Catching baracuda's

[gungu]

What is your experience catching baracuda's.<br />Which bait or lure to be used and at which trolling speed. Thanks in advance.

 

[JB]

Re: Catching baracuda's

Hi, Gungu.<br /><br />All of the B'cudas I have caught were by accident, on live "bait". <br /><br />Hook up to a grunt, yellowtail snapper, small king, etc. and play it long. They will cut it in half on the first strike, then come back for the head. YeeeHaw!!<br /><br />The people I have seen fishing for them on purpose use bright red tube lures or Rapala type lures that they can stand to have splintered.<br /><br />Good luck.

 

[snapperbait]

Re: Catching baracuda's

Tube lures are great as well as big krockadile (sp?) spoons... Can't beat live bait tho...

 

[Jack Shellac]

Re: Catching baracuda's

Well, everybody around here tries to avoid catching them, but would have to agree that most are caught on live bait. After that, a big, flashy spoon.

 

[St. Bennett]

Re: Catching baracuda's

Okay, look just put on a sardine, pretend that you are trying to catch a game fish off the bottom, reel it in real fast then there you go. You should have at least 2 or 3 of them on the line at once. One grabs the sardine, another one grabs the one that grabbed the sardine, and so on and so forth.

 

[snapperbait]

Re: Catching baracuda's

Oh Yeah! One more thing.... The more you $$$ spend on the live bait like $10 bucks a piece for goggle eye's during a Sailfish tournament or the more time it takes to catch the bait, the more likely you are to catch Cudas... (read with sarcasm)

 

[boating brad]

Re: Catching baracuda's

cudas hit anything that will flash, spoons work well.

 

[rolmops]

Re: Catching baracuda's

Hello.<br />In the Gulf of Akkaba we used to see 2 different barracudas.The young ones,up to 35/40 inches long.They used to hang out in schools close to submerged corals 5 or 6 feet deep.These you could catch with an old shoe.<br />Then there were the loners 5 to 6 feet long.They were over open water in 30/40 feet.These we caught with small bonitos or small groupers.They would make your line scream in the water.<br />Really weird to be diving with these big ones.They are not afraid ,but very curious and will come up and swim right next to you as if they try to make eye contact.