When you find a good pack of mahi, what do you use to bail them?

Thanks in advance

any bait will do. i prefer something oily like bloody false albecore or menhaden. we have used squid and ballyhoo as well.

bo

I use a small octopus squid with a egg weight in his bulb crimped to a 6/0 hook. Ballyhoo is the bait of choice, any bit off hoo is saved for this, if none of that then fresh hoo is used.

I've always done real well casting the small 3" squid skirts, but a piece of cut anything will work great once you get them under the boat.

When I steak up my tuna loins I cut all the blood line off. I vacuum pack all of it in its own bag then freeze. We took a couple bags last Sunday and it worked awesome, the whole school came up for it.

I always carry two slabs of False Albacore on board in my spare bait cooler which is packed with ice and rock salt (the rock salt keeps everything frozen solid all day long). I have this rubber tube thing which I wrap my bailing rigs on 3 ft of 30 lb mono or fluro snelled to a 3/0 Gamagatsu octopus circle hook with a surgeon's loop on the other end. When my buddies come with I tell them to bring a bailing rod with only a snap swivel on the line. If we run across the bailers it's only a matter of minutes and we're catching. I will try and find a pic of the rubber tube thing as it is really cool and convienent.

It is called a Tackle Buddy they work very well!!!

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Like Chumlord, false albacore has always been my bait of choice, but I've found that when the fish get tired of a single type of bait you can get them to bite again by throwing something different, like chunks of ballyhoo. I typically have a dozen rigs pretied in ziplocks, so if a fish swallows a hook or is particularly hard to get unhooked, in the box he goes and the angler can remove the rig at the snap swivel and pick up another rig and have at it. It also can pay to have something rigged to cast to a big fish, because a lot of times while you're bailing there's a big bull circling in the general area. Tight lines and good luck.

All of the above. Saving your washed out or short struck Ballyhoo for use in bailing is a good tip. Wait till you are running back home to toss it over if you don't want to take it home. It comes in handy when you find that debris or a weedline.
Dave

BLoodline from cleaned Tuna....works great.....I keep a box of 3/0 hooks at the ready to retie when the fish swallows the hook.....Bob

Sometimes if they won't eat, you're either feeding them too much or they want a different bait. Switch it up a little to keep them interested. My bait of choice would be albacore.

Brian

We brought up 25 dolphin last saturday with a ton of tuna scraps that we cut off of the carcass and the red meat that we usually throw away.

giving the baits a little action can help too. try jigging it if u arent already.