When trolling for toothy fish,  such as King Mackerel,

Wahoo, & etc., with a dead bait, use a basic stinger

trailer rig. Crimp a 90lb. #5 barrel swivel & a #3/0

treble hook onto 6 to 8 inches of 40 or 50 lb.

coated wire. The eye of the swivel slides over the

regular wire leader and stops at the eye of the lead hook,

and  insert the treble hook near the tail of the bait.   

Sea Sickness Remedies

Spooning for Reds -

Rigging

Few thing in Tarpon Fishing are as sorely Neglected as keeping

hooks sharp. There are many schools of thought on hook sharpening

such as, some merely sharpen the hook tip, most stroke the the entire

hook point. Others believe a single cutting edge is best. Such hooks are

only stroked with a file on one side of the point. The triangulated method

calls for the hook point to be filed on both sides of the barb, and on the

top of the hook , opposite the barb.

Natural baits account for tremendous numbers of Tarpon, especially from

deep water. The top natural baits for tarpon include the following: shrimp,

croaker, mullet, menhaden, small blue crabs, pilchards, whiting, & eels.

Live baits are usually best, but dead baits soaked on the bottom or

drifted dead in a chum line are sometimes very effective. Tarpon caught on

bait are sometimes hooked deep, so use a non stainless circle hook or

semi-circle hook, so the leader can be clipped and the hook allowed to rust

out. Most tarpon anglers believe a tarpon is more likely to survive if a hook is allowed to rust out over forcing the hook out from tarpon with pliers.