In article .com, Jeff
wrote:

Derek Moody wrote:
In article . com, Jeff
wrote:

I am doing a crossing from the West Indies to the Med and thru to the
Adriatic and some nice fresh fish would supplimennt the rations, anyone
got any designs one of these.

It's a paravane. It works like an otterboard or underwater kite. When a

I suppose mackerel spoons are the bait of choice for the chance of a
bite from most fish?

A rotating lure is OK for a while but no matter what you do it will cause
kinking eventually and you may be trailing it for days on end (in mid
Atlantic there will be areas almost devoid of fish then suddenly you find
huge mixed shoals.) My first choice for smaller fish would be redgill-type
sandeel lures - take a selection of sizes. Next a selection of soft plastic
shads and - only if you are rigging to a big-game rod and willing to take
way off if a big fish hits, a Kona head or similar big slider on a steel
trace. If you find a big shoal of small fish hook one of those, live, and
trail it behind an 80lb test rod and you might get a billfish or big tuna.
Do you ship a pan big enough to fry a six-foot fillet?

Hth. Cheerio,

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