36" Splash 14 7" "DarkGreen" Full Body Squid Spreader Bar Tuna, Mahi, Billfish

Do you have a Tuna Fisherman on your Gift List? Give him/her what they really want for any special occasion! 14 FULL BODY Squids, NOT 9 or 11 7" Full Body, thick wall construction squids with floats, Free BAG, INCLUDES STINGER BAIT with 2 X SS Southern Tuna hook! SPREADER BARS CATCH TUNA, MAHI MAHI, BILLFISH, KINGFISH and WAHOO, This bar with its larger profile on the water is built to bring up the big ones! DETAILS: 1. USA made Stainless Steel spring bar with 5 drops, and my "Canyon" bridle added. 2. Teasers are 7" premium silicon full body thick wall squid with floats. Note: These squids are so heavy the bar still won't float at rest. 3. Hook bait is a matching weighted squid skirt with 1 3/4 oz weight, rigged on 40" clear 200# clear mono, with a 8/0 forged XXX Southern Tuna Stainless hook. 4. Outside drops are rigged on 130 pound AFW Hi Seas Grand Slam clear mono 5. Center drop is rigged on 200 pound AFW Hi Seas Grand Slam clear mono 6. Center drop has Thimble & chafe spring at top connection, a single unbroken line past the bar (in chafe protection) to a bottom connection to the 200# ball bearing coast lock snap 7. Bridle is rigged like the bar: with 130# for the wings, and the 200# for the middle, perfectly balanced for easy fishing. . 8. Birds are 5" hard plastic "exciter" style rigged in-line on each line. 9. Overall length from top 10# ball bearing swivel to end of the center line skirt is just under 7 feet. 10. Heavy Duty bag, mesh back and clear plastic front with full length Velcro bottom for easy loading, washing and storage. Spreader Bars with lots of birds make tuna go crazy! The purpose of a spreader bar rig is to look like a "bait ball" that is being attacked by fish in a feeding frenzy. This draws other fish to the "easy meal". The hook bait trailing the "bait ball" may have the illusion of a weaker member of the school that has become separated from the school. For that illusion I like the 7 inch weighted octopus skirt as the hook bait, just a bit smaller than the teaser skirts that make up the bait ball. I also sometimes pull a weighted skirt that matches the rest of the teasers. Another illusion that has been very productive on my boat, and for many customers in the NE is the larger lure that emulates another predator fish feeding on the bait ball, but providing the tuna with an easy meal, because the predator is busy feeding, not escaping from the tuna (such as my Green Machine style, or my 'Hoo Runner lure) both in my eBay store. When trolling for tuna I have 2 spreader bars (off each corner) and 2 bird/daisy chain baits off the outriggers, all the same color combination, to create the illusion of a sizable school of bait, being actively fed upon. The spreader bar may be deployed directly off a rod (use a 50 or 80 pound outfit) or the bar may be positioned and "tied off to a corner cleat" at the transom of the boat, or deployed off the first ring of the outriggers using a bridge reel. When using the "tied off" method of deployment you would position your hook bait off the rod tip close to the spreader bar teasers, about 3 to 5 ft of separation, or I use a small rubber band looped into my hook bait loop protector and snapped into the coast lock snap inside the last teaser of the center line so I get a release when a fish hits the hook bait. How you position your bait is your business, but that is how it is done on my boat. Now that you know a bit about what the spreader bar is trying to do, this is a new Heavy Duty 36 inch spreader bar. I rigged this bar with a 5" hard plastic bird on each lead to create lots of splashing and commotion and 14 of the 7 inch full body squid as teasers. The 4 outside drops are on 130# clear mono. I have rigged this bar with a trolling bridle that helps keep the bar straight while fishing. The center lead of the bridle is made with 200# clear mono. I recommend that the stinger bait be attached to the last squid with a rubber band, so when that BIG ONE hits, you are fighting the fish only, and not the bar also. The center drop is rigged on 200# clear AFW Hi Seas Grand Slam clear mono, as this will be the line to the fish if you connect the hook bait directly to the snap swivel. The final squid on the center line has a swivel - coast lock snap hidden in it's body for attachment of your hook bait. I use a 200 pound ball bearing snap swivel so it is strong enough for the hook bait directly to it, or you may attach the hook bait with a release device, allowing you to fight the fish only after the strike. This item also includes 1 hook bait, a matching 7 inch weighted Squid Body rigged on 40" of 200# clear mono leader. I have included a thimble & loop protector at the top, and 8/0 Forged XXX Southern Tuna hook. This bar pulls beautifully at speeds of 5 to 8 knots. We use spreader bars for black fin and yellow fin tuna around deep water off shore oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, and for mahi mahi, wahoo and bill fish along weed lines in deep water and over structure. They work! Incredible blowup bites! These have been very productive this year. If you have any questions about this offering, or about how I fish it, drop me an email or call 1 (713) 992-1134. International Shipping Now Available US Priority International Mail!