Question about Spreader Bars

[BahamaBob]

Well, my wife dug into her crafting room (makes my fishing "office" look empty) and cut out a bunch of mylar ballyhoo from balloons and laminated them into strips about five feet long with about 8 fish per strip (on some machine I had no idea we had.) I ordered a six arm dredge for under 20 bucks, and plan on running that behind a pound of cigar sinker. We shall see how the Acklins tuna and mahi like it next month! I think we will just run a couple cedar plugs behind and to the side of the dredge, and then cast flies into the school.

[captcl]

Capt. Fred where can i get those rod holders or are they custom?

[Captain Fred Archer]

Captcl,

For information on UpRiggers, contact Captain Bob Melville at RNRBOB@SBCGLOBAL.COM He will send you our spreaderbar/dredge catalog, which has a great deal of information on UpRiggers in it.

An email we just received on them from a first time user, Rob Jenkins from New Jersey...

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Bob,

How are you? I have not been able to get back to you because I was out doing some fishing in North Carolina. I have some feedback for you and Fred.

First, the UpRiggers. They are awesome! I fish a center console and at first I was kind of worried about having to get over the tops of them. No problem. I was able to put two more lures into the spread, fishing eight, with absolutely no problems. The stand up flatlines and then the extra pair of flats right on top of them really let me fill up the wake with bars and lures. I always trolled all sorts of stuff, but had to put the rods in the rocket launchers. Hard to get to. No need for that since I got the UpRiggers.

The bars are great. Tangle free and they catch, too. Only found some mahi though. The yellowfin schools were small and scarce. If you found them, you caught a couple. I looked all over the structure, but couldn't find fish or bait. Same story with the makos - there were reports way to the south of me.

So far, everything is as advertised. We are very pleased. Now we are just waiting for the water up here in New Jersey to warm up so we can get fishing. Did I mention that the UpRiggers are awesome? We love them!

Need to order more of those bars as soon as the new lure heads come in.

Rob

[Squidnation]

BB - Last week we ran into Tunas nailing the Flying fish in North Carolina. I know we did not fish a typical Carolina spread but the results were phenominal. Most of the action came on the Electric Blue Mauler Bar in 7 and 9 inch and the 9 in electric blue Dropper chain with bally/combos rigged behind them. We had other colored bars out their but quickly pulled them in favor of the blue bars once we saw they were getting ambushed. I have noticed that the electric Blue squids do well in Bluer water. They were a huge hit in a transient trip from Lauderdale to MHC last year and again on the tunas in the stream bluewater of carolina last week. But green, Pink, Nautral and rasta maulers tend to do better in the typical blended green water we fishing up hear in OC.

[Captain Fred Archer]

Squidly,

I'm not much on colors and tend to be happy with whatever light and whatever dark colors are aboard, but I have to admit that I have seen the blue and white thing happen when the tunas and even marlin are on flyers. If they are eating the little "dragonfly" sizes the dark colors seem to work better for me, though. And oddly enough, black and purple seems to catch right along with blue and white when the tunas are on the bigger flyboys.

For me, blue water and flyers seem to go together. I don't find many in the green, at least not huge bunches of them. A bunch of big tunas feeding on big numbers of flyers is a sight to see, isn't it? Some of my most unforgetable days ever were spent sitting up in the tuna tower, watching and even listening to the bedlam happening for 360 degrees around the boat while my anglers were busy fighting fish. Considering the air they can get, it's too bad tunas so rarely jump when hooked. Somehow frigates from far and wide see, smell, sense, or whatever one of these tuna/flyer shows and before you know it, the "Sky Pilots" are screaming and cursing and diving and competing with the big tunas for airborn flyers. I have had excited frigates actually dive thru my tower when this is going on and I can vividly recall one time when a frigate and a 150# tuna almost did a head-on over a high flyer. The frigate spun out at what looked like too late, then followed the tuna down and was screaming at him and actually looked like he was pecking at him!

Oops, sorry. Just wanted to agree on the blue/white thing and memories of the kind of natural madness that sometimes accompanies it got in the way. Sorry!

Better be careful running them "Yankee baits" down there below the DMZ! And besides, everybody knows they don't work worth a dang down there.