Fishing Tips: Maximizing Your Outrigger | Wicked Tuna: Outer Banks

hi my name is Britt and shock board and
I’m captain of the dog house one of the
things that’s pretty vital to trolling
to me in order to get a spread to get my
bait spread out covering as much of the
water column as possible is my
outriggers these outriggers that are
sticking up right now once we get out to
the fishing grounds we lay the riggers
down so there’s only as wide as the boat
right now but once you lay them down
they give you anywhere from 10 to 25
feet of spread on each particular side
of your boat and what ends up happening
is you run your bait the line from your
reel up through these clips and then pop
the clip in run your clip up while
you’re letting your line out and that’s
going to give you a spread down either
side of the boat like I said it might be
fairly closed five or six feet you know
some of the longer clips that we run out
you might be fishing fifteen or twenty
feet away from the boat so what ends up
happening is if you have fifteen or
twenty feet on this side and you’ve got
15 or 20 feet on this side you’re
covering the potential of 30 to 40 feet
outside the width of the boat and a lot
of times these fish where they’re in a
really tight school one of your
particular baits you might totally miss
them on this side of the boat but debate
that is run up an outrigger on this side
might be the bait that comes right by
that school and that’s where you’re
going to get a bite sometimes if you’re
pulling directly over the whole school
you’ll get two or three or four bites at
one time I hope you learned something
from this fishing tip I hope it brings
you great success out on the water