Bare Naked Lady

[Captain Rich Adler]

Modified: 6/27/2011

I had Matthew Malkiewicz, John Colangelo (**** Robin), Bryan Vince, and Steve Morley (Sea Hawk) out on Sunday for a mid range trip. When we started working the area we got mugged up by bluefish. After a couple of hours of jumbos sized bluefish and no bluefin, we decided to chum for sharks. Presto the bluefish dissapeared, but unfortunately the sharks decided not to play. We sat for five hours in a chum slick, chunking bunker, mackeral, blues, squid, and butterfish and all we had to show for our effort was a drive by school of peanut mahi that wouldn't bite. Back on the troll we went, and sure enough the bluefish were all over us again. My Ilanders all have new buzz cuts! I'm getting nervous now, it's getting late in the day and I don't have a tuna in the box. I'm working my way from the Chicken Canyon over to the Glory Hole and I reach into the Bait Cooler and I feel the bare bottom !!! I look down to see the last rigged ballyhoo, no Islander, no Sea Witch, just a Bare Naked Lady. As I put it on the 80 International, Zac the new mate timidly states "But it has no feathers", I just looked around at the mess in the cockpit, torn up Islanders, nicked up leaders, kinked wire, and said this is going to be a good thing. To say I put that Bare Naked Lady way back would be an understatement, that Bally was in a different time zone, I dumped half of the reel. That Bally was so far back that the European Union was looking at it, and when I reached the Glory Hole, that Lady was leaving the Chicken. I started trolling the edge of the Hole and just then Sing Pow, Shazaam,!@#$%that rod went off! Steve jumped on the rod, but the fish was so far back the TSA wanted to do a pat down. When Steve just couldn't take it anymore, Johnny stepped up to the plate and took over on the rod. A short while later, a fat 32 inch Bluefin came up to meet the gaff and then we ran for home.

[gottaflylee]

Congrats! I always ran a split bill on the shotgun off my bridge and it was a constant producer, lots of Wahoo on mono came to the steel.

[Captain Rich Adler]

No wire??

[gottaflylee]

Ya for the most part Rich. All we did was a loop around the hook and then used it for the pin, worked like a charm. WE very rarely lost a fish doing that.

[Captain Rich Adler]

I lost 7 out of 11 lures in one pass to a pallet loaded with wahoo last summer. Guess I'm a little gun shy ! "Loop around the hook" are you talking about the rigging wire?

[gottaflylee]

Ya Rich, run your mono leader through your hook and weight if you use one and then a piece of #6 or #9 wire the same way and back through you crimp. Crimp and bend wire up for pin and trim to size. I will try to post a picture if one tomorrow when I get off the water. We're having a wonderful rain with lots of lighting popping right now.

[Captain Rich Adler]

Ya Rich, run your mono leader through your hook and weight if you use one and then a piece of #6 or #9 wire the same way and back through you crimp. Crimp and bend wire up for pin and trim to size. I will try to post a picture if one tomorrow when I get off the water. We're having a wonderful rain with lots of lighting popping right now.

Oh, I got cha, redid a bunch of lures after last summer's massacre that way. Send me a photo when you get a chance, would like to see how far in front of the hook you are running the wire.