[Mushin Sportfishing]

dfish28 - never a bad question! Most of the times our go-to trolling spread in recent years on the Henriques 44 is an 12 rod combination of Islander-type lures/ballyhoo, Joe Shute/ballyhoo, and Reel Seat and Sterling Tackle spreader bars (squid if squid prominent, machines if baitfish prominent). Our short outrigger line and two lines off transom are Islander/Hoos being pulled at the back edge of our propwash (about 40-50 feet), and I'd say we get 50% of our first bites on these. Sterling Tackle had us test a daisy chain with purple birds and green machine rig this year. We now pull in the center of the spread (about even with our middle outrigger position but off our flybridge rail), and this has been deadly this year!