I would love to see some rigging and tackle (rods and reels). Is there a good combo that one could put together for around 250-300 that would double as a good all around bottom/jigging?
Thanks and great looking product.
I’ve gone a bit beyond sanity in my jigging stuff. My typical setup is as much as a 50W spooled on a custom rod.
For the money you reely can’t beat a Shimano Trevala and a Torium. There are quite a few good manufacturers of less expensive brands. Hopper, Penn, OTI and a few others. The reels are another story. Saragosa or Saltist would get the nod on a spinner. Torium or Saltiga on a conventional.
I personally like rods under 6’ and most of mine are under 5’.
My Jigging Master 300G rod and Accurate 600N spooled with Jerry Brown 80# braid would run about $1000 right now. I can jig it, troll it or bait fish with it. So in the long run it may actually be more cost effective than you think.
The best way that I have found to shrink the skins is boiling water from a tea pot. All twelve jigs came out perfectly. Took about 20 minutes to do all twelve jigs. From a cost stand point I have right around $55 invested for all twelve jigs. That includes the lead and the jigskinz. Hard to beat that compared to $15-$20 for one butterfly jig.
Being an inshore guy, I don’t really have the opportunity to use your product but man, that is really clever. I hope you do well with it (I expect you will).
Fat Cat just use a pot of boiling water. Use a spaghetti spoon drop them in and pick them up. No need to pour. Where did you get the lead mold? Looks COOL!!
Set the trap boys, we going to pass through them again!!
Cool video, I’m pretty sure I know that kid fishing with you, he works on a head boat I think?, I had to pass him the rod when a tarpon we were fighting swam under their boat, then drive around to the other side for the hand off. If that’s him, Good good dude, I owe him a cold one, when he’s old enough.
