How to catch Spanish Mackeral and Bluefish on artificials.

[Zachary]

I live in Miami and fish piers and bridges whenever I can.  I fish Jupiter and Ft. Lauderdale as well.

Anyhow, they say that fishing is all local, meaning that each region uses different techniques to catch different types of fish.

I was at the Jupiter (Juno Beach) pier the last couple of weekends and noticed that A LOT of people were catching Spanish mackerel and Bluefish on artificials.  They were tubular looking with red/orange fronts with the rest of the body white.  To make a long story short, they are called Gotcha and they were really well.  When I went to the pier tackle store, the guy told me that he sold over 100 the day before and thus ran out.  I went to Wal Mart later on and found out that they were sold out too.  Wow, that's a pretty popular lure.  I happened to be at Bass Pro Outdoors this past weekend during their Spring Fishing Classic and saw that they had a whole bunch of these lures - like 15 or so, so I bought about 10 and left the rest for some other people to buy so that they can catch some fish too. :grin:

So do any of you guys use this lure as well?  If not, then what do you use to catch mackerels and Bluefish?

Zachary

[williwm]

Usually catch Spanish trolling using a piece of a McDonalds drinking straw. cheep and effective. When we get into a school, we use spoons or Mirrolures. Fun to catch on light tackle!!! good fishing to you, mw

[motor]

I use the old reliable crocodile spoon..silver is my preference in color..but i have used the tube lure and it does work but won't last as long as the spoon..

[Zachary]

I've used those too and they do work great.  I just got back from a long business trip and I'm looking forward to fishin' for the macks while they are still here before they migrate back up north. :grin:

Zachary