BART MILLER MUST BE A MIILIONAIRE

[gradywhite273]

How about I tape myself on the phone buying a rigged squid from Rey at "BAITMASTERS" and never touching a riggin needle, SHIT I thought this was about BB rigs!!! Sorry, I must have bumped my head, see ya around campus!!

that would be cool too.

[hotshot1]

To play a devil's advocate, Do you think that pulling JUST PLASTIC and succeeding is not as skilled as rigging you own Spanish or squid and scoring. I think you still need to know your sh-t to succceed even with just Plastics

[flatbottom]

There are 13,000 lures out there and growing daily. Every shape, size, slant face, point, cup face, color. You can take a 20 dollar lure and make it move. The simple green machine will dance. You spend hours centering a weight and balancing a 3 dollar hoo to swim perfectly. The son of a Bit......swam before you touched it. Perfectly !!!! Step back and look at that 20 dollar lure. Ask yourself what if I ........now there are 13,001 lures out there. Make that 20 dollar lure come alive. This is not rocket science here If you guys can play games in the arcade for 6 hours......I am sure you can make a green machine dance.............

[SeaMent]

There are 13,000 lures out there and growing daily. Every shape, size, slant face, point, cup face, color. You can take a 20 dollar lure and make it move. The simple green machine will dance. You spend hours centering a weight and balancing a 3 dollar hoo to swim perfectly. The son of a Bit......swam before you touched it. Perfectly !!!! Step back and look at that 20 dollar lure. Ask yourself what if I ........now there are 13,001 lures out there. Make that 20 dollar lure come alive. This is not rocket science here If you guys can play games in the arcade for 6 hours......I am sure you can make a green machine dance.............

Flat, in case you didn't know we're rigging mack's and squid now,and by the way you need to video it with a current newspaper in the background, check the rules of engagement, before playing the game!!

[flatbottom]

ok the macks could swim before I touched them

[FASTWATER]

I was trying to figure out exactly what the fuss really is when I relized that of the 100 + MARLIN I have seen hooked up personnelly thru the years in the Atlantic and Pacific I never even seen a BBL on the boat let alone in the water, am I missing something here,GIVE ME THE MEAT!!!PEACE

[ocalex]

i personally rarely pull plastics. Actually i never did until a hawaiin mate was in oc 2 summers ago and said he was gonna pull plugs for blue marlin. Sure enough next day he came home with a flag flyin. A couple more times that summer the only fished big rods and plastics or combos and had an amazing success rate. Since then i have made a conscience effort on given days when i hear of blue ones around to through them in the water and jump up to 8 knots even its its just for an hour or two. Overall i dont see reason to ridicule the way that anyone fishes. If they dont wanna rig baits then they dont have to, i dont see the difference it makes as long as people are enjoying what they are doing.

[SeaMent]

ok the macks could swim before I touched them

Flat, I would love to see one of those macks swimming with a BB "Breakfast Candy" in front of it!! Could you please put that video together for us, and could you put the yellow fin skirt on the Candy ?? That would be awesome!!

[Sea Draggin]

Dear Black Bart lures....see below. I take paypal.

[Patudo]

Threads like this are always fun. As far as BBLs are concerned, they're an excellent product, designed by a guy who really knows lure fishing, marketed very well, so it's no surprise they sell as well as they do. BBs are not the only brand that produce for sure, but they look good, resin is durable, heads are very consistent, good selection of proven head shapes. Just a very competitive package. The Kona scene is a little different because custom lures are cheaper and more available there than anywhere else. Stalker and Melton carry BBs so you can buy em while supporting the sponsors if you wish.

I don't know enough about baitfishing to say much about it. I do know enough about lurefishing to know that it ain't as simple as crimping on a lure, riding around at 8 knots and waiting for the reel to make a horrible noise. The best lure head skirted badly, with the wrong hook rig, fished poorly is close to useless. There are a hundred and one little things you can do with a lure to tailor it to whatever you want it to do. Selecting, rigging and fishing lures as effectively as possible for the fish and conditions you need to deal with on any given day is a bit of an art in itself. Skirting and rigging up something like a touchy hard cut straight runner head and getting it to run on the short bait so that it's acceptable to an experienced lure skipper is trickier than some might think. The illusion can be created by an expensive piece of modern art like a Coggins or something as cheap as an old mold craft soft head or chrome jet, but making the illusion perfect takes some experience and knowledge. It is a little different to bait fishing but is it really all that different. After all the aim is to bring to life something that's either dead or fake.

A shedload of blues have been caught on live baits trolled at 2 knots. You don't need to fish at 8 knots to get a bite, but it lets you search a wider area for the right signs. The tougher it is to find signs of life the more likely you will come across something at 8 knots compared to 6 knots. Sometimes lures at 8-9 knots is the best way to find them. Sometimes live bait at 1.5-2 knots is best. If you can play the game whatever way works best on the day you have more tools in the box. Just my 2 cents.