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Originally Posted by Seajay  Any teaser experts here? I am doing a beginners mini-seminar on tying teasers and bucktails at RISAA's July meeting.
What hooks are preferred for tying teasers?
What rigging configuration do you use?
Any special tips?
Thanks! |
CJ,
I’m assuming you’re talking about teaser/droppers for surf fishing? If so you may want to give a little historic back ground about them. A good source would be Lyman and Woolner’s work “Complete Book of Striped Bass Fishing” which has info covering use of droppers/teasers. Before redgills gained popularity we used white pork rind strips, white bucktail, and saddle hackles in white or black. Teasers that were sparsely tied worked better than full bodied. Depending on the location and size of the bass that were targeted our hooks were stainless short shank in 2/0 to 7/0. Use of stainless prevented rusting hooks from turning our white droppers brown after their first use.
The Redgill popularity during the late 70s and 80s pretty much made feather use obsolete although there still is a time and place for hackles. Rigging starts with a 24 – 36 inch mono leader with a barrel on one end and
snap on the other. Tie a Dropper line of 6-8 inches off the SAME barrel section (lower ring) that your leader is attached to. Dropper line should be lower test strength than leader. Example: 50 lb leader – 40 lb dropper. When bass are finicky droppers will account for most of your fish. Double headers are common especially with small bass but I have witnessed a double that totaled 55 pounds or so. Some "Dropper drawbacks" are a shorter casting distance and the chance of losing plugs when fish hit your dropper in snag filled environments, when this happens you have a fish dragging your treble hooked plug through fields of weed or rock and sometimes it gets snagged resulting in loss of plug, fish or both. Has happened to me often enough to be worthy of mention. Shoot me any other questions.
DZ
06-10-2008, 11:05 AM
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