You said it...."anything"! They love live bait........bigger cuda = bigger bait. Personally, I hate em.

 

I suspect Scott is going for a prize.

He'll do anything for a prize ....

 

TUNA...BIG YELLOWFIN, when you catch the yft and it goes into the death circles just let it keep going til ya see the big old cuder come up and take yer bait!

 

Tube jig reeled in as fast as you can rip it. If you get some chum going in the water first to get them excited, they'll be fighting over the lure. The biggest and fastest one usually win. They are a blast on ultralight class spinning tackle. The jigs I'm talking about are not like a bass fishing tube jig. They are a long narrow and thick spoon 4-5" long with a swivel to a single large hook. On the hook is a piece of yellw, red, or green tubing like shrink tube with a shallow bend in the center and angle cut on the end to make it wiggle when reeled. The tube is anywhere from 6-10" long.

 

Fish for a big kingfish. You won't be able to beat the big barracuda off of you with a stick.

 

Fish for a big kingfish. You won't be able to beat the big barracuda off of you with a stick.

LOL I was gona say fish for big Amber Jack.

 

I honestly don't know a single kind of bait a 'cuda won't hit, from small bait to large marlin lures. 'Cuda are very curious and are attracted to anything shiny, including shiny bling and jewelry if you are diving. Most people simply move on if they're swarmed with 'cuda, since they will hit anything and everything, a royal PITA. I guess you can stay thar and wait for a biggun.

By the way, I would advise against eating large 'cuda. They tend to be chock full of ciguatera and fish poison. The smaller ones can be OK.
sam

 

I honestly don't know a single kind of bait a 'cuda won't hit, from small bait to large marlin lures. 'Cuda are very curious and are attracted to anything shiny, including shiny bling and jewelry if you are diving. Most people simply move on if they're swarmed with 'cuda, since they will hit anything and everything, a royal PITA. I guess you can stay thar and wait for a biggun.

By the way, I would advise against eating large 'cuda. They tend to be chock full of ciguatera and fish poison. The smaller ones can be OK.
sam

what is to big to eat?..

 

put a CCA shirt on your hook.

 

Small Bonito, small Amber Jack, Tube Lure.

 

X2
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cuda tube! awsome topwater blowups

 

cuda tube! awsome topwater blowups

x2 on the tube lure, you can't reel the lure fast enough, just try and keep in from them. Serious Tackle has them in stock, was just there the other day. They are also really fun on a big noisy topwater. They will come out of the water with the plug in the mouth.

 

This big one didn't even hit a live bait, it was just a big cuda hanging around the partyboat. I forget what it bit on. The mate stuck him good.

 

let me guess....head mount?

 

King by the Rig

We let a King get too close! We could see the Cuda jaw architecture
in every bite mark.

 

first a gold spoon, then a rainbow runner

One time 12 years ago, I was picking off some rainbow runners at Big Southern out of Port A using a Penn 7500 and 20# mono with a short wire trace to a gold spoon tipped with a chunk of squid. After about the third one was in the boat, I hooked a real strong runner and about 10 feet from coming over the side that rainbow went hard like I've never seen and I saw a big shadow come jetting out of the rig legs ... boom, boom bam that cuda cut the rainbow runner in half and when he came back for the head portion, my little spoon anchored right in the corner of that 40# cuda... quite a show since I was on the Scat Cat and the captain had just told everyone to reel them up... so I got to fight it without any other lines in the water and the deck hands pulled it over for all the kids to gawk at.

Also, a medium size king near a rig makes a good snack, as I've had a couple get cut in half by 20-30# cudas and seen one that I would guess was over 50# help himself to a free meal... so maybe a stinger hook on some wire into the back of a fresh caught king would be easy to imagine?

 

baitchure hook with a democrat.........

 

I have a 58lber hanging on the wall. Should not have ate my red snapper. Had a replica made to specs and used the original teeth.

 

Bill Fisher, Not even a barricuda would eat no democrat, once a rattlesnake bit a democrat and it killed the snake.

 

This thread is pretty funny. I once caught a cuda on a spoon. I reeled it in slowly and lone and behold about 10 other cudas followed the hooked cuda to the boat. I kept that cuda in the water while the other ten tore it to shreds! I figured one dead and 10 full cudas was better than 11 hungry cudas.

If I catch a small one, it is going back out with 3 other hooks buried in its skin.

 

The small ones do taste good.

 

they are not elusive or finicky. just use the biggest hardtails you can catch.

 

We caught one off a 15-20# live blackfin while fishing for makos. Had a HUGE 16/0 J-Hook in the blackfin. Have no clue how that all worked out.

 

shibuki should do the trick .. cuda love them japanese lures

 

So easy EVEN A CAVEMAN CAN DO IT!

 

scott
when the big e pulls up close to the rig pitch out a live bait on a wire leader. that should get your big cuda for the fishing fiesta....ricky bobby