Main • Why not jig?

[Tom84]

There's been one thing that I always think of with kayak fishing why does no one seem to use jigs or at least not say they do? Would it be a problem if the fish took being straight down?

[Barrabundy]

You'd probably find many of us jig in one way or another. I jig with soft plastics where there are deep holes. Sometimes I get a hit straight away and other times I'm disappointed.

I think some of the snapper fisherman jig also.

When does jigging become a slow troll or drift fishing? I often drop a soft plastic down and just jig it up and down while the current moves me along. I do this both in freshwater and in the salt.

[Couta101]

I think the biggest issue with jigging is the fact the the waters we fish off shore are not really deep enough to effectively work the jig. We usually only end up fishing 15-20 m 25m if we are lucky. You probably could do it at that depth but you would need to find a bommie or pinnicale and use a fairly small jig 60-80 g. Any bigger and I think you would be waiting your time.

I wish there was deeper water closer in, I would be jigging my heart out....the takes are awesome!

[Artie]

80gram jig, cant see a problem myself....

[MrX]

Plenty of success on the big jigs up here off Sydney in 10m to 20m targeting kings. SBD, Avayak etc have had plenty of success in the summer.

Here's one:
https://www.akff.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=34591&p=363050&hilit=jig#p363050

[bunsen]

Yeah, you just can't fish your drag settings on sunset like you do in a boat. Unless you like doing Eskimo rolls that is.

[bunsen]

Hi tom, just noticed you have almost exactly twice as many posts as me!

[Couta101]

Seems you lot down south have a better response to shallow water jigging which is great very jealous

For all the jigging I've done between gold coast and noosa it's been nada for me....... Either I'm doing it wrong or the fish up here don't like to play with others

[keza]

I would say jigs account for more of our kings than anything else.
I use from 90 to 250g jigs. The kings do go hard on jigs.
I don't think I've caught anything else on them except samson.

[bunsen]

The old sergeant baker doesn't mind a jig either unfortunately.

[kayakone]

I would say jigs account for more of our kings than anything else.
I use from 90 to 250g jigs. The kings do go hard on jigs.
I don't think I've caught anything else on them except samson.

Kerry
How does the jigging compare to the downrigging of live or dead baits?

I am assuming you are using octa jigs, not stick jigs??


trev

[keza]

Leaf or spike jigs Trev, not octa jigs.
Jigs work great in conjunction with a sounder. If you think it's a school of kings underneath you, you'll find out pretty quickly with a jig.
Bonito also hit a jig but kings go pretty hard when you jam a hook into the roof of their mouth at speed.
Downrigging I feel is a bit more for prospecting.
The days when we have hook 30 to 50 kings in a session are on jigs, it's fast and efficient but like all things, they wont always hit them, I think they need to be in feeding mode, where as they would probably take a live squid hungry or not.

[kayakone]

Leaf or spike jigs Trev, not octa jigs.
Jigs work great in conjunction with a sounder. If you think it's a school of kings underneath you, you'll find out pretty quickly with a jig.
Bonito also hit a jig but kings go pretty hard when you jam a hook into the roof of their mouth at speed.
Downrigging I feel is a bit more for prospecting.
The days when we have hook 30 to 50 kings in a session are on jigs, it's fast and efficient but like all things, they wont always hit them, I think they need to be in feeding mode, where as they would probably take a live squid hungry or not.

Ah, I see now Kerry. Spike jigs (Bought some a while ago off Craig450 (cause they were cheap - I had no idea what they were good for). I guess you need deep water, a sounder, and a stiff rod??)...

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/River2sea-12 ... 53ed6e87de

So this is the style...? Maybe something a bit smaller though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=en ... kNrP4&NR=1



Not going to be any good for Scarby at 6 metres max. Have to get onto the AI and head for deep water methinks.



trev

[Artie]

That looks like such hard work...Ill stick to the flattys and Snap....

[kpac]

Artie - how nice is that snapper!!! sweet fish.