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John, this tip came from one of the Boston Area charter captains at the SWS seminar I attended a few weeks ago.
He suggested that about five minutes after one of the other guys gave a tip on trolling live bluefish for tuna and sharks... it was during the last session which was kind of an open forum. The bluefish tip was as follows:
When slow trolling a live bluefish, sometimes the bluefish (being strong fish) get too frisky and cross your other lines. Take a pair of scissors and trim down the bluefish's tail fin. That way he'll be unable to swim around too much, not to mention that he'll try even harder to swim and really thrash around, thus drawing in the predators.
Then came the popsicle stick tip.
Whatever works I guess. I use eels and I'll liveline herring or mackerel. GS and I livelined shad for bluefish... that was brutal. Its not my favorite thing to do. But, I'm not ready for PETA yet. However, I guess I have to draw the line at torturing the poor little things.
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