Testing Bar Video

[Fred Archer]

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Wow! It worked! I apologize for the quality - we are new at this game. I don't apologize for the music, which I dedicate to all of the wonderful Mexican fishermen who I was blessed to have known in my years in Cabo and who I am proud to still have as amigos to this day. Y no te valla sin ellos, compa's!

Brandon Piersant is producing these tapes for us. He is top notch, so they are bound to get a lot better. 'Course, I'm lovin' what I'm seeing now.

What we have here are two of our Little Meatball SuperBars, both "armed" with chasebaits with hooks in them (you can see them if you look hard). I am trying my best to get them to tangle. I couldn't. And this went on for a lot longer than the video that you are seeing. You could never even dream of doing this with conventional spreaderbars or even regular single lures, not for a second or two, let alone for ten or fifteen minutes. I think that you can see from the video that I am sincerely trying to get those bars to tangle, even to the point of jumping one on top of the other, over and over again. I swear to you, it did not happen even once.

Some out there believe that spreaderbars are a tangle nightmare, just waiting to happen. They are, but t'ain't so when it comes to SuperBars and you are seeing the proof, right here and now!

I hope that you are also seeing the fantastic fish-raising potential of whole schools of bait, packed together in panic formations. Now just imagine what happens when the albies or yellowfins, or yellowtails or dorados are on tiny bait, like they so often are, and I run a densely packed, 8 Little Meatball spread of 168 of the exact same size bait as they are feeding on over them, with a Toad Teaser under them, darting all over the place (that video is coming too).

Eight lines too many for you? Okay, how about 4, for 84 pieces of artificial chum back there versus the four little lures you might be trolling?

SuperBars...their time has come on the west coast!

[Double Z]

Nice Fred. I'm still waiting to try the mini ones I got from you. I might have to try a couple of the larger ones if/when these pay off.

[Luhr'd Away]

It no worky for me.

[Seelicious]

Originally Posted by Luhr'd Away

It no worky for me.

The video or the bars?

[cold waters]

OK so why dont they tangle?

[pargon]

cream rinse

[UnReel]

Nice Fred , I kept waiting for a blowup on one of them though !!!.
Got my two FA meatball bars and the two new mini bars ready and waiting for the offshore bite to start. Bring it on !!!!!

[cold waters]

cream rinse is that some sort of joke

[Fred Archer]

Cold Waters,

You know, that's a great question with a long and complicated answer. As simple as they look, it took me many years of experimenting and tweaking to get bars that would run like that and not tangle. If I hadn't been fishing off of my own boat down in Cabo almost every day, seeing what the latest revision that I had modified the night before did and, more importantly, what the fish thought about it, they never would have evolved into what they are today.

Other than that, the short version of why they don't tangle is a combination of very important factors that involve bar material, width, weight, diameter and temper (flexivity), plus leader weights and lengths, teaser types, where they are positioned and whether beads or different sized sinkers are used in the teasers and on which ones (this isn't the same for each teaser on a given bar), the style and weight of the chasebait and more.

The bottom line is, it all adds up to what you see in the video - non- tangling that you couldn't even come close to achieving with any other bar or single lure. You can see that in the video. No trickery (right down to them having hooks in the chasebaits, which you can see clearly behind the bars), no false claims, just the truth, right there where you can see it for yourself.

And do they work? Are you kidding me? If you can look at just those two bars and not imagine what 6 or in our case 8 of them darting around in the best spots in your spread, or like we run them, very close together would do, well, you'll just have to stay tuned.

There is no better trolling lure, and that's all there is to it. Load that pattern up with them, don't stop the boat when the school comes and the shit hits the fan - and they will all be surface strikes - and you'll see what I mean...Goodgoshamighty!

Unreel...Meatballs short, smaller bars long. When you get around the fish, don't take your eyes off the bars...you don't want to miss those incredible bombing attacks! If they start boiling on and not hitting the bars, or actually start jumping into the teasers (you will snag some this way. Snagged fish mean long fights that you don't want to get involved in), that means that they aren't feeding anymore. That's the time to hook up a six or nine inch chasebait that looks like a little predator muscling in on the tunas' territory and chow and you will catch some of those non-feeders when they try to kill, not eat the chasebait. If the marlin are around when you do this, watch out! They LOVE bars and hollow squids provide THE best hookup and landing ratios on them because they "squish", just like a real bait or squid does when they grab it. All that is left then is a hook. You know what happens when you come tight on THAT, right?

Picts...
Comparing a regular marlin lure with a hollow squid.

A nine inch hollow squid, pro rigged with a circle hook, the only kind of hook that I personally have used on bars for well over ten years.

What happens when a marlin bites down on a hollow squid chasebait - this one with a J hook in it.

Watch for this photo in the next issue of Big Game Journal.

[UnReel]

thanks for the tips Fredd .

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