[rambunctious]

My son & I fished offshore Mon.& Tues. Water was great. Hit blue water about 30 Mi. Had a few hits at 40 mi. troling around rigs. Caught about 6 baracudas. Found a couple of trash piles and troled by and caught 1 chicken dolphin. There was tons in there. Tried to cast small fethers but they would only follow them,no fish.
If you fellow fisherman could help I would appreciate it. What do you use to catch the chickens with. We used every feather we had. Any suggestions???
Terry Sr. & Jr.

 

[Captain Blood]

When everything else fails, I tie a hood directly on the line and bait with piece of cut bait.. works for ling also..... Has not missed yet....only draw back is toothing critters

 

[Capt. Lowtide]

Dolphin will usually pounce on just about anything you throw at them, cut fresh dophin seems to work best for me. Many times when the fish are skittish, there is something big nearby feeding on them and keeping them on their fins. Next time put a livie out behind the boat on a big rig and hold on!

 

[bigdaddyriverrat]

We caught around 15 of them on just cut sardines and cigar minnows. They were hitting on just about everything that they could get there mouths on. Did manage to boat a 22lb bull too, great fight i caught him on a light action Penn Rod it was a blast!

 

[michaelbaranowski]

me and BigDaddyRiverRat had a guy with us that was caughting them on his trout rod using top water lures. I think the lure was a "top dog".

I have been told that some dead shrimp work as good as anything plus they are cheap.

 

[NaClH2O]

On a recent charter, we caught several of them using a speck rig. Had a couple of double hook-ups, too.

 

[speckle-catcher]

also - when you hook the first one, leave him in the water behind the boat - the rest will follow the hooked fish. Sorta like "shootin' fish in a barrell".

 

[michaelbaranowski]

They are fun to caught but I think next time I get it a mess of them I am not going to keep but a few cause it doesn't seem like much meat for the time it takes to clean them.

 

[jd10g]

spec rigs

 

[Wildman]

Dolphin!!!

When their hot, they'll hit anything that hits the water. When they seemed turned off throw a hand full of small cut up chum in the water (shrimp, cigar minnows, cut bait, etc.) and try a small piece of the same on a small treble or single hook. I usually use shrimp. I was in a school that wouldn't hit anything one time, tried all the tricks. I had a bunch of live 2 to 4 inch menhaden in the live well that I had caught in the castnet back at the ramp. Threw a net full of those babies in and those dolphin lit up like a Christmas tree. Feeding frenzy....................

 

[Freshwaterman]

Last Saturday we hit a patch of weeds out of of Freeport and caught all we wanted. Started out using pieces of cigar minnow. After we got them going we were catching them on bare silver hooks ripped thru the water. When we left them you could hold a piece of bait in the water and they would eat it from your hand. What a blast!!!!!!! My nine year old had a ball.

 

[chuck richey]

chicken dolphin

All of these were caught 8-5-04 out of slp about 18 miles out. We only used speck rigs. It really gets fun when a good one sucks up one of the jigs. We stopped at 70 but could have kept twice that many. Half are all ready eaten.

 

[chuck richey]

This one came on 8-01-04 during the ska tournament. We were about 50 miles out. It was small but really lit up.

 

[zihuatanejo]

All of these were caught 8-5-04 out of slp about 18 miles out. We only used speck rigs. It really gets fun when a good one sucks up one of the jigs. We stopped at 70 but could have kept twice that many. Half are all ready eaten.

Nice Ling...

 

[lordbater]

AND they do actually jump right into the boat once in a while,
promise..
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[Santiago]

what's the limit on dolphin?

 

[Dutch Treat]

Limit?...........none, but..

what's the limit on dolphin?

How many do you want to clean?

Most everyone I know keeps it to a reasonable amount.

Bob

 

[michaelbaranowski]

there isn't a limit on dolphin. But I would think if there would be limit we would be caughting alot more big dolphin. I was told the reason there isn't a limit is because there life cycle is only about 2 years.

 

[pacontender]

There is probably going to be a limit.

 

[Blue N' Brew]

Limits

Hopefully there will be a limit soon.

Chance