What kind of jigs do you like for bottom fishing, say 75’ to ledge? What weight? Where do you tie?
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There is alot to actually jigging correctly as well. Canot go out with any jig on any setup and catch fish but for under 150ft jigging is not extremely effective unless use slow pitch method. If want some in depth information throw me a pm. I pretty much fish artificial only and have caught grouper to wahoo jigging here in SC waters. Quite few users here big into as well, especially Courtland when he isn’t off fishing exotic areas of the world lol
Listen to fishing duo on jiging. First hand experience has proven him very capable.
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If you want to pull on Amber Jack use the same technique used on the west coast for Yellow Tail. High speed Yo-Yo jigging. A Salas 6x ro 6x Jr. ( or similar heavy bar jig) blue and white or scrambled egg. Drop straight to the bottom, yo-yo a couple of times and then windd as fast as you can with a high speed reel to about 29ft from the surface. Drop and repeat (if necessary). This is effective for many species including tuna. and others
Thanks for good comments, duly noted. What is best for grouper? Triggers?
while I’ll agree with fishingduo on deeper water for knife jigs I have to disagree on artificials not being very effective in shallower water (60-120ft). 2oz blue water candy roscoe jigs will catch just about anything that swims and many a time will pull up nicer fish while others in the boat are fishing squid/cutbait. less messy and time spent not baiting hooks is more time with a jig on the bottom. we also catch a lot of fish on bigger diamond jigs, shimano lucanus jigs, and the old classic of a 2oz bucktail with 4" gulp shrimp can be an absolute grouper killer (though the gulp gets expensive with triggers around)
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