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Old 05-13-2008, 12:31 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Those FAD's can be awesome or horrible. Sometimes they hold a ton of fish, other times not. The commercial tuna guys in Hawaii put a round floating long line type float on them. They also put a becon on it so they can find it. It's like putting out your own personal crab traps. You just have to find your FAD in order to fish it.Problem is it's so deep they drift out of range and end up as far as the Texas beaches.

They hang old fishing nets off them because they attract and hold lots of bait. The nets also get hung up in tanker and cruise boat props when the FAD becomes a floating to no where destruction device. The one you are going to just might be anchored to the bottom.

Are you going to be on a private boat or party style boat?
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