Ahh, the good 'ole color question. You know what they say "Color catches the fishermen!"
Ok, to answer your question, you can go a few different ways with color here.
- One option would be to try to match the color on a life-like basis. If this is the route you take, I would suggest Natural or ballyhoo blue or our "clear" version that also resembles a natural squid color.
- Another way to go would be put something wild down there to really get their attention. With this I would go with some of our brighter colors like killer and triple pink, hot pink and purple (shown in picture), electric blue, or the world famous Squidnation Rasta color.
- A method that I like is a match the hatch method. With this style, I would pick an all around versatile color like green or pink and run the same squids on the dredge that I am running off my spreader bars. This really ties the whole spread together.
The nice thing with this dredge is that it is not just for marlin anymore. Savy tuna anglers have been pulling dredges just as they would for marlin and have seen great increases in their catch numbers. To date, the only dredges readily available are the stripteasers and the bullyhoo dredges. Now, I am not taking anything away from these as I have pulled both and they are great, but they have a "stigma" as just a marlin teaser.
The Adrenaline Lures "Life-Like" bait ball is geared more towards the meatfish side, especially on my home turf as squid is the most readily consumed baitfish for pelagics. Now, dont think that this will not raise marlin either.
Thats the point of it, its versatile. And, as an added bonus, if you have the urge, you can even run it like you would an umbrella lure in the bay with a bait behind it because there is a snap swivel hidden in the last squid. Personally, I would not do this. I would use that swivel back there and attach a predator type teaser like a bowling pin or large resin head to simulate a baitball being chased and excited.
I will make sure that Sportfishermen.com has the first shot at these once I make them available. We are still finishing up the product testing on them and I want to make sure that everything is ABSOLUTELY perfect and it is rigged and set up in a way that will maximize its fish raising abillity.
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question
how deep ya run your dredge ?say for Tuna,and or WM
do you use a drail if so what weight ?
or do you use a down rigger?
Thats one good looking dredge !!!!!!!!!!Thanks,Vinny
Hey Vinny, depth depends on conditions and what the fish are showing me for the day.
ONE THING YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO REMEMBER WITH A DREDGE, ALWAYS HAVE IT WHERE YOU CAN SEE IT!!!!!!! For some people, that is only 1-2 feet under the surface. . . thats fine. It does no good if you cant see your dredge and you have a bill in there and dont get the dredge out of the water and get a bait back to the billfish.
I use a dredge weight infron of mine. I will run up to 96oz sometimes, but that is on nasty nasty days, and usually on a boat with a tower so my capt can see it.
With the adrenaline lures dredge, each squid has 1/2oz in it and there is a small weight on the bar. The whole thing comes out to around 6 pounds, so you can actually fish it on nice days w/o a weight, depending on your speed. If you are pushing the speed up, you will need to weight it.
I have used downriggers, dredge rods, and the good ole cleat it off to the transom approach. Downriggers and dredge rods are my favorite as you can get the dredge up quickly when the bite goes off or you have a fish all over the dredge.
Also, a quick question for the board.
Would you rather pay less for a dredge made from SS, or would you like to see on in titanium. The titanium would bump the price of the dredge about $100.
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