in warp speed, where they usually crash everything in the spread with murderous zeal......

Tailgunner · 03-28-2007, 09:05 AM

I had huge success catching Bonito the last two years by trolling two red head swimming lures. These are the large Bomber type with a red head and a white body. I trolled at about 6mph with around 100 yards of line out. Despite nothing showing on the surface, I managed to bring in a number of good sized Bonito. In one case, I got 2 within 10 minutes of each other before I had even finished setting the lines from the first catch.

old mud · 03-28-2007, 10:39 AM

When fishing Bluefins sometimes they will come up and check out the bait only to turn and go back down. I usually fish baits at 15, 20, 25, and 30 or more fathoms. when I mark fish that turn, I drop my chum bag To general depth pull up sharply and release chum. This has worked and will usually bring the fish back for feed and possibly you're bait. it is a piece of old backing ,50 fathom 200# dacron tied to a 4# tuna bomb.(piece of lead) drop this into an old plastic bread bag and tie off above weights , now put 3 or 4 handfulls of chum in the bag and give it a twist at the top to hold it tight. drop it in and free fall it to desired depth. Watch sounder or tie knots at desired depths.

When desired depth is reached, pull sharply a couple of times and bag will turn inside out and dump chum. Whole process takes about 1 min.
ps. water pressure will hold bag tight to chum untill pulled

Don

MakoMike · 03-28-2007, 04:06 PM

Most useful thing you can have on a boat, especially offshore. You cna use them for a million things from stopping rigger halyards from slipping to keping flat lines in place and a zillion other things.

ubettcha13 · 03-28-2007, 04:18 PM

Fish school to the left When you get bite turn 30 degrees to the left This will help to load the spread and clear the fish on out of the spread so you can keep fishing

Pt.Jude Joe · 03-28-2007, 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by CaptDom

Take 5 or 6 sheets of newspaper, and lay them flat on the surface of the water, in areas where you have trolled mahi, but have no weed lines or pot balls on the edge.... or especially when you head off the 100 fathom line towards the deep up here. Do this many times in one area, mark your GPS, and come back after your troll session later in the day...... has to be light wind day, but the paper will eventually dissolve and not pollute, and you will find that sometimes not only a mahi has investigated......

Make sure the FISHING REPORT is not in any of the newspapers you lay out!

Noflukequeen · 03-28-2007, 06:16 PM

Hi everyone and Happy Spring!! Well won't be long now..it's been a long Winter and I for one can't wait to be out on the Sound in a new boat this year equipped with a GPS, fishfinder and even a porta-potty! Never had any of those and am upgrading from tiller steering to a real steering wheel to boot...boy am I excited!!! We're gonna nail'em this year and hopefully I can change my name to FLUKEQUEEN!!!!

CaptDom · 03-28-2007, 06:34 PM

When the longfin are very predominant, try trolling one really big lue right in the middle of the spread. This will often entice the larger, small pods of YFT which are known to sometimes mix into the schools of Albies. We have had some majorly big YFT crash that lure after the other 4 or 5 lines are already filled with penguins....

When one albie jumps the spread, the rest usually follow. If you slow down or speed up, you usually fill the spread, but try keeping the boat at speed for a ways, to see if a biggun grabs the huge lure you have out.

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