Yellowfin spreads...

[Captain Fred Archer]

Here is my "all around, day-in, day-out catch 'em all" spread from down Cabo way. My spread when I was concentrating on all tuna was the same, but with bars instead of ballyhoo - which rarely got bit by tunas - on the long riggers. Weird as hell...the tooners hardly hit the real ballies, but went nuts over two main kinds of bars - different sized squid ones (match the hatch), and of all things, the ballyhoo ProSquid ones shown. Everything else ate the natural ballies, especially when they "soaked" while we were fighting fish, yet the tunas went ballistic on the blue and white Pros. And anywhere else I've fished them where there were ballyhoo the tunas hit the bars at least as well as the ballies. Match the Hatch and Make The Catch! (Especially if it's ballyhoo and you've got bars that match them.)

The tuna spread on the right has 5 1/2 dozen mighty damned realistic looking medium "ballyhoo" in it (that's half a case worth!) of baits that you can troll from 4 to at least 14 knots (spraying ballyhoo speed, that), that don't blow out, that dinks can't hurt, that don't dry or wash out, that you don't have to keep in a freezer or cooler, that you don't have to thaw, brine, or salt and that you never, ever have to throw away - you just put 'em away at the end of one trip and pull 'em out and fish them on the next trip, and the next trip, and the next year, and so on. Oh yeah, and they are incredibly less expensive than the real stuff too.

Available at booth 2008 (Roddy Hays' Legend Lures) in the Big Game Room at Miami Boat Show and coming here soon for non-show goers. Prices removed from the last picture.

[ancient mariner]

HI:
Up in Canada it's all MEAN JOEY colors or GYO for Bigeyes .
Down in Fla when we run to the edge of the stream it's Blue/Thite or Green/Yellow or Red/White.
Last year up in the Noreast, it was GYO and Mean Jopey in 4 and 6 inch Cedars with 4,3/4 inch sized T'ZER setups in front of the Cedras.

As an aside, the 4inch and 6 inch Cedars with those same sized T'ZERS down here in Fla (inside 40 miles) worked for Mahi and Blackfin too.

A bird in front of your lures will really attract the YFT and MAHI too.
WACKM 'N STACKM
Joseph B...aka...Ancient Mariner