Sailfish respond well to a teaser and once they come up behind the boat you can pull the teaser up to bring the fish closer to feed them a small fish bait.  Live baits are ideal, however a bridle rigged garfish or pilchard is also extremely effective.  To bridle rig a deadbait we used a Black Magic 5/0 KS offset hook, rubber squid, rubber band and bait needle.  To rig the bait loop a rubber band around the curved shank of the hook.  Connect this to the ned of the bait needle and thread it through a rubber squid (head first).  Then place the needle through the eyes of the dead bait and pull right through, then back through the rubber squid (from the tail end).  Finish the bait by looping the rubber band back over the hook by wrapping plenty of times unitl the bait sits tightly on the back of the hook.