Whitey comes in on the dredge,

[Bert Rodgers]

what's your crew's drill?

Bert

[pitch bait]

Pull the dredge in half way up, not out of the water just alittle higher in the water. Now total free spool no clicker and sink your pitch bait (naked ballyhoo) past the dredge. You want to get the bait to pass as close to the dredge as possible to make it seem as if the bait has come out of the dredge. One of two things will happen. The fish will eat your bait, or he will stay on the dredge. If he eats your bait then I would put the dredge back into position and start prospecting on that dredge looking for the second bite. If he dosent eat you and stays on the dredge I would free spool the bait to about my long rigger position and then wind the bait back to the flat line position once I start cranking the bait back the second angler will crank the flat line in and sink the flat line past the dredge this time pulling the dredge away as the bait passes the dredge. The first pitch bait is now in the flat line position. i hope this dosent confuse you.

[Bert Rodgers]

Doesn't confuse me at all. I was just wondering how many folks pull the dredge in and how many leave it be. How many use the flat to prospect as opposed to pitching.

Last season we hooked up by prospecting from the bridge , leaving the dredge alone and pulling the bridge bait in tight then dumping. I'm not sure the bites came from the fish we spotted on the dredge or another one hanging back, which I think happens more often than we know.

Does anyone position their short rigger over the dredge and simply pop it out of the pin and let it sink by the dredge?


Bert

[Squidnation]

Brert - We were on the Billfisher in Mex two weeks ago. Duffie wanted someone prospecting a flat line from the dredge to the long riggers all day. We didn't do it all day but we did manage 6 blind bites prospecting.

[biebs]

After I hear what sounds like a bomb going off from the bridge, I try to decipher what Le Marlin blanc est parti court, aucune gauche longue, aucun juste plat means in broken french, then after my ears stop ringing, I make a move in the direction I am most confident in. It usually works.

[Squidnation]

After I hear what sounds like a bomb going off from the bridge, I try to decipher what Le Marlin blanc est parti court, aucune gauche longue, aucun juste plat means in broken french, then after my ears stop ringing, I make a move in the direction I am most confident in. It usually works.

That might be the funniest thing I have read all year. True but funny. As one highly regarded captain who fished with us last year said. WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT - I have been to two goat screwings and 3 world fairs and I have never heard anything like that!

TEAM CANADA ROCKS!

[SeaMent]

Brert - We were on the Billfisher in Mex two weeks ago. Duffie wanted someone prospecting a flat line from the dredge to the long riggers all day. We didn't do it all day but we did manage 6 blind bites prospecting.

that's the way we do it in Fla. tourny fishin & it works if you got some guys that will stay at it, we do it in 15-20 minute rotation and get most our bites this way !!

[biebs]

wouldnt want it any other way bill.

[love]

In the WMO this year whitey came on the dredge and started eating away. I cranked the dredge as hard as possible away. We stuck a few in front of his face and a few days later they wrote the FISH Whistle a check for 956K. That and a few prayers to the Good Lord seemed to be the ticket.

As I write this I am freezing and Howard "Tuna Bite" is on fire. You da man for now Tica King.

Schwinggggggg