Riggin out the small boat

[BYRD]

You just got a 24' cc with a 225hp outboard on a bracket. The beam is 7' and you have 15' lee jr. outriggers with single clips. You have a leaning post but do not have a T-top due to budget restrictions. You have 6 - 50W Tiagaras and one Penn 9/0 senator at your disposal.

Using the equipment mentioned above, how would you set a spread to maximize your overall offshore fishing experience?

[Gusman]

I have pretty much the same situation. Here is how I fish mine....

You will have to add a second clip to your outrigger in order for this to work. I just put a loop in the rigger line halfway out and attached a snap lock swivel. When you do this, you can run a long rigger and a short rigger. Just attach the short rigger to the swivel with 1 or 2 rubber bands and it will work fine. It is a pain when you get hit on the long rigger, and you have to re set both lines, but it isn't that big of a deal....

So if you do this, you should be able to run a long rigger on each side, a short rigger on each side, a flat line on each side, and a shotgun. This should pretty much get you going. When you get a planer rod, you can fish it on either side, just take that flat line up. Hope this helps.

[92 feet down]

Rig the two outrigger lines independent of each other. You'll be glad you did. Also, either install some flatline clips, or, like we do, just rubberband your flatlines to a transom cleat. Also, you can make a center 'rigger out of a PVC pipe with some hooks screwed into it. On our 23' World Cat we run 8 lines & two teasers.

[z71offshore]

2 port rigger short, long
2 starboard rigger short, long
1 flat lines
1 flat line with planer or trolling lead
1 down the middle on a Tiagra.

somewhere either on flats or short riggers i'd put a daisy chain and/or either a big teaser style lure with a small bait somewhere in the vicinity off of another rod. I think i've said before, i picked off a few sails that were teased up by the big Bart Breakfast.

6 nice reels by the way.