A bunch of you guys took advantage of the Green Matanza sale and then sent emails concerning how to rig them. As promised I am posting up how I rig them. I know some captains may do it differently. Capt Jakeg likes to rig them on Mono and Cowboy likes to troll them on his wayback, above is one of Capt Jake's fish caught on a mono rigged Matanza. Capt Shane on the Fighin Lady uses them mostly on the planer. It would be great to see how others rig them as well. Here is my version.

We mostly use them in the fall here in OC. Large wahoos tend to gather on the weedlines from the 30 on out to the 500 fathom line. But Tunas will also gobble them up so I like to keep one on the short rigger when strictly tuna fishing. I like to use a select or horse ballyhoo when these guys are running. In the summer I will scale it down to a med or med/large. For medium large I will use a 8/0 pr 9/0 south tuna style hook. For the horse and select I like to use a 9/0 or 10/0 hook. This is a horse ballyhoo on this demo.

I use a #9 Malin wire and rigging wire. This is a welded hook so I just haywire twist the wire to the hook and leave a tag end on the haywire. I measure the point where the bend will exit the belly and puncture a hole. Also want to make sure the tag will be able to enter the ballyhoo around the middle of the nostrils.

Slip the hook through the gillplate as you would typically rig a bait and exit through the preset hole. Make sure the haywire tag will end in the correct spot so it can be punctured through the nostril.

I wrap the wire through the eyes three times and then wrap around the snout to keep the mouth shut.

Note: - this rig is also very effective with a rubberband. The rubberband can also act as an O-ring to help lock the baithead in place in the matanza.