Captain Judy's Surplus Tackle "Sale!"
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Being sent in the February 19, 2007 fishing report Captain Judy's Surplus Tackle "Sale!" I have quite a bite of leftover tackle that I would like to sell. The tackle consists of grapnels anchors for both up to 23 foot ($53.00 unrigged $85 rigged) and over 24 feet plus ($65.00 unrigged and $95.00 rigged) size boats. (They are pre-rigged with 100-foot anchor ropes and ready to go. I can just ship anchors unrigged. I have several different size double hook bottom rigs ranging from 20, 50, and 80 pound test. ($2.00 each) All you have to add is water, sinker, and fish. I have numerous different size pre-rigged shark rigs that would work for large shark from 5 feet to up to 10 feet long. ($5.00 to $9.00 each) Our largest shark caught last year weight in at around 400 pounds and was about 11 feet long. I have also had custom-made mackerel bug lures, which work quite well when trolling for both Spanish and kings. ($2.00 Each) They come in Junior and Senior sizes. These lures are pre-rigged with leader wire and come with complete instructions for proper usage. I have also a tarpon/large bottom fish rigs in stock. ($2.00 each) My old-time two-hook flounder bottom rig has made a hit with the fish as well as the fisherman still in stock. ($2.00 each) I have a few 360 degree rig left going for $2.00 each. I have my old time Cobia jig for $2.00 each. Spanish Mackerel top water trolling rigs $5.00 each. I have a few spec rigs, which I use inshore bottom fishing for whiting and sea trout. Believe it or not, but they also work for vermilion snapper offshore for $2.00 each. My "tooth pick rig," which is a wonder in itself is $1.00 each. All lures come with instructions on how to use them so as to get the best biting results. For those that want a detailed list of these lures I will be happy to mail it to you. Captain Judy's Surplus Tackle List All tackle comes with detail information offering
up the best suggestions for getting best biting results! Sales Tax, handling, and postage not included! Captain Judy's Completely Rigged Grapnel Anchor,
anchor rope, and protected hose Best for boats 23 feet and under This is a great anchor when planning to fish any sort of freestanding structure such as wrecks and debris. It's also good for just plain old dragging so as to find to the spot that you have been looking years for. You can purchase anchor only or completely rigged! All you have to add is water! SALES TAX INCLUDED $85.00 "Rigged 100 feet 3/8" rope This is not a regular anchor. It's designed so that you can get it out of the structure! When you are ready to pull anchor we always suggest trying to retrieve it the normal way, which is to pull your bow up semi-over the anchor, give it a little slack, and it should quickly come out of the structure. However, after giving this procedure a try and you find that you are stuck in the structure, "no problem." All you have to do is to "slowly back down" (reverse your engine) and the anchor will do it job, which is too break-free. The good news is that it's easy to re-set and if you do happen to bend the "tines" you can straighten them. This is not one of those anchors in which the tines will easily break-off! (This anchor does not replace your regular style anchor. It works for anchoring on structure not mud or sand!)
Best for boats 24 feet and over This is a great anchor when planning to fish any
sort of freestanding structure such as wrecks and debris. It's also good
for just plain old dragging so as to find to the spot that you have been
looking years for. You can purchase anchor only or completely rigged! All
you have to add is water! $95.00 "Rigged 100 feet ½" rope This is not a regular anchor. It's designed so that you can get it out of the structure! When you are ready to pull anchor we always suggest trying to retrieve it the normal way, which is to pull your bow up semi-over the anchor, give it a little slack, and it should quickly come out of the structure. However, after giving this procedure a try and you find that you are stuck in the structure, "no problem." All you have to do is to "slowly back down" (reverse your engine) and the anchor will do it job, which is too break-free. The good news is that it's easy to re-set and if you do happen to bend the "tines" you can straighten them. This is not one of those anchors in which the tines will easily break-off! (This anchor does not replace your regular style anchor. It works for anchoring on structure not mud or sand!) Captain Judy's two 360-degree line www.missjudycharters.com Price $2.00@ 10/0 circle hook, 20-pound test leader, swivel, and egg sinker This rig is simple! However, it's the way you use it that makes it work! How to use The best bait to use is a live one. However, fresh or even real dead will also work. When using live bait, such as yellow tail, spots, menhaden, place the hook under the chin area and bring it through the top of the fish's head. This allows your bait to swim freely attracting the big boys! The secret to making this rig work is to make sure you attached bait doesn't spin, which scares off your potential catch. When using cut fish (fillets/parts/etc) it's important that cut it's so that it's streamline as possible. This allows the current to flow more naturally around the bait. 360 degree's History Captain Judy's Circle Hook Tarpon/big bottom fish www.missjudycharters.com 14/0 circle hook, 80-pound test leader, swivel, and egg sinker This is a great rig to use in the sounds, beachfronts, and offshore. The best bait to use is going to be one that is alive. For tarpon menhaden, mullet, crab, sand perch, and eels are all great live baits when targeting tarpon. The rule of thumb to remember is that the tarpon "sucks in and swallow its meal in the whole stage!" Keeping that in mind, the size of bait that you use is going to be very important. Chumming is another way to get the attentions of
a tarpon. They will follow a chum line right to your anchor boat.
Fishermen have come up with different ideas about chumming. Some take a
grinder and grind up all extra baitfish such as menhaden and mullet. While
others just cut them up on the old cutting board. It all works! Menhaden
is going to be you best "tarpon crowd drawer!" The menhaden is a
fish that is full of fish oils that last and are very luring to a tarpon.
During seasonal time for tarpon you can bet that where you have shrimp
boats dragging and dumping their by-catch you will have a prefect
per-chummed area for tarpon and large shark. So I don't suggest swimming
here! Captain Judy's #2 planer Please add swivel to back of planer, then 20 pound test leader, and then attach lure. Suggested lures: Clark spoons, Drone Spoons, and almost any lure with work Price $5.00@ Captain Judy's #3 planer Please add swivel to back of planer, then 20 to 80 pound test leader, and then attach lure. Suggested lures: Clark spoons, Drone Spoons, and almost any lure with work Price $6.00@ Captain Judy's Cobia Lure Although simple in appearance this lure is very
complex in design. The hair mixed along with the screw tail type lure when
retrieved fast or slow works together making what isn't real "alive
looking!" Price $2.00@
www.missjudycharters.com Inshore and Offshore This lure works best inshore when tipped with small pieces of shrimp or fish. While using offshore I add addition needed weight so as to take it to or near the bottom. I tip the hooks with small piece of cut squid or fish. Price $2.50@ Dollar Store Rig www.missjudycharters.com I have to admit this is an unusual looking rig!
The bottom line to this rig is the fact that it's very simple to use. All
you have to add is the hook of your choice, attach it to your main line,
and bait up! It really doesn't matter in regards to the type of bait used,
because this rig does its own thing when it comes to attracting fish! Once
you take a closer look you will understand why it works! The attached
float is adjustable meaning you can move it as close to the chosen bait as
you would like. However, there is one thing for sure when going with this
type of rig design, "your bait is going to move in step with the
natural motion provided!" Believe me you aren't going to ever get so
much for so little effort or cost! One Dollar, please! Captain Judy's Spanish mackerel Trolling Rig Price: $5.00@ Inshore and offshore Although it called a Spanish mackerel rig we have
caught many other species while pulling this rig. It's so simple to use!
Enclosed is a "popping cork," which has a Clark spoon attached.
All you have to do is to attach this rig to your main line and pull it
behind the boat. The cork really does attract the fish. If you don't
believe it, take a look at your cork after you have pulled it a while.
There should be evidence of bite marks all over the float. The best speed
is around 5 knots. The better speed is the one that works. As far a
distance from the boat I suggest trying different distances. I prefer
pulling this rig around 50 to 75 feet. Captain Judy's Flounder rig www.missjudycharters.com Inshore and Beachfronts Attach the first three-way swivel to your main line. For bait any kind of dead or live will work. However, live bait such as mud minnow, shrimp, or small baitfish is going to be your best choices. Dead baits such as shrimp pieces and fish strips are also good. The best hook placement can be ascertained by trial and error: place the hook through the lips, tails, or mid sections of live bait. When using the dead stuff I suggest cutting it streamline like so that it will flow in the current. Drifting techniques: All light tackle rod/reels that we have talked about with work for flounder catching: The trout rod will work, but I prefer using my spinning rod with targeting this fish. Captain Judy Inshore Bottom Rigs 20-pound test with 1/0 kale hooks Captain Judy offshore Bottom Rigs 50-pound with 2/0 hooks Captain Judy offshore Bottom Rigs 80-pound leader with 4/0 hooks Price: $3.00@ Inshore and offshore charts Captain Judy's Shark Rigs Price $9.00@ Captain Judy's Shark Rigs Mega Shark Rigs 13/0 circle hook with 6-½ foot cable leader. Please remember don't set the hook. Captain Judy's Shark Rigs Price $5.00 @ 12/0 "J" style hook with 6-½ foot cable leader. Please remember don't set the hook. Captain Judy's Shark Rigs Price $5.00 @ 12/0 "J" style hook with 6-½ foot
cable leader. Please remember don't set the hook. Captain Judy's Shark Rigs 10/0 "J" style hook with 6-½ foot cable leader. Please remember don't set the hook. Captain Judy's Mega Shark Rigs Price $9.00 @ 16/0 circle hook with 12 foot leader consisting of heavy duty 49 strand flexible cable and heavy duty monofilament line, please remember with this rig you don't set the hook Captain Judy's Mackerel Bugs Seniors & Junior Sizes Back in the old days long before all these different style lures, spoons, and live baits came into to play there what I called the "King Mackerel Bug!" It's a simple design! Believe me it doesn't look like much. However, I have seen it work time and time again. Every lure has something to offer a fish, which is why it works. In this case all that's offered is a piece of wire, a little hair and a single hook. The combination of these three parts makes it the "Old Style Mackerel Lure Of All Times!" Here I go talking about yesteryear. Well, I have to say in my defense that when you "get a little age on you that will happen from time to time!" At any rate, a commercial fisherman first introduced me to this simple lure. I'm sorry but I can't remember his name. I certainly would love to give him some sort of credit for passing this great information on to me. I was very young at the time. This was the only bait he used to catch king mackerel. When he would come in from fishing he had some "whoppers" in the cooler. Back in the day all fish might have looked big to me. I do remember him having lot of what I would call now "snakes and teenagers." Snakes are king mackerel that weight in at 10 pounds or less. The teenagers are those kings that weight in the teen numbers. "Whoppers" are called "Smokers," which fall into any fish weighting in at over 20 pounds. The twenty-pound kings are big, but when you get into the thirty plus "smokes and whoops" come to mind. Here's how you work the old "King Mackerel Bug" set up. There is approximately 4 feet of 50-pound test wire attached. Attach the wire loop to your main line. I have both main line monofilament and wire. Both applications will work. You are going to troll this lure just like you do all the others with the exception of one thing. The line you are trolling needs to be as "in line" with the ocean's surface as you can get it. You can accomplish this by holding the tip of the rod down to the surface or there's another way. Let your bait offering out to decided distance, which is this case the further the better, but don't get carried away you don't have but a Georgia state fishing license. This line is what I consider the longest line out. Once you have situated your lure, put rod in holder, put the line down from the tip of the rod, put a rubber band around the line, and put over the rod's handle. I know this might sound confusing, but what you are trying to do is to level your line as close as you can to the surface of the water, which is what makes this lure work. When a fish hits the lure, the rubber band will break, releasing the line. It's the reverse of an outrigger, which pulls your line up and away from the boat with the aid of a clip. When the fish hits, the clip releases the line, and then you fight your fish. Let's assume you have your line set, there one more thing that the old commercial fisherman told me. He said, grab your main line; pull it, back and forth. The best time to do this is when you think that you have arrived in "mackerel country!" When the fish hits it, don't try to control the fish, just drop the line, pick up your rod, and let the fight begin! It sounds simple, because it is! The only different between seniors and juniors is that one lure has a larger hook. You already know which one! I need to share one more think in regards to this "commercial style lure," the fish don't know that it's just for mackerel. With that being said, "any fish just might hit it, because they have already!" "Shorten Up!" I explained earlier that this is basically"
way back positioning bait." However, when the fish no matter what
kind are schooling close to the surface pull a few "bugs" within
25 feet of the stern to see if you get any action. I have had tuna types,
such as little tunny and Bonita hit them! Captain Judy's Jack Rigs Join the ranks of those really knew what catching fish was all about |
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