Head Hunter sun-mon sept 21-22

[John D.]

Originally Posted by MrAC1980

nice work John! Sent you a PM.

Anthony, I will put the reply to your PM here so it can help others. I was using a fancy butterfly type jig but with a single hook on the split ring. It was metallic sardine and shaped like a butter knife. 10 oz. Most of my hits were when the jig drops the shape causes it to flutter irregularly through the water column--like a wounded fish or darting squid. On one drop, I noticed the line wasn't coming off the spool with bail open---time to reel very fast when it came tight, as the fish was swimming towards the boat, I only had 40 ft of line out and bye bye favorite jig

Bill was just using the bread and butter hammered diamond jigs at 10oz. But all his hits were during a fast crank up from the depths--you don't usually get hit on the drop down with those jigs IMO.

Both types of jigs work well--you just have to fish each style a little differently. The most important thing is to also have someone jigging even when you don't see fish on the screen or being caught. Perseverance is key. The combo of chunking and jigging increases the catch dramatically and the jigging turns the fish onto the feed.

Good luck.

John