I met Jessica at the Fred Hall Sportfishing show in Long Beach, CA. She showed me the Scentblazer product line and I was immediately interested in their teaser design. I'm a big fan of large teasers and I think they raise fish, period. I was also very interested because over the past eight or ten years I had built similar teasers out of PVC pipe, mylar tape, vinyl skirts. Basically, fancy chum tubes for trolling. The Scentblazer teaser for fit and finish made my teasers look crude in comparison. Their teaser is your classic bowling pin shape but with a two piece, polycarbonate body with a hollow bait chamber and large open grate at the back of the teaser.
I rigged two of them up with about four feet of 650lb. Momoi Xhard leader and loaded them up with bait. The bait chamber worked perfectly with our local bullet and frigate tuna. You simply unscrew the head of the teaser, load your chum into the body and screw the two pieces together. We would remove the head (behind the pectoral fins) and tail, gut the bait, cut crosshatch slices in the body of the bait on both sides and insert into the teaser. The one detail I really liked about this teaser, unlike others on the market, was the fact that I could control the action of the teaser by adding or removing chum from the chamber. Less chum equaled more action. The teaser would buck, skitter on the surface and dive with a really erratic action with less chum. If it was packed down with bait, it would push lots of water throwing a huge smoke trail, head shake and still dig in even when the wind would come up in the afternoon. We've raised a couple blues on them this Summer but I think we are definitely going to raise some more this Fall.
Check them out at www.scentblazer.com.
Buena pesca,
Mark
EastCapeGuides.com
