Dan: I want to talk to you a little bit about how do you pin on a bait when you’re yellowtail fishing. Now when you’re fishing with live bait, when you’re fishing offshore, you normally going to just fly line the bait and the way we do that is you just take your live bait hook and when you come to the bait receiver— this is the bait tank. You don’t want to dig in there. You want to go on the bait well.
The bait well, we have a couple of baits here and the normal way I want to hook it is for live bait fishing, no sinker. I’m just going to pin it right through the nose. Just like that. See how the hook is right in front of the nose. In front of the eyeballs, that’s the way it should look so you can move around nice and freely.
Now another rig that we fish is we’re going to fish in the dropper loop. The dropper loop rig is a real basic rig. You just have your big sinker. You have a hook in the loop. And normally when we do this just because we want to get the bait on the bottom, close to the bottom so the sinkers on the bottom. We want this bait to swim around.
Now if you’re really using a big bait you probably want to have a bigger loop but for mackerel, sardines this is fine. Now what you want to do is take your mackerel and you just pin it on like we did the sardine, right in front of the eyeballs. Just come right here. There’s two little holes right there and you just pin it in just like that and that’s how we do it.
So your bait will actually be sitting on the bottom and you’re mackerel can move around. He’ll move in the loop and stop and he’ll look life like in that way you can keep a nice big bait like that close to the bottom. I’ll tell you I’ve seen a lot of big yellowtail caught on a rig like this. Well this will show you some exciting action to say what its like to go yellow tail fishing.
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