Hands free teaser retrieval

**pitch bait** · 03-21-2008 08:23 AM

Last year one thing that we had a problem with is our teasers getting in the way when we were paralleling fish. It always seemed our teaser was always dangling right there flirting with danger. The captain has electric reels with memory so he just pushes a button. Now they are hanging from the rigger. On our riggers we have a three pulley system. The inside pulley goes to the long rigger,the second goes to the short riggger and the third is the teaser adjustment or third rigger clip. If you take a tag line retrieval weight and put it on the teaser adjustment line below the rigger clip. I use a rigger clip cause sometimes I like to fish a third line from my rigger (tuna fishing) you can use what ever stop you choose, cork, lure head what ever. Now your teaser line comes from the bridge and goes through the tag line weight. The weights up against the pulley by the boat. Run your clip up to the rigger the weight will say against the pulley at he boat. As soon as you throw your teaser over the drag on the water will pull the weight up to the clip where every ou have that set. Now when you get a fish on and its time to bring the teaser in, as soon as the squids come out of the water the drag comes off the teaser line and the weight will slide down and pull the teaser to the boat. This could be confusing. Now the teaser is in the water next to the boat and my anglers line is over top and there is no chance of interferance and I can pull the teaser when I get a chance. My owner picked that up from Captain Ron Hamlin in Guatamala. It is nice when the boat owner wants to learn and help get things running alittle smoother. Some guys I have worked for would evern know what were teasers and what had hooks. I hope this helps somone.

**Bert Rodgers** · 03-21-2008 09:05 AM

Pitch, I'm trying to wrap my feeble mind around the description. Anychance of a diagram?

Bert

**austin ensor** · 03-21-2008 09:07 AM

same here ......diagram doesnt hav to be fanccy???!?!!!

**Glenn W** · 03-21-2008 11:41 AM

Bobby,
I assume under this set up you have to be concerned with long teaser chains getting caught in the wheels if you don't get them out of the water quickly?
I know we lost two teasers last year by having the chains pulled in towards the boat but not snatched out of the water--- then backing down----grrgggmmm--- shit there goes another $100 Ilander chain.

**pitch bait** · 03-21-2008 12:52 PM

I will try to draw a diagram. It was easy when we went backwards the chains would go forward and we kept the fish off the stern. Lately we have been only clearing the inside and paralleling the fish so we can keep fishing, less stuff to put back out, and much faster release time. This is white marlin fishing. When your teaser is up and the first sqid is against the tag line weight when the weight falls there is like fifteen feet of slack as the weight comes down so it actually drops the lure back past the transom. We stay in forward so we dont have to worry about backing down. Our other side dredgw stays in the water too.