Yummee Flying Fish?

[jfish]

Last year I tried several of the Carolina Bait Yummee Baits thinking they would be the ticket for "Dangler Rigs." After splashing them across miles and miles of the Ocean I finally gave up. Dangler squids and other baits produced as usual but didn't have a single strike on a Yummee Fish. I spent most of the season from OI north and didn't have near the flying fish as typically found further down south say HI. Wondering if they work better down south or if they work at all?

Has anyone else had any luck with them?

jim

[Tuna Taxi]

Down south off a dangler or a kite will catch a fish or 2. Not many flying fish up here usually so I think it's a "match the hatch" issue.

[Fishboy OV8]

started using them last year dangling out of OI and caught FYT, BigEye and a white marlin on Yummee's. We liked results and will use them again this season.

[HIT N RUN]

I'm not sure if greensticking counts Brian. But yeah We would mix um up some days & both seemed to get hit out of OI like B said. I don't think we had much luck above the 700 tho.

[Fishboy OV8]

Aweee Come on............... greenstickin'..........dangling... same thing right ???? We did get some fish on the yummies, and what an awsome sight watching tuna's bust their a$$ .


MAN!!! I ready for some more of that

[TommyTuna]

odd they wouldn't work well, after all, i have never seen a squid flying thru the air, but tunas sure seem to chew on them

[stickbowaterfowler]

I don't want to ask a stupid question but whats danglin?

[Bluegrass_fan]

I was in Florida this past weekend and watched a fishing show about fishing for tuna out of Venice, LA. They were chunking for YFT and once they had the fish around the boat one of the guys started casting a Frenzy flying fish with a spinning rod . He would cast it out, point the rod at the bait, take up the slack, and then Jerk the rod back about ten feet.

He would then repeat the process, but before jerking the rod again he would twitch it a couple of times making the lure jump. The tuna would usually hit the lure on the second or third twitch. They caught several YFT in the 75 to 100lb range and said that this was how they caught their bigger fish on slow days.

[Fishwagon.]

'Dangling' is using a center rigger as a small greenstick-type of rig. Make a large, homemade bird, that will dig in and plow through the water, then run it off the center rigger with three release clips, each with a dangling bait.

Im planning on making some yumee bars. I could see them being out of place in October/November, but after june should be fine.

[jfish]

We typically dangle something off each long rigger and it tends to produce. However couldn't believe nothing ever tried the yummee fish. Guess I'll give them one more try this season. Have a new set up on the set rigger and it will make dangling baits much easier and offer a few more spread options. I've seen those flying fish bars and I would think a spreader of small flying fish would be the ticket.

jim