My favorite type of fish to reservation is, “mahi-mahi baby”! That is what we usually say during the excitement of transmissible mahi-mahi. These are tropical fish that seasonally migrate thousands of miles each year. Mahi-mahi are moreover tabbed the dolphinfish or dorado in Portuguese.
These unexceptionable colored carnivores are the fastest-growing fish in the world, growing up to 1 inch per week and gaining up to 3 pounds per month. Mahi-mahi live in surface waters and eat fish, crabs, squid, and shrimp.
Mahi-mahi are found scattered in the unshut ocean often in warmer waters near the gulf stream. The unstipulated strategy to find mahi-mahi in south Florida is to travel past the reef into undecorous water 200 feet or deeper in-depth but the mahi-mahi will be near the surface. Upon reaching undecorous water squint for Sargassum Alge weed lines, debris, fish surfacing or diving birds. Once one of these is found there is a good endangerment mahi-mahi will be virtually if it is the correct time of year. When fishing for mahi-mahi it is moreover worldwide to reservation sailfish, marlin, tuna, tripletail, and wahoo.
Once a good fishing location is found the baits can be pitched or trolled tropical to surface structure or activity. A six to seven mph troll speed is typical for mahi-mahi. This can vary based on weather conditions, types of lures, and the size of the boat. Some lures need to be in locations fish can hands spot them. This is washed-up by placing them far when or outside of the turbulence zone of the wake. Mahi-mahi can swim at over 55 mph so don’t be wrung to try faster-trolling speeds if fish are not hitting lures at slow trolling speeds.
Some boats reservation three mahi-mahi all day and others reservation 60 mahi-mahi. The big difference is capitalizing once one fish is unprotected while trolling. Alimony the fish in the water well-nigh 20 feet overdue the wend until a second mahi-mahi is hooked. The second mahi-mahi should be unprotected by pitching a shattering hooked through the nose tropical to the other mahi-mahi that is on the line. Once a second mahi-mahi is hooked the first mahi-mahi can be brought in. This trundling is repeated until the school of mahi-mahi leave. If the school is tropical to the wend a whole sufferer squid is a unconfined pitch morsel to use.
Dead morsel is typically all that is needed to pitch to the mahi-mahi but if the school of fish is not wintry switching to live morsel such as goggle eyes, cigar minnows or pilchards is a unconfined option to have. Once live morsel is used that particular school of mahi-mahi may not zest sufferer morsel anymore so it is a good idea to start out pitching sufferer bait. Some days the mahi-mahi are skittish and picky with baits and other days they will zest an empty hook!
There are lots of unconfined lures and baits for mahi-mahi. In some locations, spare attractants are subtracting to the trolling setup such as hookless spreader bars and dredges. Having good mahi-mahi trolling lures on workbench is very important so the first fish can be hooked which then keeps the school tropical to the boat. Pitch baits can then used to reservation lots of fish very quickly.
Here Are the Weightier Mahi Mahi Fishing Lures and Baits
1. Chugger Throne Mahi-Mahi Lure
These fully rigged chuggers are six inches in length and have soft pusher heads. The colors included are blue-clear with glitter specs, untried with glitter specs, and pink. These come pre-rigged with a 150-pound leader line and number 8/0 Mustad hooks. These will work unconfined to reservation small schoolies and large slammer-size mahi-mahi.
Chuggers and mini chuggers are my favorite lures to use for mahi-mahi. They can be used right in prop wash 15 feet overdue the wend or on mid-distance lines set out on outriggers. These work well without stuff rigged with shattering but are a worldwide skirt to place over ballyhoo. The chugger throne is concave like a popper and makes noise, splashing action, and unconfined rainbow trails. When going offshore there should definitely be some chuggers on the boat. A unconfined thing well-nigh these lures is they pick up fewer weeds than most trolling lures. They will defiantly still pick up weeds but not as many as heavy lures. If weeds are a major issue then run the lines closer overdue the wend and slow lanugo a bit so there is less engine turbulence.
In the video whilom I talk well-nigh how to reservation mahi-mahi. This includes both trolling techniques and how to pitch to mahi with live morsel and sufferer bait. The lures I am using include a chugger, mini-chugger, chugger daisy chain, nomad dtx minnow and little stubby. Good baits include ballyhoo, greenbacks, pilchards, goggle eyes, cigar minnows, and squid.
2. Squidnation Slammer Mini Chugger
The Squidnation Slammer Chugger is three inches long and comes in verisimilitude options of black, blue, blue-silver, neon green, pink, black-purple, and red. This squid morsel comes in packs of 10. I am unchangingly amazed at how well this lure works. It will reservation the little schoolie mahi-mahi as well as huge marlin. If you overly ask a lease tutorage well-nigh mini chuggers you will usually hear something well-nigh transmissible marlin on a 3-inch lure. It is good to rig them on an 80 to a 100-pound leader.
These are popular little baits that reservation fish of all types and sizes of fish including tuna, mahi-mahi, jacks, barracuda, and mackerel. Again these baits pick up loess weeds than most baits which is one reason I love fishing with them.
Custom Mini Chugger Trolling Lure
The squidnation slammer mini chugger is a good morsel on its own but with a few modifications, it works plane better. Subtracting a squid skirt and twinkle skirt tresses adds color, flash, and weight to the lure. The widow weight gets the chugger deeper into the water making it increasingly visible to the fish and creates largest rainbow trails.
Squid Skirts
These squid skirts are 4.5 inches in length. They come in a pack with 5 squid baits. Undecorous and white or undecorous white and pink are unconfined colors to add to undecorous or pink mini chuggers.
Pear Tresses Twinkle Skirts
The Boone tresses twinkle skirt is 3 inches in length and has a weighted front. Verisimilitude options include pearl, silver mylar, and chartreuse pearl. Pearl is my favorite verisimilitude and will add wink to any verisimilitude min chugger bait. Solid colors are moreover misogynist but are usually placed over morsel to reservation kingfish.
3. Daisy Uniting Chugger
The Captain’s Nomination Fishing daisy uniting is a unconfined lure and teaser for mahi-mahi. I like to use it as a teaser that is trolled a bit closer than the other lures. It is not just a teaser though as the last chugger has a hook. Mahi-mahi are warlike fish and will zest baits very tropical to the boat, plane when trolling.
This lure is rigged with a 200-pound line with ways that it can reservation the big bulls without breaking. Each chugger is 6 inches in length and plane small schoolies will zest the lure. Running the lure short limits the number of weeds that get unprotected on the line. Typically I set this tropical and it is the only lure that does not reservation weeds when switching sides of the weed lines. The undecorous well-spoken with glitter specs is a unconfined verisimilitude and looks a lot like a flying fish.
4. C and H Little Stubby
The C and H Little Stubby is 5-1/2 inches and weighs 2 ounces. The verisimilitude options include blue-white or pink-white.
This lure is lightweight which makes it good a staying weed-free and works at any loftiness overdue the boat. It probably works the weightier when set far overdue the boat. The lure does not squint that unconfined in my opinion by it unceasingly catches fish. This lure is very similar to the Williamson Dorado Catcher that I will review later in this article. I have had good luck with little stubbies so that is what I typically use. These moreover reservation lots of small tuna.
In the picture, I am holding a sexuality cow mahi-mahi. This was unprotected on a undecorous and white little stubby while trolling withal some weeds well-nigh 20 miles off the tailspin of the Florida keys.
5. Flying Fish Daisy Chain
The mahi-mahi daisy uniting has a 6.5 inch Bost 63 Mahi Snack skirted lure with 4 flyers. This comes rigged on a 200-pound mono leader with a 6/0 heavy duty hook.
Having a daisy uniting out while trolling offshore help helps vamp fish into the spread and is wontedly the first lure to get hit. Smaller daisy villenage are typically put way when in the shotgun position. This daisy uniting would work in the shotgun or on a line set a midway loftiness when on an outrigger. Flying fish are a favorite supplies of mahi-mahi and this daisy uniting is a unconfined flying fish imitation bait. This lure works as a small teaser that moreover catches fish.
The video whilom shows a worldwide dynamic found fishing offshore for mahi-mahi. Frigate birds follow mahi-mahi until they spook flying fish out of the air. The frigate birds then swoop lanugo and eat the flying fish. Frigate birds do not have oily feathers and can not get wet or they can drown. This is why they wait for baitfish to be brought within scooping loftiness of the surface.
If frigate birds are upper they are either looking for fish or pursuit fish that are not urgently feeding. When they hover low to the water or are swooping near the surface there is likely mahi-mahi feeding underneath the fish. In Florida mahi-mahi usually feed swimming into the gulf stream which flows to the north. This ways if a frigate bird is flying to the south it is moreover increasingly likely pursuit mahi-mahi.
Chasing birds is fun but not a guaranteed catch. Sometimes the fish are scattered and the birds are traveling so fast that you can not reservation them plane at a nine or ten-knot troll speed. This could midpoint that mahi-mahi are chasing scattered morsel or that the frigate bird is following, bonito, tuna, or in the worst-case porpoises. Low slow-moving birds are the weightier and slowly trolling by them and pitching shattering underneath and slightly in front of them has a upper endangerment of transmissible mahi-mahi.
In the picture, is mahi-mahi and tuna that were unprotected while trolling and pitching live baits. These were unprotected well-nigh 20 miles offshore at the famous North Waif of St. John in the United States Virgin Islands. The North Waif is an underwater ledge that goes from 300 feet deep to 29,000 feet deep in just a few miles. In the summer this is a very popular place to fish for undecorous marlin.
6. C and H Stubby Bubbler
This C and H stubby wellhead comes in pink or purple, blue, white and has silver mylar within the skirt. The lure is 5 1/2-inches in length. Stubby bubblers come in a variety of other colors including, green-chartreuse, pink-blue, and pink-white.
This stubby wellhead can be run any loftiness overdue the wend and will unchangingly create fantastic looking rainbow trails. This lure has a plastic throne and is lightweight which makes it unconfined for staying weed-free. This lure moreover catches tuna, sailfish, and marlin so it is a unconfined lure to have in the spread when fishing offshore! A strip morsel can be widow for scent but is certainly not
In the picture, my brother is holding a schoolie mahi-mahi. We unprotected a tuft of mahi-mahi that day trolling chuggers and squid baits withal the edges of thick weed piles well-nigh 15 miles offshore.
7. Williamson Shattering Combo
The Williamson Shattering Philharmonic has an overall length of 10-1/2 inches and weighs 15 ounces. The lure is rigged on a 6-foot 100-pound premium sufix mono leader with VMC 9/0 hooks. The shattering philharmonic comes in verisimilitude options of black-purple, bonita-blue, evil-black, Holloween blue, pink-blue, and lumo-black. The lure is a sailfish catcher that is used in combination with strained ballyhoo.
The shattering philharmonic with strained shattering is unconfined for recreational fisherman and is constructive at attracting fish. If the sufferer shattering is not rigged perfectly the lure can spin and fish will never zest a spinning bait. Moreover with sufferer bait, you have to deal with washout which is when the vitals of the shattering breaks untied which makes the morsel not troll properly. This is why salt is unromantic to the vitals of sufferer ballyhoo. Sufferer shattering can moreover be bitten in half and then trolled for a long time without a endangerment of transmissible fish. Strained skirted shattering might not be as good as a freshly baited skirted shattering but it is much easier for the recreational fisherman to use and still works great.
In the picture, is one manful dolphin and two sexuality cow dolphin. There is moreover two blackfin tuna that were unprotected offshore in the Florida keys.
8. Naked Shattering or Skirted Shattering for Trolling
Ballyhoo Trolling Bait
To make a shattering rig for trolling start with sufferer shattering that is fresh or that was previously frozen but thawed out. Alimony the shattering as unprepossessed as possible and in an ice salt brine. At a minimum salt the bellies of the ballyhoo.
Chugger Throne for Skirted Shattering Rig
A chugger throne is a unconfined lure to place over the sufferer shattering to make a skirted shattering rig. This adds surface whoopee to the lure and makes the shattering troll increasingly hands in the water without spinning. The skirt moreover helps the vitals of the morsel not get washed out as quickly. Other good skirts to place over shattering include the dorado catcher, sailfish catcher, and Ilander Jr.
Mustad 7/0 Vaccinate for Shattering Rig
Mustad 3407 Classic O’Shaughnessy Forged Hooks are unconfined for rigging ballyhoo. These hooks come in packs of 5, 50, or 100. These are the vital hooks that are used when fishing for mahi-mahi. For stereotype size ballyhoo, a size 8/0 vaccinate is the perfect size. When pitching shattering with a spinning rod a 6/0 or 7/0 vaccinate is a good size.
When making a shattering rig for mahi-mahi 80-pound fluorocarbon leader line is used. A vaccinate is tied to one end of the leader and the other end is tied with a perfection loop so the leader can hands be reverted out. The line on the pole has a whisk snap swivel on it that can hands be unfluctuating to the perfection loop. This makes waffly out baits fast when mahi-mahi are biting.
Ballyhoo Rig Copper Wire
This is 9-inch or 14-inch copper rigging wire. It comes with 50 copper wire strands in a well-spoken plastic tube. Rigging wire is wrapped virtually the vaccinate and then virtually the ballyhoo. There are many good YouTube videos well-nigh how to make a shattering rig. A shattering morsel spring can moreover be used to quickly rig shattering without the need for rigging wire.
In the picture is a school of mahi-mahi well-nigh 10 miles off the tailspin of the Florida Keys. One fish is hooked and the other fish are staying nearby. This was in the summer and the mahi-mahi would stay tropical to the wend and were hands unprotected with pitch baits.
9. Truncheon Baits Mini Turbo Slammer
The Truncheon Baits Mini Turbo Slammer is 5 ½ inches and weighs 5/8 of an ounce, the verisimilitude options include pearl-pink shimmer, pink-silver, and purple-blue mylar. These come rigged on a 6 foot of 100-pound grand slam mono leader with a 7/0 Mustad hook. The rigged truncheon morsel comes with a rubber vaccinate protector which spaces the vaccinate properly and offers some protection versus fish with sharp teeth.
Billy baits are unconfined to run far when in the spread. Any skittish fish that are not willing to get tropical to the wend can still find these trailing in the back. They are small and will reservation any size fish. These are the weightier lures to reservation backfin tuna with but are moreover very good at transmissible mahi-mahi. If there are not a lot of weeds virtually these work unconfined to reservation all types and sizes of offshore fish.
10. Boone Turbo Hammer
Boone Turbo Hammer is 5-1/2 inches and weighs 5/8 of an ounce. The pear pink is a unconfined verisimilitude for mahi-mahi, and other colors include blue-silver, purple-chartreuse, red/black, and green/gold. Bass Pro offers the same style lure style in green-gold and blue-pearl.
These are just like the Truncheon Baits Mini Turbo Slammer but are typically sold at a lower cost. This lure comes rigged and is one of the weightier value offshore lures on the market. In general, though if I am going to buy it rigged I will spend the uneaten money and get the truncheon morsel version. The rubber knot protector is a nice full-length of that lure.
11. Iland Ilander Jr
The Iland Ilander Jr is 6-3/4 inches weighs 1-3/4 ounces and has a bullet head. Verisimilitude options include blue-white, pink-white, blue-chartreuse, and black-purple.
This lure runs well when rigged with ballyhoo. Using a shattering morsel spring is the fastest way to rig ballyhoo. The morsel spring goes between the lure and the hook. The vaccinate gets placed in the marrow of the shattering and the spring then gets twisted on to the front of the shattering which previously had its peck wrenched off. The blue-white and pink-white are unconfined colors for mahi-mahi.
My nephew unprotected both of these nice manful mahi-mahi in July in the Florida keys. One was unprotected on a undecorous and white trolling lure the other was unprotected on a piece of pitch bait.
12. Boone Gatlin Jet
The Boone Gatlin jet is pink with undecorous spots, weighs 2-3/4 ounces and is 7 inches long. I typically start the trip when possible with two of these rigged and ready to run with strip baits. A strip morsel is a 3 inch by 3/4 inch strip of bonito that is well-nigh 1/4 inches thick. The skin of the fish strip faces out withal the marrow of the vaccinate and is wrapped with copper wire virtually the hook. Bass Pros Shops Offshore Angler makes a similar lure.
This a unconfined lure to use when there are little to no weeds around. This lure runs very similarly to the stubby wellhead but has a metal-head so it is heavier and runs deeper. The jet throne of the lure creates superstitious smoke trails underwater. If there are lots of weeds I stick with the lighter stubbly bubbler.
In the picture, I am reeling in mahi-mahi that was unprotected well-nigh 20 miles off the tailspin of the Florida keys. There was a good weed line and a frigate bird hovering low on our way in from fishing for tuna offshore. This was in early January and we did not see other mahi-mahi traveling with this one.
13. Boone Rigged Feather Baits
Boone tuna treat feathers are 6 inches in length weigh 1-1/2 ounces. These come rigged on a 125-pound mono leader. The colors include green-yellow, blue-white, Mexican flag, red-white, purple-black, and pink-white. Bass Pro Shops has Truncheon Baits Ahi Slayer which is the same tuna feather style lure.
The cone shape throne have reflective layers to add wink to this feather bait. Some people prefer feathers to skirted baits and these are the weightier looking feather baits available. These can be run empty, with strip baits or with ballyhoo.
14. Williamson Lures Dorado Catcher
The Williamson dorado catcher is a 6-inch lure that weighs 1.13 ounces. This lure comes in colors of black-purple, gory dorado, blue-pink-silver, bonito, Halloween, pink-white and red-black. This lure moreover comes in a 4-inch size.
This is very similar to the little stubby that was reviewed older in this article. These are both unappetizing squatter pusher lures. The dorado catcher does come in increasingly colors and moreover has a large incision in the rear of the throne designed to hold shattering morsel springs.
15. Williamson Big Game Catcher
The Williamson big game catcher is an 8-inch lure and weighs 2-1/2 ounces. This lure comes pre-rigged on a 5-foot 175-pound test sufix leader line with a 9/0 VMC hook. Verisimilitude options include blue-pink-silver, black-purple, gory dorado, bonito, Halloween, Lumo, pink-white, and red-black.
I like running small baits but like having at least one large 8-inch plus morsel in the trolling spread. These large baits will still reservation small mahi-mahi, bonito, and blackfin tuna.
Custom Rigged 8-inch Trolling Skirt Bait
The morsel rigged whilom is very similar to the big game catcher. Beads and crimps were used to have the vaccinate be located just past the end of the skirt. This reduced the number of short strikes on larger baits.
16. Mahi-Mahi Big Game Lure Set
These big game trolling lures are 9 inches in length and weigh 3.8 ounces. Colors include blue-white, black-red, gory dorado, purple-black, yellow-green and purple-orange. These come rigged on a 6-foot 100 plus pound leader with 9/0 big game hooks. A undecorous mesh bag is included to store the lures. The throne of this lure is very similar to the sailfish catcher. These lures are just larger in size. The Williamson Big Game Catcher kit listed by Bass Pro Shops is moreover 9-inch lures with 9/0 hooks but is rigged with heaver 175 pound mono leader.
17. Sea Witch on a Planer
The sea witch comes in weights of 1/8 ounce, 1/4 ounce, 1/2 ounce, 3/4 ounce, 1 ounce, 1.5 ounces, 2.5 ounces, and 4 ounces. Verisimilitude options include pink-white, blue-white, and black-purple. A 1-ounce size if good to run with a planer on a fishing pole. These should be rigged with ballyhoo. This is moreover a unconfined morsel for wahoo so be shielding where you are running this morsel without wire.
Fishing Planer Size 3
The Sea Strike planer comes in size 1 which runs 5-12 feet deep, size 2 which runs 10-20 feet deep, size 3 which runs 12-25 feet deep and size 4 which runs 15-30 feet deep. The size 1 corresponds to a once weight stuff used at the front of the planer. There is moreover a size 8 high-speed planer that gets tied off to the wend and acts similar to a downrigger.
I would recommend getting a size 3 or size 4 planer when using large baits. A snap swivel from the pole connects to the front metal ring. A snap swivel with a 30-50 foot leader then connects to the when of the planer. Drone spoons are typically used inshore on planners and skirted baits like sea witches are used offshore. In both cases, these are run on 30-50 matriculation reels.
When the planer is placed in the water the metal ring slides toward the when and sets the planner pulling down. When a fish strikes the ring slide forward stopping the planer from diving. If the planer pole releases without transmissible a fish, raise the rod and waif it quickly to put slack in the line. This should reset the planer to dive. When a fish bites the line tension may subtract so be ready to reel in the slack like when using downriggers.
18. Rapala Magnum 30 Diving Plug
The Rapala x-rap 30 magnum diving plug is 6-1/2 inches in length and weighs 2.5 ounces. Good verisimilitude options for mahi-mahi include hot pink, bonito, undecorous sardine, red-head, and silver.
When fishing offshore it is unchangingly good to have one or two lines set deep. This is often overlooked by many anglers who run all surface baits. It the fish are hanging deeper in the water the deeper baits can reservation their attention. Once one fish is unprotected it then brings the school up near the surface baits.
The easiest way to run a line deep is with a plug that has a large diving lip. Planers, as mentioned whilom moreover work to get the morsel deep. However, with planers baits need to be rigged and when a fish is unprotected pulling in the long leader can be a pain. Especially when there is a school of mahi-mahi overdue the wend waiting to be caught.
19. Mahi-Mahi Jig
Shimano jigs come in a large variety of sizes. These are fast sinking vertical jigs. For mahi-mahi a smaller 80 gram, 2-3/4 ounce is a good size since these will be used to fish the top 150 feet of water. Good verisimilitude options include woebegone anchovie, purple-silver, and pink-blue.
These jigs are a good option to waif virtually floating trash and thick patches of weeds. Sometimes the fish are there but are too deep for pitch baits at the surface. These jigs are moreover good at transmissible tuna and wahoo offshore.
20. Popper for Mahi-Mahi
The Yo-Zuri Manful Popper comes in sizes 6-inch, 2-1/2 ounces and 8-inch, 5 ounces. Verisimilitude options include pearl pink-yellow, ballyhoo, chrome sardine, dorado, holographic blue, mackerel, and red-head.
Using poppers for mahi-mahi is rhadamanthine increasingly popular. These can be tint far and makes unconfined surface whoopee and noise that can get the sustentation of any nearby fish. When the fish ventilator in the popper it brings them in near the baited pitch baits as well. If someone on the wend looking for something to do requite them a large popper and tell them to be shielding not to vaccinate anyone.
21. DOA Shrimp
The DOA shrimp is a 4-inch 1/2 ounce bait. Verisimilitude options include near clear, well-spoken red-glitter and natural gold glitter.
DOA shrimp and live shrimp are both good pitch baits for mahi-mahi. Most people pitch ballyhoo, squid and live baitfish but shrimp can be just as effective. Moreover chumming with shrimp rather than live morsel can work largest rationalization it can alimony the fish from spattering when they ventilator the baitfish yonder from the boat.
This DOA shrimp moreover works well for tripletail that are wontedly found on the same offshore structures that hold mahi-mahi.
22. Cedar Plug
Cedar plugs come in 4-inch 6-inch lenghts. This lure comes rigged on a 150 mono leader with a 10/0 hook. The verisimilitude is all-natural wood with a silver head, dorado, or undecorous white. These are unconfined lures to use for mahi-mahi and tuna of all sizes.
There are other cedar plugs out there are many variegated colors. Unfortunately, the wood is often low quality and many of the leaders come needing so I can not recommend the colored cedar plugs. This is a quality made rig and the natural wood verisimilitude is a good option. If you are taking a kid fishing having them paint the lure would be a fun task. If the custom cedar plug catches the big mahi-mahi or tuna it would make the trip that much increasingly fun and memorable.
23. Bost Squid Daisy Chain
Ths Bost daisy uniting has three USA Pink Mancha skirts from Elite Tackle and a hand made Bost #63 Mahi Snack lure that is 6.5 inches in length. This comes custom rigged with a 200-pound test mono leader and a Mustad hook. The pink and white Bost #63 is a unconfined mahi-mahi lure and is plane largest with the widow Pink Mancha skirts.
24. Daisy Uniting with Squids
The Mahi Magician daisy uniting has three, 4.5-inch double-skirted and weighted teasers on a 9 foot, 150lb test leader. The lure is well-nigh 7 inches in length and comes with a woebegone nickel 8/0 Mustad hook.
If these daisy villenage get tore up they are pretty easy to rebuild thesping you have crimps. This can moreover be built with plastic beads rather than egg weights in the teasers which can be largest lighter option if there are lots of weeds. However, the weighted teasers a increasingly visible to fish considering they go deeper into the water.
When the front squid is wavy in and out of the water it is a good loftiness when on the outrigger line. These large lures help vamp fish to the trolling zone and wontedly produce fish. Most other predator fish such as wahoo, sailfish, tuna, and marlin will moreover zest this lure so it is good to have in the spread.
25. Spreader Bar Teaser and Daisy Chain
Ballyhoo Spreader Bar
This Williamson spreader bar has 15 strained shattering teasers. The overall length of the teaser is 8 feet and is rigged with a 300 pound line. The only verisimilitude option is undecorous and white.
Spreader bars are usually run on teaser reels on the outriggers. The spreader bar can be run just as a teaser and once fish are raised it is pulled out of the spread. That is what most people do. There is moreover a snap swivel coming off the last morsel that can be unfluctuating to a lure with a breakaway rubberband. Once a fish strikes the lure breaks off the teaser and is reeled in on a separate fishing pole. On slow days these teasers can help raise all types of fish including marlin and sailfish.
Boone Bird Daisy Chain
The Boone bird daisy uniting has a 7-inch bird teaser rigged with three Boone air vision squid skirts and a six-inch sea minnow. The lure is rigged on a 250-pound mono leader.
This same lure can come with larger bird teasers. There are 9-1/2 inch and 12-inch versions. This lure has unconfined surface whoopee on the water. It works well to catch, tuna, sailfish, wahoo, and mahi-mahi. The lure comes in a Boone zipper mesh pocket.
26. Sailfish Catcher
The sailfish catcher is a 5.5-inch lure and weighs 1.13 ounces. Verisimilitude options include black-purple, blue-pink-silver, bonito, dorado, Halloween, lumo, and pink-white.
This is the same lure that is used for Williamson shattering philharmonic with strained ballyhoo. This lure works well with baited shattering and strip baits. The lure throne is slightly concave but less than a soft throne chugger.
27. Boone Dolphin Rig
These Boone dolphin rigs are 6-1/2 inches in length and weigh 1.5 ounces each. They come rigged with a 7/0 vaccinate on a wire leader. This kit comes with 6 lures. The colors include purple-pink, squirrel fish, undecorous mack, red-black, dolphin, and purple-black.
These are very popular dolphin lures. Considering they are rigged with wire they are good to run when kingfish, wahoo, and barracuda might be biting. The set comes with a 6-pocket lure bag for easy lure storage.
How to reservation Mahi-Mahi
The key to transmissible the first mahi-mahi of the day is finding the birds. Sometimes finding good weed lines or trash works. However, I finger much increasingly confident that I am going to reservation fish when a warbird which is moreover tabbed a frigate bird is found hovering low near the water. When a low flying frigate bird is found trolling in front of the bird while trying to directly run over the fish with the boat. Shattering can be moreover be pitched directly underneath the frigatebird. Using binoculars or plane radar can help find birds faster.
When trolling four lures are set out on 30-class conventional fishing reels. When pitching live or sufferer baits large spinning reels with 30-50 pound lines are. The pitch morsel is usually hooked onto a 6/0 Mustad J-hook with an 80-pound fluorocarbon leader.
Once one fish is unprotected alimony it in the water well-nigh twenty feet overdue the wend until a second fish is hooked. Pitch the morsel just overdue the fish on the line using ballyhoo, squid, goggle eye, cigar minnow or pilchard.
Squid For Mahi-Mahi Pitch Bait
Pitching a full-size sufferer squid or shattering is a unconfined option when there is a school of mahi-mahi near the boat. If the mahi-mahi are small a piece of cut squid, cut ballyhoo, or shrimp can be used.
Goggle Eyes, Scaled Sardines, and Pilchards
The weightier live morsel for mahi-mahi is a goggle-eye baitfish. During sailfish tournament season goggle vision sell for well-nigh $15 each. Goggle vision are most often unprotected on sabiki rigs at night time but can moreover be unprotected with a tint net during the day. I reservation all three of these baits with a large tint net. See the cast nets page to learn increasingly well-nigh how to reservation bait.
Pitching live goggle vision or pilchards are unconfined baits to use when mahi-mahi are overdue the boat. The baits shown whilom are a goggle-eye, scaled sardine, and pilchard.
A size 4/0 to 6/0 J-hook with a 50-80 pound fluorocarbon leader should be used with the pitch bait. Try to alimony the school virtually the wend by chunking cut morsel or injured live morsel into the school.
When trolling well-nigh four lines are typically set out. One chugger is typically trolled well-nigh 2o feet directly overdue the boat. Naked shattering or skirted shattering is trolled using the outrigger on one side. On the other side, a stubby bubbler, daisy uniting or lure set deep could be used. A small lure like a mini turbo slammer, little stubby, or small daisy uniting should moreover be run straight on the when 150 feet or more. This catches any skittish fish and wontedly catches tuna.
Make sure that lures do not have weeds on them at all times. You will not reservation any fish if the lure has weeds on it. Sometimes the lures have to be continuously reeled in to remove the weeds. Running the lines a bit closer to the wend using lightweight lures helps to reduce the number of weeds that get unprotected on the line. It is largest to have one lure it the water without weeds that 10 lures that all have weeds. Focus your energy on keeping the baits weed-free.
Cigar Minnows for Live Bait
Cigar minnows are moreover a unconfined live morsel to use for mahi-mahi. These can be unprotected in grass patches on the reef by putting chum in the water and throwing a large tint net.
Frequently Asked Questions
How fast do you troll for mahi?
The weightier speed to troll for mahi-mahi is 5-8 knots when using baits with shattering and 7-10 knots when using lures without ballyhoo. If I was just going to tell someone one speed to troll in would be 8 knots which is well-nigh 9 miles per hour. In reality, it is weightier to squint at the lures and see what they squint like. They should be splashing on the surface and going underneath the water. The lures should never be tumbling. Also, make sure they do not have weeds on them. Going faster and keeping lines tropical helps them stay weed-free. Often troll speed is referred to the RPMs of the boat. We go 2100 rpm for example. Sometimes a small transpiration in RPMs allows the lures to be increasingly visible relative to the wend wake.
What depth do you reservation mahi-mahi?
Mahi-mahi are most wontedly unprotected on the surface near-surface structure. The fish can be lanugo 100 plus feet depending on the conditions but fishing lines are rarely set unelevated 50 feet when fishing for mahi-mahi. It is a good idea to have a deep-diving plug or baited skirt on a planer to yank any deeper schools of mahi-mahi to the surface.
The overall depth of water mahi-mahi are found in ranges from 100 feet to 30,000 feet. If there is not surface structure mahi-mahi are typically found near temperature breaks where currents come together and ledges where upwelling currents can bring nutrient-rich plankton and baitfish to the surface. The predator fish like mahi-mahi are attracted to these areas considering of the baitfish.
How far overdue the wend should I troll?
A typical offshore trolling spread has lines set at three distances overdue the boat. One line is set tropical well-nigh 25 feet overdue the wend basically right in the prop wash. This line is easy to alimony weed-free and mahi-mahi can be attracted by the prop wash and find this bait. Two lines should be sent midway when well-nigh off the sides of the wend with outriggers if available. These are typically set 90-150 feet back.
The fourth rod should be sent straight out the when and is tabbed the shotgun rod. It is typically set 200-250 feet overdue the boat. A small daisy uniting is a unconfined option for the shotgun position. A fifth line should be set not for loftiness but for depth. A deep-diving plug or planer should be used to get a line 15-30 feet unelevated the surface. This line is typically set well-nigh 75 feet overdue the boat.
Where do you fish for mahi-mahi?
Mahi-mahi are fish that are found offshore near the gulf stream in the Atlantic ocean. Mahi-mahi are moreover found offshore of California, Mexico, and Inside America in the Pacific ocean. However, mahi-mahi are wontedly tabbed dolphin or dorado on the west coast. Mahi-mahi seasonally migrates thousands of miles each year and typically spawn in waters virtually 83 degrees. Mahi-mahi season in Florida goes from late spring until the end of summer. Some smaller mahi-mahi can be unprotected year-round virtually and good offshore structure.
What is the weightier morsel for mahi-mahi?
The weightier live baits for mahi-mahi are goggle eyes, cigar minnows, ballyhoo, pilchards, and scaled sardines. The weightier sufferer baits for mahi-mahi are ballyhoo, squid, bonito chunks, and shrimp. Lures that are the weightier for mahi-mahi include chuggers, stubby bubblers, and daisy chains.
Are dolphin fish and mahi-mahi the same thing?
In most cases, dolphin fish, dorado, and mahi-mahi are the same type of fish species. There is a pompano dolphinfish that is found is inside American that is wontedly mistaken for small mahi-mahi. These are the only two fish that are in the Coryphaena genus. It is moreover important to note that a dolphin fish is variegated than a porpoise dolphin. When you tell someone that you want dolphin for dinner they often squint at you with an evil grin. That is when you have to tell then you are not talking well-nigh flipper.
Is mahi-mahi fish good for you?
Mahi-mahi is a high-protein supplies that is full of essential amino acids and enzymes such as omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin B, potassium, selenium, and iron.
Mahi-mahi is considered a lower mercury fish. These are the fast-growing fish in the world and typically live for four years. This ways there is less time for mercury and heavy metals to build up in the fish. Mahi-mahi moreover live far offshore yonder from nearshore pollution. Personally, I think this is a very unscratched fish to eat with mahi-mahi and small blackfin tuna stuff my favorite fish to eat.
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