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Tackle Tip: Rigging Ballyhoo Bait with Luke Hickey

September 23, 2019 By InTheBite Editor

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Filed Under: Featured Stories, Fishing, Tackle Tips, Techniques Tagged With: Bait Fishing Tips, Ballyhoo, krazy salts, rigging bait, Tackle Tips

Getting Dialed in for Sailfish Season 2019

January 7, 2019 By InTheBite Editor

Whether you’re running the boat, manning the rod or trying to get your team in shape, everyone could use a refresher on making the most of your bites. In this video, originally published in 2017, acclaimed tournament angler Fred Hardwick outlines an ingenious, practical way of getting a fell for the drop back. If that were not enough, check out what the best fishing teams on the professional series are doing in 2019.  For even more from the archives, check out the bottom link– a 2014 round table with some of professional sportfishing’s best…. Have things changed? Are they the same?

More ITB Sailfish Articles to Read –

Fishing for sails in Florida is a numbers game. Those who play it seem to be getting faster and more efficient with every passing season.

Sailfish 2.0 (click here…)

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The Art of Sailfishing (click here…)

Filed Under: Featured Stories, General News, News, Tackle Tips Tagged With: back lashing, Ballyhoo, Captains, crews, dropback, florida sails, free spool, InTheBite, kite fishing, magazine, Mates, modern pro tactics, pro tips, Sailfish, sailfish 2.0, sailfishing, Showtime, South Florida, sportfish, sportfishing, Tackle Tips, the art of sailfishing, tournaments, winter

Top 3 Billfish Ballyhoo Rigs

February 6, 2015 By InTheBite Editor

Rig ‘Em Right: Top Three Styles for Ballyhoo

by Capt. Dale Wills

In the last 10 years nothing has been more influential to the way we fish than the use of circle hooks: angling techniques, leader sizes and rigging procedures have all changed as a result. Just as the way artists have unique styles when applying a brush to canvas, today’s top crews use their own artistic approach when rigging naked circle hook baits. Certain factors influence different styles in different parts of the world and so we’ll peek into the bait boxes throughout the billfish circuit to discern the methods to the madness of a perfectly rigged ballyhoo. While there are several variations [Read more…]

Filed Under: Featured Stories Tagged With: Ballyhoo, Ballyhoo Rigs

Ballyhoo Bug

October 10, 2014 By InTheBite Editor

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ballybug1The Ballyhoo Bug- Have You Ever Wondered?

By: April Huffman, MSc.

Hey! What is that thing? Did the ballyhoo choke on its last dinner? Or is it a mini sea monster? Anyone experienced in dealing with ballyhoo that come from the Gulf and Atlantic waters off of south Florida has seen them..the creepy whitish creatures inside the ballyhoo’s mouth.

Unfortunately for the ballyhoo, they are not its last dinner, but a parasite with a very unusual life cycle that sounds more like science fiction [Read more…]

Filed Under: Featured Stories Tagged With: Ballyhoo, ballyhoo bait, Circle hook Ballyhoo

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