Captain Dave Sipler
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RIGGING: "KING MACS, AND OTHER TOOTHY FISH"
Summer time, what is it good for?
For me so far, the inshore fishing hasn't been all that great. Not compared to Fall, Winter, and Spring. Or even other past Summer's. (I can easily track it through old photos and videos).
Summer affords even small boat owners the opportunity to travel calm seas to a near-shore reef, and do some live or dead bait trolling.
Toothy fish mean "wire" rigs
I just did two videos on how to make the local rigs for offshore trolling, via live or dead baits.
I'm a dead bait troller, have been for years and years. I actually prefer to fish inshore. I used to troll so much offshore, I blew up the same outboard twice, while doing so. (OUCH!)
So, I've backed off a bit, and enjoy doing so with customers when it's a nice day. And they have the sea-legs for it.
There's literally hundreds of areas from 10 to 30 miles offshore, either artificial reefs or natural hard bottom ledge areas off Jacksonville.
So far this Summer we've had some good days that were real fun, trolling near-shore reef areas.
My saying is; "have 5 pound box of frozen Cigar Minnows, will travel".
Here are recent video links via my YouTube channel of how I've always made the wire rigs.
Single Strand Wire: https://youtu.be/rw9YdqOlWCg
Multi-strand Wire: https://youtu.be/HJxYZOh_938
Shark leaders: https://youtu.be/MTEcCb8DHmU