I fish from a kayak and started jigging a bit more seriously this winter.
I'm really starting to like it so thought I might get myself a nice dedicated jigging set up.

There are, as you can imagine, a couple of limitations jigging from a yak, the biggest one being that the max line weight for me is about 30lb, any more can become a bit hard if you snag up! Plus the extra drag pressure to bother using 80lb stuff is a little hard to stay up right!

I saw a shimano jigwrex pe3 rod with a torium 16 down at my local, does anyone have any thoughts on this set up?

It does say on the rod that max jig weight is only 100gm, how strictly should one stick to that?

Either way, I've been fishing 80-200gm jigs on my 6,8 & 10kg SP and straylining set ups and they're not really doing it for me.

Any thoughts from a jigger would be much better than mine on such limited experience.

Cheers,
Useless

chopsticks wrote: Obviously you will be targeting snapper and similar sized fish and not�large�Kingfish on such a set-up - unless you want to be towed around in your kayak for an hour or so.

Yea sorry should have mentioned that snapper will be the main target, unless of course I've eaten my weetbix and stuble across another 30kg+ kingi.
I'd at least like to think my gear could go the distance even if I can't

Last time took close on THREE hours and wasn't really as fun as I would have thought, Cool to look back on but if it happens again I don't know if I'll go the distance

Is the braid a MUST for the shallower water jigging or could you get away with mono? Or is that just stupid?

Yeah good advice Chopsticks.  I would add the JM Terminator TC200 rod as well as it handles PE1.5 - 4.  The TC200 is a parabolic rod so becomes "short" when under load. The short rod reduces the leverage against you when in a Yak and they are very strong as well.  You should PM Kojak for his opinions about the JM vs Jigrex comparison.