Marty:
I am rigging a pin teaser for my next boat.
I thought of using 300 lb flouro main line (flouro because I have it and need to use it), I know how to rig it distance wise and have all the necessary terminal tackle,
Question - What pound test should I use main line and danglers?
I prefer to use just one bowling pin, put it in the right place and it'll raise fish. They look and act really good if you can position them to swim and wobble along the front slope of the first or second wave tight to the boat in a clear spot of bluewater. I'd run it on a yard or so of 700 pound mono crimped to one ring of a heavy sampo with a cord line tied to the other end and cleated off (don't forget to use metal thimble chaffing gear on the mono connection to the pin and to the swivel) or run it off a bridge or cockpit teaser reel on a bent butt with 200 pound mono and a similar terminal setup, but the towing point must be low down in both cases otherwise the bait won't stay in the water (can be difficult to arrange with a bridge reel but worth it as the bait floats when the boat is stopped and easy for the skipper to retrieve). Agree with Ahi, use the largest pin you can find. The bigger the teaser the less likely a blue is to eat one of your hook baits instead of the teaser. I would be hesitant to use even heavy coated wire as you can't see the corrosion gremlins eating away at the metal inside and the pin wobbles along with such action that wire fatigue after a couple hundred hours might be a risk.
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I purchased one from Tournament cable. The mainline is the cable. Very Strong to take the abuse of six large pins bouncing at different angles. The branches are conected with two way swivels that are conected to each other. The branches are mono. Too windy to mess with it right now. I'll let you know how it does when I get it wet.
Didn't recognise the name, but I recognise the advise. Good!!
I ran one last year and it did raise fish to it. It is the large 6 pin teaser in the Mahi color and I got it from Melton Tackle. After talking to some people I did some work on them last week. I drilled a 1/2'' hole about 3'' deep on the front of the pin on the bottom right under the clip you hook the snap swivle to. I put 3 1oz slip sinkers into the hole and then filled it with west system epoxy. This will make the front of the pin dive deeper giving it more action. Then I got some holographic tape and cut it into 1'' strips and place it on 2 sides and the bottom of each pin hoping to add some bling bling . To finish it off I got a old squid daisie chain and placed the squids on the 400lb black mono that goes from the pins to the boat. From what I was told when a fish sees a school of fish ( my pins) chasing a pod of bait (the squid) It switches something on in their brains telling them to eat wire rigged Ballyhoo on Seawitch . I will let you know how they run when I get the boat in the water .
Ever try running the strip holographic teaser behing the bowling pin? I'm guessing you have to stay with the four arm dredger or something like that. I want to try the hologram teasers this year, but they are expensive to replace if they get torn up. And I know they will get destroyed after a bill is hanging on it for a good time.
I just they would swim nice behind the pin, but my brain tells me that it should be in reverse order but I can't figure out to set that up. Other than having two separate line close together, and then I'd have a tangled mess most likely.
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. I will let you know how they run when I get the boat in the water .
