Those top ones if they have a flat reverse side and were fished up side down, oK. But yes those 'blueblue' style jigs are freakin' deadly. My uncle gave us some of the 20g orange and lumo zebra ones, and they are probably my favourite jig in the arsenal at the mo. I now know where he got them from. Kaveman is the man. He clearly knows what works in regard to shape and colour, and has seemingly always been at the coal face and on the cutting edge of Japanese innovations, technology and methods when it come to fishing in NZ.

 

Whilst I'm still just using a standard 7' soft bait rod, which works, it'd be nice to score an 8'+ rod to work these jigs properly. You'd get a larger draw back and thus longer hang time. Plus the more tip action would get these style jigs vibrating more on the draw back, which in my experience the fish love. You can get plagued by small kingies thou as they seem to get drawn to that vvrrrddddddhhh feeling when you rip them through the water. Still, fun thou.