Thru wire? Why bother?

[Dominick]

I have a purple Marauder that has been chewed up by denizens of the deep.  The more teeth marks it has the better it gets hit.  "It takes licking and it keeps on fishing."  (with all due respect to Timex)

[erikpowell]

Yep, nothing beats a Marauder when it's wahoo time!

[coralsea]

Could you write about the troll speed please?

[MFB]

Nice fish Erik, I hope to get back over to Fiji one day & have a crack at popping for them.

Rgds

Mark

[erikpowell]

Could you write about the troll speed please?

well this was a few years ago and no instruments on the boat but I'd have to say 12-13 knots.... on the fast side.
A general rule of thumb here is to go as fast as your trolled lure will allow.

GT's can be quite finicky though especially with poppers, sometimes preferring  a real slow presentation with big pops and long pauses, and other times a speedy rip across the surface. Can be either way.

But if you're trolling for them, you want to be moving fast.... and hanging on tight 

Thanks Mark! I'll certainly help steer you towards some when you make it back

Cheers

[Gadget]

Lures that swim in strange ways get nailed.many years ago when I lived in Broome we were experimenting making our first swim baits from a variety of different timbers.One we made from a mangrove tree branch with a bend in it (thinking we could just put a bib in a save a whole lot of timber machining to get a bend in the lure blank) well it was poo brown in colour and just flatly refused to swim any which way we tried  BUT It would kinda scoot left and right and roll around and you couldn't pull it more than a yard through the water without it getting blitzed. We nicknamed it the dog turd.
and it accounted for more barra,GT's and other assorted fish that i could poke a stick at.It now holds pride of place in my workshop.Through wire though was not the way .Just a hole on the angle twist the wire and then poke the twisted end through till it came out the back and 24 hr araldite glue held everything together.
We onlt had primitive hand tools to work with at the time (LATE 1970'S
The funny thing is that they now mass produce similar surface walking lures but they still don't have the same action as the DT.

[Dominick]

Lures that swim in strange ways get nailed.many years ago when I lived in Broome we were experimenting making our first swim baits from a variety of different timbers.One we made from a mangrove tree branch with a bend in it (thinking we could just put a bib in a save a whole lot of timber machining to get a bend in the lure blank) well it was poo brown in colour and just flatly refused to swim any which way we tried  BUT It would kinda scoot left and right and roll around and you couldn't pull it more than a yard through the water without it getting blitzed. We nicknamed it the dog turd.
and it accounted for more barra,GT's and other assorted fish that i could poke a stick at.It now holds pride of place in my workshop.Through wire though was not the way .Just a hole on the angle twist the wire and then poke the twisted end through till it came out the back and 24 hr araldite glue held everything together.
We onlt had primitive hand tools to work with at the time (LATE 1970'S
The funny thing is that they now mass produce similar surface walking lures but they still don't have the same action as the DT.

Gadget send it to Salty to make a mold of it.  He will send it back.  Salty are you with me on this?  I will try one out in Baja in June.  Dominick

[saltydog]

I'm in just PM me and I'll send you my address. I always like new lures.

[LTM]

Erik,

I too had a purple Marauder that Hoo's just loved and darn near distroyed, UNTIL one last troll.  GONE!!  Decades ago I was taught to hand pick my jigs.

Leo

[Dominick]

I'm in just PM me and I'll send you my address. I always like new lures.

Salty:  I knew this would get your juices flowing.  Dominick

[Dominick]

Erik,

I too had a purple Marauder that Hoo's just loved and darn near distroyed, UNTIL one last troll.  GONE!!  Decades ago I was taught to hand pick my jigs.

Leo

C'mon Leo:  Pass on the info.  What did you learn about hand picking lures?  Dominick

[saltydog]

I always tried to pick the ones that were drilled off-center so they had more action.

[Tightlines667]

Similarily, if I'm setting up a trolling bait with a wide erratic action, I try to pick the head that has the most severe offset center of gravity. Weighted 45 deg plus offset from center.  Conversely if I want a natural str8 swimmer or tight wobble, find one that is perfectly weighted, or close to it.

[saltydog]

If anything Dominick I will be making some trolling heads soon.

[erikpowell]

Erik,

I too had a purple Marauder that Hoo's just loved and darn near distroyed, UNTIL one last troll.  GONE!!  Decades ago I was taught to hand pick my jigs.

Leo

  ... famous last words eh Leo?  " Just one more" .. it'll get ya every time !