A MILLION DOLLAR FISHING TIP, FOR FREE!

[Capt njtuna]

Here are two toads that I made one small one and one large one
I used them last year and boy do they raise the fish. I had a Mako
try and eat one of them. So I would suggest to make a few of of them.
I also had a few White Marlin try and hit them around.
I made mine from the instructions in Fred Archers book "NEW SECRETS OF MODERN TROLLING".
I put Shark rattles on them now. I put them on thru the back hole in the fender. I dont paint mine I use metal tape. It holds up just fine in the water.
and can be replaced "not if" but when a shark bites them because they will.

Capt Kevin Carey
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"Carcharodon" Sportfishing
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[KEY-LIME-PIE]

CAPT FRED,
I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THIS POST. I AM STARTING A CHARTER SERVICE THIS SUMMER OUT OF OC MD, I CAN USE ALL THE ADVICE I CAN GET. I'LL BE MAKING ONE THIS WEEK. I'LL LET YOU KNOW HOW IT GOES. THANKS AGAIN. TOM...KEY-LIME-PIE

[VT-tuna]

Well, I started making mine. The paint issue is an issue for sure. Spray bombs just wouldn't tack up on the plastic. So, I shot them with dupond 3608s sandable primer with just enough laquer thinner to make it spray. Almost like spraying sand but seems to have worked like a champ. Let it set up for an hour or so and now can paint with just about any thing. This is my dolphin simulator with a base of yellow and then a ton of glitter (green, blue, yellow and silver). I simply spray a thin dusting of enamel clear (spray bomb) and sprikle away. Then spray a full wet coat to encapsulate the glitter. Just kept doing it until my wife gave the go ahead that it was no longer hideous. I am actually going to pick up some heat shrink wrap this evening and see if I can seal it up without distorting the glitter. Really don't want glitter all of the boat although it is encapsulated quite well.

What does every one think. It really glistens much better than the photo. Will make a tuna next.

[KEY-LIME-PIE]

THIS IS TOM FROM THE KEY-LIME-PIE, I WAS WOUNDERING IF THERE WAS ANYWAY TO RIG A HOOK TO THE TEASER BAIT THAT FOLLOWS THE BUMPPER TEASER. I WAS THINKING SOMEHOW OF RIGGING AN ACTUAL SECOND LINE TO THAT TEASER THAT LOOKS LIKE ITS BEEN INJURED. ANY THOUGHTS? TOM

[Captain Fred Archer]

Cap John,

Pursackly! I'll post a drawing of a booby trapped toad a bit later. Works great - no, fantastic! Only problem is sharks (makos and threshers) if you arent fishing for them. We fish wire, no matter what we're actually fishing for and welcome the shark attacks. More later...the Labs are giving me the "Poo-poo eye".

[ROOKIE]

Great post, Captain. You writing style is very tight and coherent. I think I'll read it again!

[Green Machine]

Thank you for sharing this tip, Capt. Fred, and I can't wait to try it out this season! Like all of your tips, it just seems to make too much sense not to work!

Quick question on these toads -- do they have to be run off a rod and reel, or can they be cleated off? I realize that cleating them off would increase the chance of getting one ripped off when a shark attacks, but it might make it easier to fish a "booby trapped" lure off the clip behind it. I was thinking of using it like a cleat planer -- would that work?

Thanks

[Captain Fred Archer]

Thanks guys. Yes, Greenie, Toads can be run off of cleats, but ever since we started running them off the lower arm of our UpRiggers none of us want to fish them any other way. It isn't so much preventing break offs when sharks or marlin hit them (having the drag slip does help there, but remember, if a Toad is broken off, they float, so you don't lose them), it is just that both they and the booby trap rod and reel are so much easier to handle off the UpRigger. You can actually hold a booby trap fish with one hand and crank in the Toad with the other...try that with a hand line!

Another thing that I find interesting is that a Toad attack is just about non-existent if it booby trapped. No matter what the species, they seem to lose all interest in the Toads if they have that lure or bait behind them. Run the same Toads without the trap and it will get worked over big time by lots of different fish, including the sharks and wahoos that can make "flat tires" out of them.

I hope that a lot of you back there build and run Toads. It's rare for something this inexpensive and simple to put together and that is so effective. That image of a gamefish of some kind having crippled a bait that is right behind it is obviously a powerful one that elicits instantaneous, instinctive reaction to this natural scene. I'm looking forward to hearing from some giant tuna and big bigeye trollers letting me know how they do with them - I just know that the big tunas are going to just murder booby trapped Toads!

The first picture is a pair of UpRiggers running. The "down" rod on the near one has a Toad on it and the rod in the upper holder is the booby trap rod. Man, this is the way to "do the Toad (RRRrrribit!)"

The second thing is something that I would be trolling behind a big Toad on a booby trap rig and if the big bluefins were around I just know what would happen to it sooner or later. Of course, you'd be getting interrupted by them danged sharks. Golly, how sad!

Big tackle only if you drag a drunken blue!

(Don't forget to build a little, thirteen inch Toad for inshore trolling. It will make a huge difference in your catch rate. Move back to the big Toad if you are crazy enough to think that it might just turn on the striper of a lifetime. A drunken bunker or an eel behind it? Oh, mercy! Hit me with a stick!)

These tips brought to you by one of those outdoor writers who write for those lousy, good-for-nothing, nothing-but-ads magazines that ain't worth a damn, so anyone who writes for them must not be either. This one courtesy of that worthless piece of crap Big Game Journal that has one of those useless articles that covers Armed Drunken Bluefish and Drunken Bluefish Teasers in next month's issue and a free update being sent out to those who have bought New Shark Troller's Bible.

[Baywolf]

Thanks alot Fred for the awsome tip. Were going to have one.

[Admin]

Was working in the shed over the weekend and found
all the bumpers I bought this summer but never moved forward with building them.

I think im going to put this on my list of projects to accomplish this winter.

Capt John