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Marlim or Winchester?
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<blockquote data-quote="ccsykes" data-source="post: 70567" data-attributes="member: 2288"><p>4ked Horn</p><p>Buying bait in a jar, now that is interesting. Also, it being pickled is interesting. The bait we use, if it is dead, is frozen, vacumm sealed, and maybe if you get the good bait, it was washed in brine before being packaged. But since your bait is dead, that does make a difference. Do you actually put the hook in the bait or tie it to the bait? When I am fishing with dead bait for grouper or stuff like that we will run the circle hooks into the left side near the tail, run it all the way through and pull the eye out of the other side so that the line is actually touching the fish. Then we will make one more pass, just a litt further foward and angle down so that the hook comes out near the anus. Next, insert the point of the hook into the body cavity. You will have to take a piece of thread and sew the eye to the bottom of the bait. When done, the hook will be inside the bait. This will keep it from snagging anything on the bottom. It will require a little more patience, but when the fish has the bait in his mouth tearing it apart, you will get a better hook-up. We use this around wrecks where exposed hooks are impossible to fish with. If you want me to show you how to rig this, I will take pictures and send to you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ccsykes, post: 70567, member: 2288"] 4ked Horn Buying bait in a jar, now that is interesting. Also, it being pickled is interesting. The bait we use, if it is dead, is frozen, vacumm sealed, and maybe if you get the good bait, it was washed in brine before being packaged. But since your bait is dead, that does make a difference. Do you actually put the hook in the bait or tie it to the bait? When I am fishing with dead bait for grouper or stuff like that we will run the circle hooks into the left side near the tail, run it all the way through and pull the eye out of the other side so that the line is actually touching the fish. Then we will make one more pass, just a litt further foward and angle down so that the hook comes out near the anus. Next, insert the point of the hook into the body cavity. You will have to take a piece of thread and sew the eye to the bottom of the bait. When done, the hook will be inside the bait. This will keep it from snagging anything on the bottom. It will require a little more patience, but when the fish has the bait in his mouth tearing it apart, you will get a better hook-up. We use this around wrecks where exposed hooks are impossible to fish with. If you want me to show you how to rig this, I will take pictures and send to you. [/QUOTE]
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