Since the Wind will not stop blowing.

[Ponce]

Looks good Ponce! Nice meeting you the other day, you'll enjoy the planer set up, it's a proven killer!!!!! Like E40 said Orange head purple/black on the WWB or the flat, the slobs will be chewing The Purple/Black looks awesome!

Foul Hook'd

Nice meeting you as well. I build a couple of the orange head with purple and black before the fall.

I picked up my HDS the other day the transducer should be in Mon or Tues. Now we need to just try to match up our schedules and do the install. If you or E-40 can pm me what you think might work for you I'll look at mine and we'll put something together.

[Ponce]

Are you gonna run these with some meat or just hooks when you troll for those toothy ones? Also, what kind of wire do you normally use for these guys?

I am heading up to hatteras next week and I am just trying to get an idea of what works the best. Your lures look really great!

Dave

I run them with ballyhoo and I use #9 stiff wire rigs with either a 7/0 or 8/0 7692 or 7731 mustad.

[Nauti Natured]

They look great Ponce. I love the ones with the skirts. I know it will be a great feeling when they raise fish! Keep us posted on their success.

[Captain Fred Archer]

Ponce,

Those lures look great and I'm sure they'll catch well for you. We ran something quite similar down in Cabo and they played hell on the wahoo and the tuna. We didn't reverse skirt them, though. You might want to try rigging a few that way (with the skirts running back, not forward) and run them to see what you think.

We ran ours as spreaderbar chasebaits and on planers without ballyhoo, but with hollow squids, especially our ballyhoo lookalikes.

Neat looking stuff. Nice going!

Here's the squid we used...comes in several colors.

[Foul Hook'd]

Ponce I'm wide open Mon/Tues, Fri-Monday night, we'll get it fixed up. Your rigs look very similiar to the ones a friend of mine pulls off the back of the barges he pulls. He pulls them on hand lines, 400lb mono, 100ft. back, naked and have a bunge cord in line to allow for the strike. I think he uses #10 or bigger wire. He regularly snags stud hoos and big bull mahi. He said the orange/black combo usually gets the fish down in the Gulf, Bahamas and well offshore of the east coast.

Foul Hook'd

[Sea Draggin]

Hey Ponce. Looking good. Here is a good fall color combo I have used some. Thats a tooth mark under the eye I like the darker schemes in the spring, but brighter ones in the fall. Of course, every day is different. When wahoo fishing, if I don't get bit on a color within the first 30 minutes, I'm changing.

[controlled chaos]

That thing looks like the 4th of july special to me!!!

But seriously, nice lookin lure. I might have to be a copycat and tie one up like that. How big is the head?

[Jesse Lockowitz]

sweet jim.

thinkin of buyin a sail for my yak, the way the wind is lookin, if i had a sail i wont have to paddle ever again

[Ponce]

Guys

Thanks for the comments, you all gave me some ideas for the next ones I tie. I like making lures and rigging almost as much as useing them. The problem is I have about 5 years worth of lures that I have made hanging around the garage.

[Custom Canvas]

I like making lures and rigging almost as much as useing them. The problem is I have about 5 years worth of lures that I have made hanging around the garage.

I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM!!