Albacore choice of bait

[wayniac]

Was out at the rocks with a variety of fish caught, as we were coming in ran into a large school of Albies, We casted everything at them to no prevail any recommendations on bait choice would be greatly appreciated, thank you

[Rubberhead]

Ava 007, Deadly Dick small and reel faster than fast

[Jigman13]

If you're in the midst of a false albacore blitz, a free lined lip hooked spearing on light fluoro with a small circle hook should do the trick. Gotta match the hatch when they're finicky. Light drag. After the take just flip the bail with your rod tip down and they'll hook themselves right in the corner of the mouth.

[bulletbob]

small lures, ultra fast retrieve, NO swivels, very light line.. Spearing with no weight, no swivels, VERY light line, and bury the hook in the bait.. they have incredible eyesight and WILL refuse a bait at times if they see the hook .. Next time, bring your freshwater trout/bass spinning rod, and try some 1/4-1/2 oz white marabou jigs with a bit of mylar flash on them.. they will hit those things when they hit nothing else... bob

[Gerry Zagorski]

2X on a small Deadly Dick (1/2 ounce) reeled in super fast. These fish move fast... If you get frustrated by chasing birds dipping on bait only for them and the fish sounding and popping up somewhere else, you're going to be really frustrated with chasing Albies this way... This is especially frustrating with a lot of boat traffic around.

Trolling with small stuff like feathers works sometimes but you need to troll fast 6 to 7 knots.

These guys are pretty illusive and if you want to devote some time to target them specifically, anchoring and chumming with spearing is probably your best bet. Get out of the crowd, find a patch of your own fish with no boats around and chum with frozen spearing. Once in your slick cast out a spearing on an unweighted hook with a light weight spinning outfit and free line it into the slick. If you can net some fresh spearing at least for your hooked baits, that's a big plus. Fresh are firmer and will stay on your hook a lot better then frozen which tend to get mushy.

Good luck!!

[AndyS]

Use an umbrella net and load up before you leave the dock. Just throw some chum in the water and you can get all the bait you want.

[Skolmann]

My top 3 Albie baits;

1-4 inch pink Tsunami split tail.
2-popping cork with a 36” length of #15 fluorocarbon arbor leader to an olive over white clouser minnow.
3-Pink or sandeel pattern Epoxy jig.

[PortlyRedhead]

4” Sluggo in alewife on worm hook or jighead
Albie Snax in white or pink on a jighead (1/4-1/2 oz)
Rebel Jumpin Minnow in white
Clouser Minnow in pink or tan behind a metal or casting bubble
Stingsilvers in pink over white (weight by choice)

[Irish Jigger]

2 inch tsunami shads any color. They were all over them yesterday while on rainfish.

[rumster]

Caught more albies than I can count using a 1 1/2 to 2 ounce crippled herring from the surf. Braid to 30 lb. fluro carbon leader reeled in just about as fast as you can reel. Great fighting fish.

[wrktoomuch]

Do you let the lures sink a bit or just skip them across the surface on retrieve?

[Anthony]

2X on a small Deadly Dick (1/2 ounce) reeled in super fast. These fish move fast... If you get frustrated by chasing birds dipping on bait only for them and the fish sounding and popping up somewhere else, you're going to be really frustrated with chasing Albies this way... This is especially frustrating with a lot of boat traffic around.

Trolling with small stuff like feathers works sometimes but you need to troll fast 6 to 7 knots.

These guys are pretty illusive and if you want to devote some time to target them specifically, anchoring and chumming with spearing is probably your best bet. Get out of the crowd, find a patch of your own fish with no boats around and chum with frozen spearing. Once in your slick cast out a spearing on an unweighted hook with a light weight spinning outfit and free line it into the slick. If you can net some fresh spearing at least for your hooked baits, that's a big plus. Fresh are firmer and will stay on your hook a lot better then frozen which tend to get mushy.

Good luck!!


no one mentioned epoxy jigs. aren't they the new hot albie lure ?

[Jigman13]

Skolmann did on the 1st pg

[Anthony]

Skolmann did on the 1st pg

yep,..my bad...lol

[slammer]

I use a Variety of lures. You have to figure out what there keying in on.Keep the lure near the surface,super fast retrieve 12lb test works great

[WhaleFart]

Shimano Waxwing in boy or junior size...you can burn it back and it has great action and casting ability...also a sick lure for fishing the surf on west wind days...casts a mile and is an excellent peanut imitation.

Ive also caught a ton of albies on the surf using 1oz crippled herrings.

boat guys got it lucky man.

Best
WF

[Chrisper4694]

I found that if you tip your jig with a piece of human skin, they will hit it every time.

sorry everything else had been said already, do i have to put a disclaimer on this?