Oregon Inlet Bluefin jigging 4/5

[marlinmatt]

purely awesome!!! what size and kind of jig is that?

[cbaker77]

Good on ya boys. Every time I looked over someone was on a fresh one. By the end the trollers were tightening the pattern around that one little place on the temp break. I recall one asking "can you use them jigs on mono?" lol

Haha. It was definitely a trip for the record books for us. The guys who asked me if they could jig with mono came over and got a few jigs from me. He put it on an 80w with braid and hooked up in about 5 minutes and landed the fish. he hadnt had a bite all day. You gotta love the effectiveness of the jig!!!

[cbaker77]

purely awesome!!! what size and kind of jig is that?

280g hots drift tune. It is an awesome jig!

[cbaker77]

Congratulations Chip and crew! Many folks thought about doing what you did. Few tried and fewer yet succeeded. Way to put it to them and hard to believe what that small (only in looks) tackle can do.

What's next? A giant perhaps?

SeaBiscuit

We feel very fortunate to do what we did Nick. Id love to try my hand at a giant. In my opinion there would be a much better outcome than people might think with the tackle being so light. There is only one way to find out though!

[gman]

still dislike you .........

[Stormtrooper]

I have to give it to Chip,he tells me a week or two ago that these fish are there and is confident we can put the crew on them and all be damned if he didn't deliver.Oh and catching a fish that weighs as much as you do on a jig and a 5'2 jigging rod in under 20 minutes thats pretty bad ass.

[gman]

I have to give it to Chip,he tells me a week or two ago that these fish are there and is confident we can put the crew on them and all be damned if he didn't deliver.Oh and catching a fish that weighs as much as you do on a jig and a 5'2 jigging rod in under 20 minutes thats pretty bad ass.

Whats up bro? Im hoping you can meet us for a drink or two or three when we get there in two weeks. Im pretty upset at myself for missing that trip, would have been nice to get bloody

G

[jig42na]

Good on ya boys. Every time I looked over someone was on a fresh one. By the end the trollers were tightening the pattern around that one little place on the temp break. I recall one asking "can you use them jigs on mono?" lol

Its been that way here in NJ for the last 3-4 years. We had days where we were the only boat drifting on a lump and had 10+ trollers around us not catching a thing, and there already be 1 bft in the box and how many released. One day we were called "a bunch of kids yanking our rods really fast in a dingy" on the radio. Now last year that all changed and you see a bunch of guys up and downing a jig off the bow while the rest chunked.

[Anders]

What an amazing post, amazing pics, and amazing time yall must have had. Congrats to you and thanks so much for sharing. My day in the office is now complete

[mythosbeer]

It looks like you guys had a blast fishing and just had a blast in general. Some of your pics are cracking me up...thanks!

Mitch