10 best blue marlin lures

[SharkJP]

Blue and Pink Ilander with a horse bally. . .not had many come up in the spread, but this is the lure that has provided the best success for us

[turborattler]

A horse hoo with a blue turbo rattler in front of it no skirt

[Capt_John]

1. Joe Yee Plunger(blue/pink)

2. Moldcraft Magnum Chugger(black/purple)

3. Polu Kai Shaka Plunger(green/red)

4. Hollowpoint Kona Killa(skipjack)

5. Aloha Lures Disco Ball(skipjack)

6. Black Bart Hawaiian Breakfast(green/red)

7. Black Bart st. Thomas Prowler(red/black)

8. Polu Kai Fat Boy(black/blue)

9. Moldcraft Bobby Brown Special(purple/black)

10.Marlin Magic Ahi Pu**y(blue/yellow)

[AhiSlayer]

1.) Plungers
2.) Jetted Plungers
3.) Super Plungers
4.) Cup Face
5.) Conventionals
6.) Skip Baits
7.) Bullet heads
8.) Door Knobs
9.) Pushers
10.) Reverse Taper Chugger

If you want to see a picture of my favorite ten in any particular catagory, let me know.

BTW brah here's a picture of Choy's Monster. The largest marlin caught on a lure. And a picture of a lure made from the exact same molds as the one that caught the monster, all 1805 pounds of it. I wonder how big the bigest marlin on bait is? Lures Rule!!!!

In the old days those old sanpan boats only did about 6knots. The Kona head was a popular lure. The hole is below center on the front and center in the rear. A large scoop face with an angle made these lures extremely hard to face. I good one will run straight with just about a two foot side to side carve style of swim with a predictable turn. A badly faced one will run around with no controll barking and snapping at everyone.

That carve was what brought the marlin up, much like the splish splash of a noisey straight running plunger of today. The problem was in the side to side action. Too many marlin missed the lure!

The high hooks back in the day countered this by running a bullet lure on the same wave but instead of the face of the wave, the bullet was on the back of the wave. This was effective enough to be the secret of the day. The guys who knew the secret could forgo the bait grounds and go straight to the fish.

For a good read on modern trolling techniques watch for Music to My Eyes in the next BGFJ. My coach Black Bart sent me an advance copy and I must say his words brought clarity to my jumbled thought process.
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Slayer

[Deep C]

Without beating my chest... We've see a few thousand billfish over the years. A lot of them blues. When I left Murray Brothers I took one of their designs with me and tricked it out... Used to be the LNG 1 then I made the Compleat Angler Masher out of it. Aboard the reel delight we had 500 billfish in only two years. Of the blues, almost a half were on the masher.
The last fish I got on that boat would have weighed at OCean City but a 895 pig went up the scales before we got in. 496Lbs that we didn't bother to weigh with all three fish on the board over 600...


The MASHER!!!

[Deep C]

Some of my other favorites...

[Over Under]

we caught the most last year on a "Rick's Fancy" made by Blue Water Lures...Ray McConnell sells them at his shop in Boca, Ray's Offshore...it's a medium sized lure, that seems to work best in black/red/purple. We do well with another not so popular lure called a Geo Sonic, made locally in Pompany..they have ceramic head and come in a variety of shapes and colors..again, medium sized and puple/black seems to be the ticket for the size BM we shase around in the Bahamas, which average about 200#.

[Patudo]

I'm no expert, but the following seem to be quite successful for me and other boats

- Big T zulu impi or similar style (super ruckus, henry, magnum bobby brown) Doesn't get as many bites as smaller lures but this kind of big noisy pusher bait does seem to take a lot of the really big fish 800 and up. Great hookless teaser.

- mold craft wide range purple-silver with black inside. Almost an industry standard and still a hard one to beat. Any position/all weather and all size fish. Schneiders yapp is basically hard version of this lure.

- tube bait, you need the right conditions to run this one but proven to call up bites over and over again. Smallish to medium lure that looks big and can carry big hooks and heavy leader.

- super plunger, What can I say, proven performer. MC's senior bobby brown is variation on this theme.

- shorter headed slant face, medium to large size, take your pick from LNG #2, M.M. ruckus and pears, there are various clones of this style head from different manfs that if they're properly centered normally work o.k.

Loads of different head shapes out there, every hot spot has its favourites, Iland Express seems to do good on the east coast and bullet-jets in Hawaii... Gotta go with the flow, but most of the time I find myself back to dragging some combination of those above, size smaller if targeting smaller fish. Finding the fish is most important IMO, run across a hungry blue and no lure is safe.

[Deep C]

Patudo,
Well said... I make acouple of the lures you mention. Since Murray Bros folded I took with me the lng2 and lng1 for my line up. The Big T Zulu Impi is our Compleat Slob Slayer... Been tied in with T since I left Murray Bros 12 years ago...
Outside of the lures I'm involved with I see you mention Iland.. Excellent choice! Moldcraft another series you just cant argue with...

[Graceland]

I was doing some digging around tonight for some lures and hiot on this article on a UK message board. Actually made some interesting reading.
http://www.fishing.co.uk/article.php3?id=250