Captain Fred Archers Offshore Perspective Thread, Skyrocketing yellowfin from Spreaderbar Bible! in Spotlight; Check these shots from The Spreaderbar Bible out. These big yellowfin are chasing squid up to the top and blasting ...
Check these shots from The Spreaderbar Bible out. These big yellowfin are chasing squid up to the top and blasting out of the water when they nail one. This is very common behavior for tuna on squid, which do very little jumping, so if you see skyrocketers like these and no flyers flying, they're on the squid...put the bars out!
Immmmmm, thats a very pretty sight 1st of the Tuna are running way out wide down in New Zealand , a bit too far out wide for most ( about 100nm ) but a few northerly blows will have the closer to our hooks hopefully in the next couple of weeks:
Nice pics Fred,I just cleaned A bunch of tuna full of squid and chunks.The tuna wern't flying out of the water in the area we fished.Maybe the volume of squid wasn't there for the air show but I'm hearing what your saying about the spreader bars and maybe a single squid with a hook in it a few feet back.Just so I don't have to reel in the bar.Me and Choate are trying for the big one.I really like your ideas.Matt
The middle picture is my favorite offshore bar for tuna and all other pelagics. It only weighs 1 1/4 ounce. You don't even know that it's there and neither do the fish. Teasers are 4 1/4" and the chasebait is 8 1/2". It ain't a spreaderbar, it's a SuperBar. Big difference. Hell, even a little girl can reel one of these puppies in!
And here's one for when they're eating big baits. Twenty inches. Also easy to reel in.
Some nice tunas and the SuperBar that caught them.
Thanks for the reply Fred,those look awsome and easy too reel in.I have been putting a big cedar plug behind a spreader bar when we are traveling between spots, but I like the compact feel of your setup.If I could pry my self away from the chunk bucket long enough to troll them I would.I have been fishing the bank for three seasons and this chunk thing is like taking candy from a baby,as long as you don't break the chian of chunks heading down its a no brainer.I'm sure you know what I'm talking about.I don't even care if we have live bait anymore,as long as we have plenty of fresh chunks its game on.Thanks again ,Matt.
I don't have to tell you about how they work, do I? You have been there and done that and know how bad azzed the bars and Spiders are, don'tcha?
Chris and David tell me that the tunas are wide, wide open right now and eating little squid. They've got the Little Meatballs rockin' down there. When the tunas are on the little squid (like down here too most of the time), you simply can't beat 'em! Why do eighty or more little, exact squid immitations raise whole schools of tuna, instead of maybe one or two at a time, like when you troll little, single lures? Gee, I dunno. Why would that be? Something like brailing a huge amount of live chum (and not the right kind at that in the case of the live) but matching the hatch too and having that big brails of "bait" follow right where you want them in your spread all day - fast, slow, or in between with no bird bites, no picked baits, no chum running away from where you brailed it, no rolled bait, no chucking it at the end of the day. Hmm. That's what the call a "no brainer", isn't it? Or is the other way around? Ya think?
Get Chris to steam or broil up some of those stone crabs they have down there. Oh Lord, soooo good!
Have a great trip, Vern...and send pictures! And leave my wahoos alone!
Tell Chris I said to fish some little jigs along the sand and catch some of those big pompano on 'em. Stone crabs and pompano? Mercy!
I would really like to pick a copy up. I haven't heard back from Bob on the prices and info for the latest products. Is everything ok? I'm sure he is just very busy. I will send him another e-mail.
Please PM me with your email and I will get the catalogs out to you. Bob has nothing whatsoever to do with me or my business anymore, other than the money he stole from me for every book and lure that he sold of mine of years.
1st of the Tuna are running way out wide down in New Zealand , a bit too far out wide for most ( about 100nm ) but a few northerly blows will have the closer to our hooks hopefully in the next couple of weeks:
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