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Hi GS, we use teasers all the time, wether using poppers, shads, jigs, swimmers, you name it, we never take them off when fishing with artificials. They are a definate benefit of fishing as you will double up alot, and usually the bigger fish will take the teaser. If the fish are finicky, they will usually take the teaser over the lure, because it may be more to the size of bait.
You want to use flies that are very sparcley (sp?) tied. as you want ot keep to a very slim profile in the water. Most of the colors I tie are white/red head, chartrues/white, brown/white, black/blue for night fishing, pink/white for squid and shrimp immitation. all chartrues, white/ green dyed hackle which makes a nice mackerel pattern, and sometimes I add a few strips of peacock to the back of the chartues/white and the all white. Just remember you can never go wrong with white as the color of the bottom of all baitfish is white.
As for the rig, we use 30lb test flourocarbon, the main leader is tied with a barrel swivel at one end and the snap on the other, we then attach the other shorter part of the leader with the fly already tied to one end, onto the top barrel swivel of the main leader, you want the fly to end up about 1/2 way down the main leader. We then attach our main line from the rod which has a small snap swivel to the barrel swivel. Attach the plug to the bottom snap on the rig, and you are ready to go.
This is a very productive way to fish, the only recomendations I have is that you barb down the hooks, which makes releasing the fish easier, and always take the fish off the teaser 1st as you are only dealing with one hook there and then take off the other fish from the lure.
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