I'm no pro but if I had only one bar I would run it down the middle abeam your short rigger lures just past where your prop wash cleans up.

 

Couldn't agree more

 

I dont always pull a spreader bar, but some guys swear by them and pull 2. When I do pull it i like to run in in the middle of the spread in the short shotgun position. I like the bar to be slightly raised out of the water, I dont think that they swim very well when the bar is in the water. But I dont usually start my mornings with a bar in the spread. If the guys are running the greensticks my bar usually ends up in the spread.

Another thing is the bars work in different places on different boats. move it around and experiment with what it looks like behind your wake. I see guys down south that pull them in the wwb and i cant figure that out?




Taylor

 

For Tuna fishing, I've grown to like three. One off each short rigger and one short down the middle. Everything else bunched around them.

They work...good luck out there!

Glenn

 

If you do not want to change your spread just run it off your short rigger.

Good Luck,
Fishduck

 

Position is a great debate on spreader bars and the short answer is keep experimenting with position until you find one that works conistantly. I run a 32 mirage with twin diesels. I get 90% of my tuna bites on the flat lines with a two nine inch rasta bars in the flat line position. sometimes I will run a single bar in the middle of the spread but I don't seem to get the bites there. I will also run them on the short rigger on occassion but really tight to the boat.

I have never really had much luck with bars off my boat in the long position. But others swear by it and I have seen it work many times. I don't really pay attention to the bar being in or out of the water. my feeling is that bars are put out in a spread to create a ruckus to raise tuna fish from the thermocline. If the bar is in the water then it will help create noise. good luck

 

Shortrigger right behind your flatline.

 

We now pull 3 bars most of the time. We run a 9 rod spread, bars on both short riggers and a bar down the middle off of the bridge/rocket launcher. For us the short riggers are in fairly close and are flats are just in front of the bars, when the tuna come up and start to pile on the bars both shorts get hit. The bar down the middle is 2 waves behind the short riggers and the long riggers are just behind the middle bar. We seem to catch a lot more tuna running the bars. When the nice BF are around we also catch as many on the bars as we do a way back line. That is just what works for us. A little tip, are hook baits behind the bars are always green machines with mustad stainless double hooks, we don't loose much on those hooks.

 

In my opinion Whitebite has it right. I ran two bars in the flat line position last weekend and they got crushed. The rainbow did slightly better than the blue and white. Both were 9 inch with weights not corks.


Billy

 

Thanks to all, I appreciate the help!