Sometimes dredges become anemic, like when game fish go on selective feeds. A number of other companies also offer fine-tuning options such as plastic mullet, mackerel, squid and flyingfish. For example, it offers Mylar bullet/Mold Craft Tuff Hoo combos with a Split Tail Mackerel trailer, as well as straight Tuff Hoo dredges and Split Tail Mackerels. In addition, Strike Point offers streamlined trolling skirts and lures in various sizes, colors, and combinations to help “dial in the tease” when predators are selectively feeding on a specific bait, i.e., flyingfish, bullet bonito or chicken dolphin. The images come in blue, pink or silver, and in models ranging from 28 to 156 fish images. Strike Point ( ), another company in this market, offers double-laminated holographic fish strips (ballyhoo or sardine), along with high-grade-steel and -titanium collapsible dredge bars. When I’m seeking dolphin offshore, I tend towards sardine-like images, which I feel mimic flyingfish, a key forage of dolphin. When deployed about 20 feet back and several feet deep, they light up the water behind my boat, like two large schools of baitfish undulating in a tight ball. I’ve been pulling two StripTeaser 105 fish dredges - one from each transom corner - clear, durable strips with holographic baitfish images (choices include squid, ballyhoo or sardinelike baits) affixed to them. When selecting one, or a few, think in terms of colors and sizes of teasers that will best attract the fish you seek. Numerous manufacturers offer a range of styles and sizes of teasers. And despite what some newcomers to dredge trolling might think, there’s way more to the tactic than just picking a dredge and towing it behind your boat. Pulling dredges behind small or midsize boats with a one- or two-person crew is challenging, but well worth the effort. I’ve had fish come right to the teasers, where we’ve baited and hooked them either on a pitch bait or flat line.
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I’ve been pulling a pair of dredges behind my center console for several years.
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“Dredge” is the generic name for a spread of subsurface teasers pulled off the transom, clear-vinyl strips emblazoned with reflective fish decals, or a school of hookless artificials creating a virtual ball of bait. “Anglers who troll aboard small and midsize outboard-powered boats now realize what the big-boat guys have known for decades: Dredges raise fish!” Harry’s Fishing Supply in Miami, an ardent offshore angler. "They’re the hottest things in the fishing-tackle world right now,” says Harry Vernon III, of Capt.