8-29 half day Va beach inshore & photos

[capt. jakeg]

Today I had Gary Quon from Tady lures aboard for a half day. Gary came all the way from southern California all by himself to do some east coast product testing on his lures. Our goal today was variety and given the conditions, I think we did O.K. The wind has been whipping out of the east pretty hard all week and made conditions somewhat unfavorable, but we would overcome. We started out at the Chesapeake light tower. It is getting to be the time of the year that Jack crevelle show up there and on our second cast we found out that they are here! The tady jig worked instantly and we were bowed up on a large jack on light tackle that took some serious cranking and boat handling to get in. After a prolonged fight because of the rather small spinning tackle, we released a beautiful 46'' Virginia Saltwater tournament citation sized jack crevelle that is the first of the hopefully long chesapeake light tower season for us. After several more casts, we landed a nice spanish on the jig, hooked some others, and had some jacks pull us off into the tower and break us off on the light tackle. All in all, it was great action at the tower, but Mr Quon wanted variety so we moved to another spot. Here we caught some sea bass on the jigs, but nothing to brag about, just small ones. We looked at some buoys, but no cobias seen today. Then we tried to troll some his jigs inshore and side by side, the Tady and Sumo jigs outproduced clark spoons on the troll 4 to 1 on the taylor bluefish. I had a great time fishing with Gary today and I was very impressed at the performance of the jigs.

[jazzrockskier]

Glad to hear those tadyjigs work so well around here i have a bunch in my tackle box from my days on the west coast and was wondering how they would do around the lower Chesapeake

[tunatamer4]

Glad to hear those tadyjigs work so well around here i have a bunch in my tackle box from my days on the west coast and was wondering how they would do around the lower Chesapeake

capt. jakeg- I'm not meaning to jack your thread, just want to make a point to some.

Jazz- Not to single you out so PLEASE don't take this personally. Why haven't you tried these jigs before? When I first moved to NC, I brought down a bag load of lures and jigsfrom the northeast. I started working charter boat with an "old salt" who had been in the charter/commercial industry for generations. When I first brought these things to the boat to ask his opinion, the response was,"That'll never work in Carolina waters, the fish here won't eat that."

Well, one day I set out to prove him wrong and slipped out a couple of my lures without him seeing them. Within minutes we were hooked up and a couple out produced the Carolina baits. Seems the Carolina fish were just FISH!

Sure not all the lures produced, but some did and I never would have known if they weren't used.

If there is something in your box/bag that produces somwhere else, try it where ever you fish, you never know. FISH ARE FISH.

[capt. jakeg]

tunatamer... id have to agree with you. I think that especially in carolina waters, where fish get accustomed to seeing the same thing every day, something new can never hurt.
I would tell you that with the jigs that we were fishing yesterday, they dont got the fancy holographic paint job that a $25 butterfly jig has, but they had an action to them that produced.... I trolled some of the smaller ones today and caught a limit of nice 3+ pound spanish.

[paul708]

nice fish on a JIG..way to go
are the jacks common?

[capt. jakeg]

This time of year, jacks are fairly common. Also, that tower normally holds HUGE 100# class AJ's this time of year. I have never gotten one of those in the boat though. Too much structure and too much fish.

[clt_capt]

Looks like a good day for your charter. They got some nice pull.

[Anngler]

You guys pretty much said it already but something new can never hurt. If one fish liked in one location, there's a good chance that another fish will like it in another location!

Anyway, nice work on the jigs!