Newbie Full of Questions

[Custom Canvas]

Japasese style jigging is designed to crank fast, fast.
They are not designed for bottom fishing though you can catch them with Japanese styel short rods and japanese style jigging.


If you like to jig for bottom fish on crowded party boats, you should adopt how cod fishermen jig on crowded party boats.

This is a very good point!
bottom fishing and vertical jigging are two very different things... however....if done in the proper style a verticla jig is deadly on bottom fish. Picture a YO-YO and once you find the bottom and make sure you have the bottom then you jig

high lift no crank and back down if you dont feel bottom let out more line!


a good way to know when your on the bottom is that your line will rest on the surface.. also pay close attention to your current if you have a lot of it it becomes VERY difficult to jig

hope this helps
CC out

[Tym_Green]

Tym,

First welcome to SFC. You might want to pm Ace1 since he lives in the MB area. We also have another member on here who mates on a boat out of Little River I think he goes by Calabash something????

Thanks Robja,

I'll reach out to them

[Tym_Green]

what are you jigging for? how deep? what is everyone else pulling up? Answers to these questions will help us to determine you are using the right bait.

I really want to catch some Grouper & sea bass, maybe play around with a Jack or 2. Everyone else was pulling up snapper. I do realize that it's all about the location...
How far you do most of you guys go out anyway? We normally go out to the Gulfstream about 50 miles out.