Outriggers are there for your benefit, so use them. You can rig double up or even triple them up if you have room. The whole idea is to be able to fish more lines and create that optimum illusion of a bait school. A simple way of running teasers is to simply clamp some smaller Penn senator reels on the hardtop piping, attach a glass ring to your outrigger poles using waxed rigging floss, being sure to criss-cross the wraps and back-wrap to prevent the glass ring from flipping over. Now run your teaser lines thru, come out and around your long and shot rigger and clip back to the pad eye or halyard clip until you need to use them. Now bear in mind, when you are deploying teasers you will be running the clicker on the reel and possibly having to thumb-brake the spool at times so if the reels you are using have a level-wind such as a gti series or 209 level wind you had better remove it before you mash your fingers up in the heat of the moment. Also, be sure to run a break-free at the spool by using 20# mono. This will be a four-foot section tied to the reel first before winding on your heavy line. You should never get to this section unless that boscoe blue has come in and just eaten your teaser and won’t let go. This safety break-free will prevent your outriggers from being torn off or broken/and bent.
Clips. Try to stay away from the pin style clips as they will eventually wear a spot in your line over time. Just look at what the mono section looks like after it has ridden in a pin style Black’s clip for a while and you will see a bend in the mono, or a chafed spot. This will be more evident in rougher seas and when pulling larger lures and plunger and chugger style lures. If yours are rigged this way you can always just make a wax-floss loop on your line and put it into the pin to prevent chafing. Ultimately the best rigger clip in my opinion is the Aftco Roller Troller OR-1 clips with the stainless thumbwheel, not the plastic slide clip. Easy to adjust tension and no chafing issues and very reli
Gofshn, You prefer to use mono for outrigger lines or something else?
After a few years I switched from using mono to using a 1/8" parachute type cord, usually replaced them every few years as well. Would triple rig them with different colors line to be easily distinguished, would run the teaser out the mid point line so one could retrieve the teaser without reaching way out with gaff or something. Found that got less creep using line vs mono and was a lot simpler to rerig on the fly if needed.
Good point about running a break-free section of 20 lb mono on the teaser reels, never did that,Yet!!
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I haven’t had a creep problem since I went to cam locks for the tensioners like they use on sailboats. They are made by Harken Company. 400 # mono lasts longer than the nylon if you keep your boat in a slip or exposed to the weather and sun. Just fished a friends boat a few weeks go and he had nylon for rigger lines, year and a half old and one broke while fishing that day. Luckily I keep a rig kit made up in my tackle bag just for this purpose, a few minutes later it was lines back out on the left rigger. I rigged the Ocean 40 three years ago and the Bertram five years ago, and the Jesse James five years ago, no wear showing as of yet. You are right on spot with the teaser line, like I explained above, it is nice to be able to fly that teaser in instead of having to reach way out, plus you can fly it in to the side of the boat while you gaff a fish and it will be out of your way.
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