Favourite Trolling Lure

[mini696]

Sorry But I have to mention, On a trip to the banks one of my mates that was on another boat hooked a Dolphin on a Livey. As you could imagine at first he thought all his Christmas's came at once but when it started its aerial display, the gaw dropped and really wasn't sure what he was supposed to do.

Sorry bout the off topic post. But what would you do in that situation?? Ride it in and remove the lure? Cut the line straight away?? (I would imagine 100m of mono hanging from your mouth wouldn't be good).

Same thing with birds and turtles etc?? What do you do??

[Master_Jig_Builder]

G'day Jeremy. Got your letter from BSC regarding sponsorship but it has no phone number on it. Emailed Mike Clare and so far no reply.

If you send me an email (or call on 3217 3210) then we can talk more about what we are willling to provide to club.

[mjc85]

MJC85,
you may not want too many people know on this site about the jetski as they might try and sink it

They could try, but i don't think the owner would let them off lightly (i'm not the owner)

[trollsroyce]

i have heard of dolphins being hooked on yakkas before and i have had dolphins steal hooked fish off the line with finesse and grace of a ballet dancer never going near the hook

[fishy_phil]

[quote author=Jeremy link=board=Saltwater;num=1097037848;start=0#9 date=10/07/04 at 07:47:16]Blue,

You can buy them ready rigged (for $40-50) or get a mate to do it for you.
You can waste alot of money trying to set yourself up with a range fo trolling lures at an average cost of $20 to $30 each, so if you do buy a few, make sure they will do the job. /quote]

gday jeremy
i dont know what brands and that you are talkin about with those prices but i sure as hell wouldnt spend that little money on a trolling lure for that price there is only one way to describe that trolling lure -a piece of shi@!!! [smiley=smash.gif] plus i dont know where you are gettin your info from but the WHOLESALE average price overall for tuna trolling lure was $30, 5 years ago ,since myself and my father did makes them for over 10 years. [smiley=confused.gif]
there is only one way to set yourself up with good trolling skirted lures and that is fork out the big $$$$$. pakulas, black petes, joe yee etc are the way to go....i wouldnt bother with anything less. you might as well have some bananas on the boat!!! [smiley=wut.gif]
but since i have moulds from some of the original joe yee plus some original designs which have been copied by other major producers, and other hawaii stuff i dont need to bother!!!!
plus a heap of unpolished heads and a big travel bag of skirts.... [smiley=thumbsup.gif]
with a range of fish caught from 2 kg albacore and dolphin fish through to 1000lb black and blue marlin why would i use anything of a lesser quality??? ??? ???

cheers
phil

[Kiktz]

Mini696,

Our boat was about 30 to 40 metres away first thing we saw was this Dolphin absolutely launch from the water, My mate just grabbed his spool and busted the line.
They were getting on my nerves quite a bit as they were coming right up to the boat just after dark, and I mean like with in a couple of feet.

I had pulled in a just on 7kg spotty mac and I was out to get another but as soon as I saw the Dolphins I pulled my bait, (Hence my mate caught it). I dont think there is any good thing to come out of hooking up with a dolphin as I don't think I would even like to try having an arm wrestle with one of those guys.

Cheers

[wessel]

If it is not too much too ask, would somebody on the list be kind enough of putting up a few pics on how to correctly rig a skirt....... ie. I am begging here guys

I think I understand the principle of gang hooks, bloopers, poppers, strips etc but there is no way of being sure you are doing the right thing. It is a long process of trial and error with limited resources as to what new ideas are out there and with what succes some things were tried with.

I am in the deepend and the lifejacket blew away Everything I learn from a book, since not many people around here do big game fishing. I have tried a few rigs with reasonable succes to date but I am no expert and there is no expert available locally who is willing to part with a bit of his knowledge earned the hard way.

On another note - you guys in Aus are being ripped a new ringpiece for lures the last time I was there. Rapala CD 14s cost no more than A$20 here, hell I refuse to pay more than A$25 for a CD18. I doubt the country of origin sometimes though, but that is another story.
Your choise is either Rapala or Yazuri here - and I have found one shop in the whole region that actually sells Storm lures. There is a crowd out here that is setting up a charter business for big game fishing, when I contacted them to try and found out where I can find a snap release for a down rigger I was met with stunned silence. I am sure these guys know what they are doing though???

Enough babbling, begging and drooling from me - Pictures please if anybody would be so kind.

Regards

Wessel

[Jeremy]

Fishy_phil,

the price I was quoting was for a rigged pukula uzi. I think I am on the 'money' with that figure. I haven't heard many people call the uzi a piece of shit.

Remember the question was trolling lures for inside moreton bay, so do you really want to run big skirts?

Jeremy

[Jeremy]

Wessel,

if you don't get a reply on this thread, post your question as a new topic and I am sure you will get the help you want.

Jeremy

[wessel]

Me not thinking again.... will post under correct topic and hope for the best.

Wessel

[mackmauler]

Wessel, look at this.

http://www.pakula.com.au/52rigpakula.htm

[Master_Jig_Builder]

Great link. Two other tips to add to the rigging picture.

If your fishing medium to large skirts then my preference is to use double barrel (or figure 8 as some call them) crimping sleeves. Means there is less risk of the mono leader material slipping inside the crimp.

With that in mind, and the distaster it can bring if slippage does take place, just heat the tag end of the leader with a ciggy lighter just before your due to crimp off and let that cool for 20 seconds.

Then pull the tag end up snug so it sits right near the end of the crimp and then crimp off. Cheap insurance if you want to eliminate the risk of the tag end pulling through the crimp on a big fish.