How to tie A Ballyhoo Rig
How to Rig a Ballyhoo for Offshore Fishing
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hey guys my name is Matt and I'm
co-owner of the tackle room stay tuned
for another great how-to video today I'm
gonna show you how to rig a ballyhoo
this is a medium ballyhoo by sinister as
the bait company mediums are probably
the most common size we use smaller
mediums the first thing you want to do
with the ballyhoo is poke his eyes out
anything will work that you have that's
about the diameter the eye a lot of
people use arrow shafts or a stainless
shaft or something like that will work
this is actually just a deboning tool
that I'm going to use just to get the
eyeballs out you want to go right to his
eyes and just push we do this so while
you're dragging the ballyhoo none of the
eyes start to pop out that'll cause the
ballyhoo to spin or sometimes lay on the
side so we want to eliminate the eyes
for that reason the next thing I like to
do is cut some of these fins off this
also reduces drag and does away with the
problem of one might throw out and mess
you up the next step is we want to get
all the poop out of his belly we do this
because the poop has acid and the acids
will break down his belly while you're
dragging the ballyhoo
so we want to get all the poop out so we
get as much dragging time out of the
ballyhoo as possible that's a pretty
simple thing to do you basically just
run your fingers down the ballyhoo and
get all that out you can
once that's done you can go ahead and
come here and break his bill off come
just kind of ahead to where his mouth is
and break that pull that back slowly
that's a little piece of skin little
pull back and it also creates a cup in
here in the bottom of his bill that the
monitor lays in nice the next step is to
break his back a little bit some of
these smaller baits don't break real
easy and you don't want to be real
forceful and destroy some of the meat
but give it a good squeeze across his
backbone
didn't it moving down each time a little
bit more I also like to give them an S
this will kind of loosen things up too
that way he swims nice now the next step
is to actually put the rig in the
ballyhoo right here I have a 9 on
ballyhoo rig you want to lay this next
to the ballyhoo where the pin will come
out the soft place in his mouth right
here to lay the rig up next to it where
that pin is next to its mouth and this
is going to show I'll flip it over so we
can see it better this is going to show
where the hook needs to come out of his
belly so I like to take my finger and
Mark it and give it a poke belly right
there and this is going to give you a
reference of where to come out at next
we're going to put the hook inside the
fish you want to open his gills up and
you can go in either side run the hook
inside the fish you're gonna have to
bend them a little bit because you don't
want to tear any part of his belly you
want to find that hole that you made as
a reference point and bring the point
out
kind of shove all that back where that
weights tucked up there right under his
gills next you want to take your pin and
shove that through his bottom and up
through the top of his lip now I'm gonna
show you how to use a spring a lot of
videos demonstrate how to use copper
wire or mono or rubber bands which they
work great but for a beginner just
starting out sometimes the spring
methods a little bit easier and all you
do is slide the spring down let that go
over its face the pin that is sticking
out the top of his mouth catch the
corner this wire on the spring and start
to twist until everything's twisted down
tight next you would slide your lure
down the mono and that would lock in
right over top of this spring now your
ballyhoos ready to be pulled
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