Industry consensus positions them as capable for occasional sword trips and excellent for deep dropping goldens in 600 to 1,000 feet, grouper, and the broader deep-drop category
If we were fishing on the bottom, there was one of these rigs and a bucket of chicken livers or some other frozen bait involved
Although the new range goes up to the deep diving 40 and I have plenty of these, I tend to stick with the smaller sizes during most of my tuna exploits
Named after the famous boat from JAWS, the Orca jerk bait is slightly past neutral buoyancy. With this you can reach great depths on structure, points, rocks, etc. with a consistent ripping action you can keep the 6.5 down 4 and the 8.5 down 8-10. For even further depths work the bait slower. For shallow presentations you can rip upward on the jerk bait, and it will continue to dive shallowly without blowing out of the water. Youll notice a minnow bait style action on the Figure 8. Youll notice in the design a wide back and V taper on these baits for excellent hook up ratio. In their season debut, clients boated 217 fish on the Orca. Enjoy these hand made and tested custom musky lures. The 6" Orca is 6 3/8" long and weighs 2.1 oz
All these lure combinations can be found in our Tailored Tackle Ice Fishing Kit
I was able to teach my wife, who had never used a baitcasting reel before, to both cast and pitch consistently in about 20 minutes
