SamFamAustin
12-18-2009, 07:04 PM
This might sound funny or gross, but there actually is a style of trolling called the "Bird 'n' Turd." It is more popular with the larger boats for marlin hunting, but one can sometimes improve your catch rate when looking for wahoo, sails, and other offshore denizens.
Most of you probably know trolling theory, in which a center pole is run "way long" so as to attract fish well behind the boat, its wake, and its bubbles from the propellers.
Other lines are run closer in to the boat on each side, acting like a school of bait being chased by the evil Bird 'n' Turd.
The Bird 'n' Turd is simply a Boone Bird with a Moldcraft Wide Range lure, anything in a black/brown ugly color of the lure. Any lure will work but legend it they have to be quite used, ugly, and rusty. The bird is a floating splasher, which is connected by wire cable to the turd - because of toothy critters like 'cuda, mackerel, and wahoo.
Tell the truth, for all the work it is rare to hook a fish on this kind of rig. They are meant to attract fish, with your port and starboard flat-lines and outriggers catching most of the fish. A nice feature is that because they "pop" the waves, they don't get weeded up very much. Hope this was useful ... tight lines, all. ;)
Most of you probably know trolling theory, in which a center pole is run "way long" so as to attract fish well behind the boat, its wake, and its bubbles from the propellers.
Other lines are run closer in to the boat on each side, acting like a school of bait being chased by the evil Bird 'n' Turd.
The Bird 'n' Turd is simply a Boone Bird with a Moldcraft Wide Range lure, anything in a black/brown ugly color of the lure. Any lure will work but legend it they have to be quite used, ugly, and rusty. The bird is a floating splasher, which is connected by wire cable to the turd - because of toothy critters like 'cuda, mackerel, and wahoo.
Tell the truth, for all the work it is rare to hook a fish on this kind of rig. They are meant to attract fish, with your port and starboard flat-lines and outriggers catching most of the fish. A nice feature is that because they "pop" the waves, they don't get weeded up very much. Hope this was useful ... tight lines, all. ;)