Bait Rigging Videos

What separates anglers who consistently boat fish from those who watch their baits get ignored or thrown? The answer often comes down to bait rigging techniques. Proper hook placement, leader selection, and presentation methods directly affect how natural your bait swims, how long it stays lively, and whether fish commit to the strike. These video courses break down essential rigging methods for both offshore and inshore saltwater fishing, covering everything from ballyhoo preparation for trolling to live shrimp hooking for sight casting redfish. You'll see exactly how professional captains rig baits for specific situations, species, and water conditions.

The instruction covers the full spectrum of saltwater bait rigging. Learn how to cut and rig strip baits from bonito, mackerel, or dolphin for wahoo and tuna. Watch step-by-step ballyhoo rigging techniques using different hook styles, wire configurations, and skirt combinations for trolling spread positions. See multiple methods for hooking live baits like pinfish, shrimp, pilchards, and blue runners depending on whether you're freelining, using kites, or bottom fishing. Each video demonstrates the specific tools, materials, and sequences that produce properly rigged baits with maximum swimming action and durability. These techniques apply whether you're targeting billfish offshore, kingfish on the troll, or snook around mangrove shorelines.

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  How to Catch and Rig Pinfish

  Captain William Toney demonstrates essential pinfish techniques that consistently outperform store-bought baits. This comprehensive guide covers catching, rigging, and presenting pinfish for maximum effectiveness against redfish, seatrout, and snook in grassbed environments.

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  Ballyhoo Bait Rigs for Slow Trolling Wahoo: Mike Dupree

  Wire and fluorocarbon leader choices for slow-trolling ballyhoo affect wahoo hookup rates through preventing teeth cuts versus reduced visibility triggering selective fish. Gore Offshore rig systems simplify ballyhoo preparation through pre-made components, requiring proper threading, hook positioning, and securing methods maintaining natural profiles and swimming action throughout trolling sessions at reduced speeds.

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  How to Hook Live Shrimp with William Toney

  Hook placement determines whether live shrimp survive the cast and swim naturally enough to fool selective redfish, snook, and seatrout. Captain William Toney explains shrimp anatomy vulnerabilities, why horn hooking keeps bait alive but requires gentle casts, when tail hooks provide durability over natural action, and how target species and conditions dictate rigging method selection.

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  How to Hook Live Baits for Swimming with Mike Hennessy

  Proper hook placement in live baits like blue runners, goggle eyes, and pilchards determines catch rates and bait longevity through creating natural versus struggling swimming actions. Mike Hennessy's techniques reveal how freelining, belly hooking, and strategic positioning address current strength and target species requirements for surface feeders versus deep-dwelling predators in varied saltwater fishing scenarios.

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  Ballyhoo Rigging: Australian Garfish Methods

  Ballyhoo represents natural forage for offshore predators, but improper rigging destroys the swimming action that triggers strikes from sailfish and marlin. Success depends on harness stitching technique, hook placement, and component selection that maintains bait integrity and natural presentation throughout trolling passes in rough seas and at varying speeds.

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  Bait Rigging: Cutting Strip Baits from Bonito

  Maintaining live bait offshore creates complications that strip baits eliminate while producing scent trails and texture predators recognize instinctively. Proper cutting technique regarding grain direction, blade angle, and meat thickness determines whether strips swim naturally and survive multiple strikes or tear apart, forcing re-rigging during feeding windows when keeping lines working matters most.

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  Ballyhoo Bait Rigging 8 Ways for Offshore Fishing

  Ballyhoo rigging variations serve specific offshore applications rather than being interchangeable methods producing identical results. Mike Tarmey and RJ Boyle explain eight rigging techniques addressing different trolling speeds, target species preferences, sea conditions, and whether natural presentation or dressed configurations with skirts and teasers improve strike rates in your specific fishing scenario.

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  Rigging Strip Baits for Saltwater Fishing

  Learn step-by-step strip bait rigging for offshore pelagics including wahoo, dolphin, sailfish, marlin, swordfish, kingfish, and tuna. This video covers species-specific rigging differences, when artificial components improve performance, trolling speed adjustments, and why strip baits consistently outperform other bait options.

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