Bird Daisy Chain Rigs

[tunacity]

Ok so being that we had a Gale forecast for Friday, I've been thinking towards next year. I've always used birds, but never bird daisy chains.

Any thoughts on size, color, placement, general usage?

[Persistence]

Fish with a friend and he always pulls a moldcraft bird chain (small birds) down the middle (even with or just past the long riggers). It is very effective...tunas and large wahoo love it. Trailing bait can be whatever you like. Usually pull ballyhoo behind this chain...

[Bert Rodgers]

Squidnation Bill has a bird chain on sale this week. check his web sight.

Bert

[ultangler]

You're in luck--this is the rig John Unkart (author of the book Offshore Pursuit) detail on the "Free Info" page of the GUP web site. Go to www.getgup.com and on the upper left of the home page there's a black button that says "Free Offshore Pursuit Rig". Click on that, and it'll take you to a page from his book, "The Ultimate Bird Rig" (which is a daisy).

[Fiore3]

We always run at least one bird chain.. I like the mini boone bird chain in green, and have had a lot of success pulling it... I like to run it down the middle behind the inside riggers but in front of the long riggers.. And if we pull two we pull them off the short rigger.. Most of the time we pull meat behind them.. They produce almost every time out and we have even had a white boy crash one.. I would not leave the dock without them....

[tunacity]

Thanks for the responses guys.


Glenn/Bert/Fiore, I'm in on swapping the traditional bird rig for a chain with a bally for a change to see how we do. I've never tried that. Sounds perfect. I have two on order from Squid, hopefully they are commensurate with the Boone rig. Going Rasta, as rainbow has been a favorite squid shell color of mine.

Lenny,

Thanks for the link, I love the good ole bird down the center with green machine. It has been what I've traditionally thought of when I think of birds. Call me crazy, but I do a smaller version of the rig way inshore with a large Moldcraft soft bird as the lead with various daisy chains and stingers. It works great for me.

I'm thinking of running one as a teaser, either in place of or ahead of bowling pins. I'd curious to see how they'd work darting around and breaking the surface with the pins behind them...

Any more thoughts are certainly welcome. Please keep the ideas coming. How many days until I'm "back in the lab?"

[Squidnation]

Rob - Hear is a picute of Capt Jakes old mate wireing a tuna on the bird Daisy. Capt jake prefer the black/purple bird chain and trolls it down the middle just outside the long riggers. If I remember correctly he uses a black and purple jr lanader/bally combo as the hooked bait.