Like to share a little, we often use 7-20gms jigs (sometimes maybe down to 5gms) in coastal waters of up to 60m in Singapore & Malaysia. And we did the same thing with success during our trips to New Zealand, Maldives and Sri Lanka too.

We use spinning reels like Shimano size 1000 with 3 to 5lbs of braided line. Japanese lines are also available in PE rating between PE0.3 to 0.6 (these are really thin). Most of the time, you should be able to get about a 150m of line spooled. Leaders used could range from 8-15lbs solely depending on your defined level of thrill.

For rods, you might find it strange in this part of the world, while some of us favour specific micro jigging rods, another school uses the fastest action BASS rods we could get our hands on. Rating of rods could be from 1-6lbs between 6' to 6'6". Reason being jigs with the slightest movement of our wrist to achieve a good rebound or dance of the jigs with the sensitive and ex fast action especially when we get to jigs weighing 5-7gms. With consideration of butt length not being too long to impede the flicking motion.

We would normally release the line and let it go out unimpeded till we see a pause in the release of the line from the spool (it was really hard for me to get that when I first started and whenever it gets a lil too windy. When we work the jigs here, we try to achieve more of a reaction bite than hoping for feeding take during the trying moments we have while fishing. Apart from the movement of the jig, I think what makes it tick more to the fish would be adding glitter feathers that we see in sabikis to attract more attention. Do anyone do a pause when the jig is at the bottom during a drift and do a sudden flick to get a reaction bite? 

And it's really true that it is magical fun when feeding time has stopped as I find micro jigging best at times when you get to see the sounder showing presence fish but they aren't on feeding mode. It works very well in fishing ponds and even freshwater too. 

Here are some microjigging photos to share and a link to a nice blog

http://tacklesource.blogspot.sg/

Go small to have max fun fishing!

HO

  

their JDM range was also very nice...