What makes up their diet …?? Dolphin…?? …small blackfin and bonitas and such…??? Gonna do some tourney fishing and there is some old school versus new school debate. Looking like we will still pull a bunch of big lures really fast still. It has worked in the past. I would like to get one meat lure out there for a dolphin. Is there any scenario where you can rig hoos with a circle hook and troll at 10 knots…??
You could try with Barefoot’s circle hook chin weight if the tournament allows them. Use the spanish hook with a stud horse ballyhoo.
Harness a small dolphin or tunney, that has worked in the past, the trick is getting swimming right.
Local Boy, Just having fun.
PM ne before you fish the tournament. I can sell you the best marlin bait: Spanish mackerel. Also I can get horse mullet and bluefish as well. That goes for anybody reading this
RS, first question - what is your strategy for the tournement(releases/ kill/ have shots at fish/ calcuttas ect)? I personally have seen ten times the Blues dredge fishing than dragging lures and plenty of action from pelagics. Lure fishing really is an art form and even the best rarely bat above .500 on hook-ups. Dredging does have a learning curve but once you start to see the volume of fish… It will change the way you fish. Either way a strategy is key in tourney fishing particulary with the calcuttas and small boat categories.
George Carlin said it best, ‘Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of them are stupider than that’’.
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local boy, that takes up too much valuable time.