Daisy Chain Theory, understanding the different types and making your own

[skip]

Daisy Chain Theory by Gil Mendiaz - http://www.eastcape.org/Articles/DaisyChain/article.html

I was browsing the net and found an excellent article written by Gil Mendiaz covering the aspects of daisy chains, the std inline Bait Chain and the Predator Chain and the jumping chain. The article discusses how they are used, why they work, how you can make your own and where to place them in your spread.

It's important to point out that this theory can be applied to our local waters and fish by merely regulating the size and type of the baits used in the chain. Indeed rixa's used for tumbrell and lampuki are basically daisy chains, some use the inline type others use the jumping chain, although I doubt for inshore fishing the predator chain is used but it's certainly worth considering.

When creating chains for fish like Lampuki or tumbrell, many people tend to put hooks on more than one bait, and whilst not mentioned in the article as the focus is on larger gamefish like tuna, alungi etc, I dont see any reason not to!

Skip

[poxwon]

It makes sense!

[shanook]

U dont hook more than one bait when trolling for larger fish as it would be nigh to impossible to hold onto more than one big fish eh. If u are unllucky to have a double strike than u will be risking a line snap or despooling. so daisy chains are a yes yes but more than one hook is a no no...2 eurocents

[skip]

Good point about the why not!! Two 10 kgs fish would be too much let alone if they were bigger!

[robby017]

Two 10 kgs fish would be too much let alone if they were bigger!

I don't think so, because, unless they swim in the same directions jointly, they would be tiring each other and killing each others force thus tiring even faster.

[skip]

Doesn't work like that Robby, we have two 15kgs tuna, the first for 40 mins and then the second got tangled and they def didn't work against each other!!!

[robby017]

what i'm refering to is when they are on the same line.... not 2 differant rods/lines

[Jonathan]

Shoal fish, as are all tuna related species, do tend swim in the same direction Robby, so much so that with other lines like tumbrell we usually have a very good idea of how many fish we have on as the pull increases proportionately to the number of fish on. So I think Shanook and Skip are spot on with their comments

[skip]

On the same rod Robby!! happened to SimonG and took him over an hour to bring them up on a shitty rod/reel we were using.