Hatteras jigging

[bestonearth]

Went out of Teach's sunday to do a little tuna jiggin for the first time. We left the inlet around 6:30 and headed out to the rockpiles where trolled around some planers for a few minutes upon arrival and began picking up false albies and marked tons of fish on the sounder. After a few minutes of this we pulled the planers and dropped the jigs. I got a handful of OTI jigs from Paul on here as well as some Williamson jigs and they all seemed to both work well. As soon as we started jigging we began catching and getting cut off by sharks. I pulled up a shark on a jig around 7ft. long on my new JM 450 and 18000 saragosa combo (this thing is a beast!). We began catching lots of albies, a few jacks, and huge sharks but no tuna. After about an hour we moved to the southern end of the rocks and began catching some nice blackfins and again lots of albies. We ended the day with 9 Blackfins and prolly 30-40 false albecore, some jacks, and two big sharks released at boatside. This was our first attempt at jigging besides catching amberjacks at the tower out of oregon inlet. Back at the dock by 3:30 and weighed in 2 blackfin citations at 23 and 24lbs. Can't wait to do it again.

[Sea Draggin]

Great job. Hatteras is always a lot fun.

Congrats on the citations.

Jim

[WhiteLakeBuc]

Sweet! Nice catches!

[paul708]

nice report.
glad everything worked for you
any pics?

[cravertosu]

Great report!! I was wondering what sort of areas the blackfins hang out at! Paul's right though, where are the pics?!

[bestonearth]

didn't have a camera on the boat but my buddy took some pics back at the house. I'll try and put them up tomorrow.

[MissSara]

Was out there myself Sunday for the first time jigging blackfins and had a blast. Will need more jigs next time as the sharks were hard on equipment as you said. Since I am new at this game, any reason why you couldn't rig your hooks on the jigs with a lighter breaking strength to try an save the jigs? I am guessing you will still lose quite a few to the sharks but just a thought. I think I will do a little testing before next trip. Any thoughts? Thanks Sea Draggin for the info on rigging up. I will be in touch for jigs.

[Sea Draggin]

You are very welcome. Hopefully you took some pics to share with those of us that are going to be landlocked this month.

[bestonearth]

here are some pics

[Sea Draggin]

Awesome. Looks like some good eats.