[654662]

With all the new rules and regs about using all circles for billfish has anyone developed any quicker ways to rig there doing it the right way?

I can not stand using the floss to rig these with the snells hooks!

not liking it at all but trying to conform myself.

 

[MakoMike]

There are a couple of commercially availabel pin rigs that make rigging a lot quicker.

 

[clementine]

bridle

John from trophy tackle was selling/ sells a neat bridling kit that makes rigging a snap.

 

[MTKrascal]

I think I recently saw an article within the past few months on ways to rig trolling baits for billfish in either Marlin Mag or Saltwater Water Sportsman.

 

[gusto45]

might sound like a stupid question but how many guys are targeting marlin? I have no plans for changing my lures our or changing how I rig bally. My target is tuna and marlin as a bonus. I have managed to release (health) about 20 that I have caught on j hooks

Maybe if I am in a marlin tourney or over in the bahamas but that is it.

 

[MakoMike]

MTKrascal wrote:
I think I recently saw an article within the past few months on ways to rig trolling baits for billfish in either Marlin Mag or Saltwater Water Sportsman.

Current issue of Big Game has an article on rigging live baits.

 

[654662]

gusto,

 

[gusto45]

Sport,

 

[654662]

hahhaa put nothing in there. lol

I meant to say that i am totally with oyu and the j hooks.. but find that when i fish the MA500 and the WMO or any other White marlin tourney the hook up ratio is slightly better as some say.. Also they are not manditory which i do not like but do not mind i guess!

 

[gusto45]

when I use live bait be it for sails, tuna or what ever, I prefer to use a circle hook. It goes without saying that I exclusively use them while chunking up here. I think everything has its time and place.

If you catch a 80 lb white on a small setup, you run the risk of killing the fish no matter what hook you use. Guess that is my point and I am in no way disagreeing with anyone here, YET!

That snap tool looks pretty cool, anything that encourages my lazy nature I'm for it hahahah

 

[654662]

AMEN TO THE LAZINESS!!

Love the laziness myself!

I was going to buy them i got to call john and check that stuff out!

Got to give me time gusto.... i have not posted in a while! got to get back into the swing of things!

 

[goody68]

Sometimes when we're feeling lazy kite fishing with live bluefish instead of using floss for a bridle we just use heavy duty zip ties which we cut to a sharp point...you just run the zip tie through the top of the eye socket and zip tie the hook right to the head of the bluefish...it makes the bluefish go crazy cuz they can feel the zip tie

 

[gusto45]

I just run a rubber band through the eye socket of the blue or bunker and set it up that way, a couple of twists and then back through, np. I skip the kite cause that is more work. Keep the bait alive and you just greatly increased your odds.

 

[drcohen]

Quick Rig hooks

I was at Trophy Tackle the other day. They have a whole display of those Quick Rig cirle hooks, and other heavy duty tuna hooks.

www.tunafishtackle.com

 

[Squeri Boy]

I could be wrong but I believe that this years MA500 and WMO will need circles for dead bait.

This post edited by Squeri Boy 11:14 PM 03/07/2008

 

[654662]

The mid atlantic and the WMO do not allow live bait.. it is dead only and yes circle hooks are manditory for all [email protected]@