Another dredge placement question

[roughriderjosh]

Im going to try and run a medium sized strip teaser for the first time. My question like many others on the forum is that I dont want to mess up my rod positions in the cockpit by using a dredge rod back there or downrigger in rod holder. My teaser reels are old Penn 49L's that obviously wont support the dredge.

We have a 43 sportfish. My question is could I run a bent butt and reel seat with a 9/0 out of the rocket launcher at the back of my flybridge and place it in the far outside closest launcher to my rigger and angle it towards the rigger so its out of my way yet still could be reeled in from those up top if that makes any sense?

Any other economical ideas or alternatives would be helpful as well.
Thanks again.

[whitey]

You would be better off pulling it from a handline tied off to a stern cleat

[Bert Rodgers]

Im going to try and run a medium sized strip teaser for the first time. My question like many others on the forum is that I dont want to mess up my rod positions in the cockpit by using a dredge rod back there or downrigger in rod holder. My teaser reels are old Penn 49L's that obviously wont support the dredge.

We have a 43 sportfish. My question is could I run a bent butt and reel seat with a 9/0 out of the rocket launcher at the back of my flybridge and place it in the far outside closest launcher to my rigger and angle it towards the rigger so its out of my way yet still could be reeled in from those up top if that makes any sense?

Any other economical ideas or alternatives would be helpful as well.
Thanks again.

Run it off a downrigger from the bridge.

Bert

[Squidnation]

I have seen many boats do it as you just described. It works fine if you rig a pulley system

[Glenn W]

I have seen many boats do it as you just described. It works fine if you rig a pulley system

Exactly. We started running our dredges this way last year, and although we have a couple kinks to work out, we've been happy with this set up.
On thing is for sure, Dredges are a PIA, no matter what (where) you do with them, but they do work so we're trying to tweak what works best for us. One of our biggest problems was the twin engines and lack of clean water. By moving them out on the riggers just a couple feet enabled the dredges to run in clean water that we can better see down in to-- yet not so far out as to interfer with the teasers.
The dredges run from the bridge and on the riggers, presents new problems however. The man on the bridge must now work the teasers and dredges and get them in to back down. This takes coordination with someone in the pit to deploy the dredges and retreive them when need be.
Another small obstical was that we had to use a little more weight.
Without a pully system to give a 2:1 mechanical advantage, it's a handful cranking in the dredges from the bridge, especially when you're trying to get other mess cleared.
It's like most other littke tweaks--- eventually you figure out what works best for you and the particular boat you are on.
Note: I wouldn't try this at all unless you have braced outriggers.

[madgaffer]

when i mated for a carolina custom boat we tied our dredges off the cleats and had a lot of success dragging dredges we actually took 4th in 2005 in the ma5oo but now im fishing a newer boat with teaser reels at the helm so we drag them off the riggers now. In all honestly tho i think it was easier to work the teasers off the cleats then from the flybridge.

[SeaMent]

I have a small boat and pulled mine off the cleats for awhile but got tired of having them laying in the pit and being in the way while wiring fish, I switched to the riggers with a pulley system and it sure is nice to leave them hanging out there while dealing with a fish at the boat and they aren't a tangled mess when it's time to put them back in the water. I am also refering to a double mullet dredge or big bally dredge with alot of weight on them. I've never used a strip teaser dredge, I guess it would be easier to handle. I found it would almost always take 2 people to get the damn things back in the water pulling them from the cleats and they aren't running in the clean water off the cleats.

[Sea Draggin]

Last year I pulled big strip dredges and natural bait dredges off the back of the Grady using my downrigger. Right behind outboards have never been a great spot for them. Once I would get them back to where I though they should be, they would get out of sight and I couldn't see them.

This year, given I still have the boat, I have rigged mini dredges using small striper umbrella dredge arms that I plan to pull off my riggers, where my inline teasers have gone. I downsized them to take away some of the weight and drag, but they will be out in the clean water and away from the outboards.

Instead of 7 strips that are on a regular dredge, I think I am pulling 4 on the mini.

[BTH284]

If you are using a downrigger and it has the ability to swivel and with an extenable boom, I would suggest pulling your dredges this way. Like Jim above I ran mine right behind the boat far back out of the wash. While retrieving it one day I swiveld the boom in to me to pick the dredge up and noticed it was alot more visible out beside the boat. Then I extended the boom and it runs great 5' off the 90 degrees to the side and back and of the boat. To clear, I crank it in, swivel the boom to sit right above and parallel to the gunnel and toss the whole dredge rig in the livewell (empty). This keeps the pit clear and unobstructed. It re-deploys very easy. This works extremely well for small boat. I use the 69 fish strip dredge and all my others teasers this way.

This way it creates a great pocket in a few places to place a struggling naked ballyhoo that cannot keep up with the school. I would bet a planer rod in a swivel rod holder would be able to do the same thing. most of all you can see the whole rig and whatever it might raise and draw in.