Crazy Question

[fman]

Obviously most of everyone on here goes jigging off of a boat. But here is my question: Has anyone jokingly or seriously tried a vertical jig to catch a fish off of a pier? The reason I ask is because I have been to some places that you can see Kingfish, Bonita, Cobia, Sharks and other fish crusing underneath and wondered if you could attract them.

[markc]

i have caught plenty of bluefish and spanish makerel off the pier here in wrightsville beach jigging, just kinda cast it out a little to cover more water.

[HatterasBound]

Mark are u talkin about catchin the blue devils and spanish on got-cha plugs? i the he is talkin about try to fish w butterflys jigs off piers! is that right? well anyway here is my 2 cents i think is a cobe is swimming down the side of a pier and he is hungry and u put that jig in front of his face he is gonna kill it just like they do w bucktails and stuff like that!! that is something to try this summer and i think a big king would hit a jig also iv seen people get spooled by kings throwing got-cha plugs so why wouldnt they hit a butterfly jig!!

[paul708]

sure.
from pier, bridges, even beaches.

using jigs. there is alot of great fishing to be done with jigs.

[fman]

Mark are u talkin about catchin the blue devils and spanish on got-cha plugs? i the he is talkin about try to fish w butterflys jigs off piers! is that right? well anyway here is my 2 cents i think is a cobe is swimming down the side of a pier and he is hungry and u put that jig in front of his face he is gonna kill it just like they do w bucktails and stuff like that!! that is something to try this summer and i think a big king would hit a jig also iv seen people get spooled by kings throwing got-cha plugs so why wouldnt they hit a butterfly jig!!

That is right, the butterfly style jigs. I was curious because I have soaked live bait and seen those fish swim right past it an I was wondering if a vertical jig would be a way to get them interested. If a king gets it, watch out.....guess that would call for having plenty of line on the reel also!!

[markc]

yes butterlfly jigs, or stuff like them (i got tired of jerk jiggers and i wanted to see if verticle jigging would work). you better have one stout setup if you are gonna jig a cobe off the pylings

[Anders]

how effective are butterfly jigs when jigged horizontally? Most piers I go to are 10 to 15 ft deep. I have only jigged vertical offshore in 50+ ft deep water.

If you can cast out then it could work, just keep it under the water.

What jig has the most horizontal movement when jigged? Flat side?

[markc]

i used the small butterfly jigs and the gotcha jig fish jigs rigged regular and backwards so they were heavy end down. usually i would chuck it out pretty far, let it sink and work
(erratic speed jigging style) it until it hit surface and let it sink again.

[clamchunker]

fman fishing from a pier are you using live bait on a pin rig or are you using cut bait. also jigs will catch cobe and kings like the others say cast out and jig it back to the fish .

[fman]

fman fishing from a pier are you using live bait on a pin rig or are you using cut bait. also jigs will catch cobe and kings like the others say cast out and jig it back to the fish .

I am not too sure what species of minnows they were but you could see large schools just below and I would just send a sabaki rig down to get them. This was on a peir the Gulf on the Florida Panhandle. I would then rig the bait on a fish finder rig and let it soak.