14 Blue/White 9" squid Splash Spreader Bar - Tuna, & Billfish

Details: 1. Custom engineered 36" Stainless Spring Steel bar with 5 swivels (3 doubles for bridle as well as drops) weighs only 3.1 oz. 2. Teasers are 9" premium silicon torpedo (shell) squid body skirts. 3. Hook bait is a matching color and size, weighted torpedo squid skirt with 1 3/4 oz weight, rigged on 40" clear 200# "Grand Slam" Clear Mono, with a 8/0 XX Sea Demon hook. 4. Outside drops are rigged on 130 pound "Grand Slam" clear mono 5. Center drop is rigged on 200 pound "Grand Slam" clear mono 6. Center drop has thimble & chafe protection at bar and ball bearing snap swivel 7. Center drop has ball bearing swivel and coast lock snap rigged inside the last lure body to allow quick lure changes. 8. Bridle is rigged with 130# for the wings, and 200# for the middle, perfectly balanced for easy fishing. 9. Overall length from bar to end of the center line skirt is just under 7 feet. The building it is hanging from is exactly 9 ft high. 10. Bag is the new H.D. spreader bar bag, with clear plastic front, and mesh back for easy wash out, and full length hook&loop bottom closure for security. 11. Includes daisy chain and bait (see to left of spreader bar in first picture. <Also available without daisy chain> Do you have a Tuna or Dolphin Fisherman on your Gift List? Give him/her what they really want for any special occasion! 14 SQUIDS not 9 or 11, FREE BAG, INCLUDES STINGER BAIT with 2X SS Hook! Includes matching daisy chain! 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 compared to many others! 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 6 inch weighted squid 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 sizeable school of bait, being actively fed upon. Many customers pull this bar off their outriggers. The spreader bar may also be deployed directly off a rod or the bar may be positioned and "tied off to a corner cleat" at the transom of the boat as a teaser, or deployed off the first ring of the outriggers with stinger as a bait. 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 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 little outboard boat. Now that you know a bit about what the spreader bar is trying to do, this is a new 36 inch spreader bar I make special with 3 double swivels on the bar. I rigged this bar with a 5" hard plastic "Exciter" bird on each lead to create lots of splashing and commotion and 14 of the 9 inch Rainbow torpedo squid as teasers with 2" yellow floats inside. The 4 outside drops are on 130# clear mono. I make the bar with a trolling bridle that helps keep the bar straight while fishing, while also allowing some movement of the bar. Have you ever seen a school of fish hold exact position while swimming? Me either, that is why the bridle allows the bar to swing some, but not "out of control". The center lead of the bridle is continuous one piece, made with 200# clear mono, while the wings are 130#, to match the outside lines. 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 Grand Slam 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 standard hook bait, a matching green/chartreuse 8 inch weighted Squid Body rigged on 42" of 200# clear Grand Slam mono leader. I have included a loop protector at the top, and 8/0 XX Southern Tuna Stainless Steel 2 times strong hook. This bar pulls beautifully at speeds of 5 to 8 knots or more. Add blue water you are ready to pull this in front of Tuna, Dolphin or Marlin. 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! California Prop 65 warning, This product contains materials that may be “known to the State of California to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity.” If you have any questions about this offering, or about how I fish it, drop me an email or call 1 (713) 992-1134.