Macks sling blade for halibut

I’d put a hook in it.

-Allen

I’m surprised more people dont do this. Works great for trolling for big lakers too.

Make sense. I've filmed my hoochie-dodger setup underwater, and have seem fish snap at the dodger and ignore the hoochie...

Let's say you're Mrs. Halibut laying there on the bottom.  And a skinny 4-5" fish (hoochie) is chasing a fat 6" fish (dodger).  Which do you eat?

-Allen

Ha ha! Excellent point.

Let's say you're Mrs. Halibut laying there on the bottom.  And a skinny 4-5" fish (hoochie) is chasing a fat 6" fish (dodger).  Which do you eat?

-Allen

I usually have a bead chain to connect the hoochie leader to the dodger.  Where would you put the hook to avoid tangle? Top of the bead chain? On a three way with a ring?  My mind is going nuts just thinking about all the tangles.

Cal from FHS had an episode I cannot seem to easily find where he added a small treble to his sling blade style dodger by adding an extra split ring between it and the clip for attaching the leader, seemed like it would work. 

Let's say you're Mrs. Halibut laying there on the bottom.  And a skinny 4-5" fish (hoochie) is chasing a fat 6" fish (dodger).  Which do you eat?

-Allen

I usually have a bead chain to connect the hoochie leader to the dodger.  Where would you put the hook to avoid tangle? Top of the bead chain? On a three way with a ring?  My mind is going nuts just thinking about all the tangles.

If you’re using a hoochie, which isn’t really spinning, why even have a bead chain?

The hook comment was half in jest.  Really just meant that at what point should you just be trolling a spoon?

-Allen

The hook comment was half in jest.  Really just meant that at what point should you just be trolling a spoon?

-Allen

A really big spoon.

Maybe shorten the hoochie leader to 0 so that it’s attached directly to the dodger. If nothing else, lingcod would probably go for that.

I am heading out for halibut tomorrow - prob ARW because it looks windy at Richmond.  I think I am going to attach a hook to ride along next to my dodger. 

I made an dodger a while ago out of a scrap piece of 1.25" aluminum angle - hammered it flat, painted it white with green glitter glue streaks, bent the ears out to give it a nice spiral motion, and attached snap swivels on either end.  I only fished a couple times with it, but I think it got more hits than the herring behind it, haha.  Definitely has some tooth scratches on the back half of it. 

I am thinking either run a short leader with 4 or 5 circle hook directly from the top snap swivel, or maybe drill another hole midway and run an even shorter leader. 

IDK, could be genius, could be dumb, haha. 

Edit, to answer original question - yes, I've used a silver/red dodger like that in I think 5" flavor.  I didn't get any hits on it, but I mostly tried it in March, before the summer surge. 

The hook comment was half in jest.  Really just meant that at what point should you just be trolling a spoon?

-Allen

A really big spoon.

Maybe shorten the hoochie leader to 0 so that it’s attached directly to the dodger. If nothing else, lingcod would probably go for that.

That’s not a large spoon.  I regularly run 10-12” jacksmelt for halibut.  They don’t seem to have an issue hitting that.  Now, giving them time to eat and actually get hooked, that’s a different matter.  Patience!

-Allen

Welp, here goes, haha. Maybe a tangle, maybe a fish?

Reviving an old thread:
Did anyone ever honestly fish with a hook on the dodger?
Results???

I have not tried it. I too would be interested to know if anybody has made this work...

Reminds me a lot of wobblers used in the Columbia river basin for salmon. Might just try a wobbler? can be deployed and trolled very slowly

I only tried once - that was already late last season.  Haven't tried this season.

Can say though, my home made dodger got hit a few times last season.

Reminds me a lot of wobblers used in the Columbia river basin for salmon. Might just try a wobbler? can be deployed and trolled very slowly

It does look similar, although even a small dodger would be a lot bigger:

https://www.columbian.com/news/2016/sep/15/wobblers-catch-columbia-river-chinook-trolling-too/

Reminds me a lot of wobblers used in the Columbia river basin for salmon. Might just try a wobbler? can be deployed and trolled very slowly

It does look similar, although even a small dodger would be a lot bigger:

https://www.columbian.com/news/2016/sep/15/wobblers-catch-columbia-river-chinook-trolling-too/

I’ve been using small and medium willow leaf style dodgers for kokaneee and trout lately, those styles look almost identical to the wobblers. If a salmon will hit a wobbler, I’m sure a halibut would too