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    How do you catch ballyhoo?

    I haven't had much luck catching ballyhoos for bait but heres how I do it. Get a couple loafs of bread (cheapest I can find) oatmeal works too. Chum up the water with one of my Navy issued laundry bags full of bread. I use a small spinning outfit with 4-6# line, size 14-16 hooks, a chopstick, and some rubberbands.

    I rubberband the chopstick length wise to the line it acts as some weight to help cast and acts as a bobber plus as an added bonus it is the same color as the bread and seems to attract some hoos. Once I start to see em coming around I use a little ball of bread on the hook give er a cast and reel em in one by one putting them in a ice chest full of brine. I dont have a cast net but figure I get better quality baits without it. I work nights so on my nights off I go to the marina under a light illuminating the water and start working. How do you do it? Got any tips on bait type, hooks, or place to find em. Hardest thing for me is finding them. I need tip so I can catch more.

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    I've never done it, but everyone that I've seen do it uses a cast net and chum.

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    Cast net and Chum is quickest way...Sabiki rig with chum works also....bob

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    What do they chum with?

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    Chum can be most anything you want from oat meal to bunker...
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    I've watched em in the Keys. Find a reef and anchor up so the current runs the chum onto the reef. Put out some chum and bait tiny hooks with little pieces of shrimp. You can see the hoo in the slick. They use small bobbers and float the bait back to the hoo. Works good there.
    Cast net is faster but your right, may damage the hoo.

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    SMALL SABIKI AND USE A MINATURE CAROLINA STYLE DE-HOOKER


    I HAVE ONLY CAUGHT 2 IN MY LIFE IN NORTH CARLOINA AND THEY WERE ACCIDENTAL......

    THE BEST AND EASIEST WAY I HAVE FOUND SO FAR IS GO TO JOE SHUTES AND BUY THE SUMBITCHES....

    YOU ARE IN GUAM....GEEZZZ....HOW ABOUT A PHOTO JOURNAL THREAD FOR WELCOME TO MY WORLD DUDE!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by WAHOONBOX View Post
    SMALL SABIKI AND USE A MINATURE CAROLINA STYLE DE-HOOKER


    I HAVE ONLY CAUGHT 2 IN MY LIFE IN NORTH CARLOINA AND THEY WERE ACCIDENTAL......

    THE BEST AND EASIEST WAY I HAVE FOUND SO FAR IS GO TO JOE SHUTES AND BUY THE SUMBITCHES....

    YOU ARE IN GUAM....GEEZZZ....HOW ABOUT A PHOTO JOURNAL THREAD FOR WELCOME TO MY WORLD DUDE!!!
    sounds like a plan I will work on a photo journal tomorrow after I get off work. For now gotta go to sleep.

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    Ask Brandon, I've seen him catch one with his hands

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