Jigging out on the sand under gannets I use a speedy12 with 6kg mono on a 7' Daiwa IM6 rod with a 80-220gm jig normally pink or a pilly imitation.

Trinidad 12 ,jigwrex 100gm rod

Plow if your just fishing the inner gulf and using nylon a 7ft rod makes it easy...

you can shorten the rod length by about a foot if your into using braid...

the rod action for nylon needs to be firm due to the stretch otherwise the jig will hardly move and this will make it hard work.....

braid has very little stretch so you need something quite soft to add what i call a hesitation in the up stroke, this can also be done by adding 4-6mts of nylon as a trace of similar weight or slightly heaver to the braid your using....

reels can be as slow as 5-1 or as fast as you like, which ever you use light weight is best due to the amount of lifting your doing....
i know it never matters when you landing fish the pain is never felt till you go to bed that night.......

my rod is a one off built 11years ago by the Butterworth factory in Malaysia it is 7ft long..... but i like to use nylon of about 6kg.... even the reel is old as... haven't needed to buy another as i do look after them its a Ryobi free spool reel with a auto clutch.... but there are some excellent set-ups out there if you look around.......

Thanks Lethal.

Thing is, drift-fishing in relatively deep water/possibly deep foul with a strayline rig with minimum weight to get it down is, well, a type of straylining! What is it? I don't doubt you may have better success berleying and casting into rocks. I have been regularly catching 3~5kg snapper and occasionally up to 8kg. Well, "regularly" may mean different things to different people

hey sorry Phecda sort of got the wrong impression from your first post.....

its just people using the word strayling have got carried away and now it has been used for lots of different types of fishing and its sort of lost its true mean hence the reply....

your really doing what i like doing as well which is deep water drifting a light weighted bait.....

think about this, the reason a light weighted bait is used to imitate a dying bait or wounded fish is, as it drops to the sea floor it sends out vibrations that fish pick up and head towards it and it has smell that hopefully they like, so they eat it......

now if you were a wild animal, the one thing regardless of its size is anything acting wounded is a easy meal, so here is why they will hit a jig....  the slight difference is its moving a lot faster than your bait and it dosent smell, so the action is what makes the difference, just remember fish are killing machine its how they live and survive, so by acting on this instinct you start heading in the right direction.......
by keeping the jig moving you entice it to have a go, now and how you move the jig can make all the difference, slow fast or otherwise but it must be kept moving to make the fish think its going to lose the opportune to  eat.....

as you progress and have some success, slowly things will come together different condition on different days give varying results ..... by this i mean some days the wind is blowing with the tide and others against.....
this is what makes the 10% that catch most of the fish working out the conditions, knowing were to fish on different winds and which tide at a drop of a hat,  you know from experience which areas are out of the wind and you will be hanging with the tide or traveling with the wind whatever your looking for you will know where your likely to find it.....


 

hi LEVCAT.....

should work ok mate.....

if you rub the Blue fox lure hard enough with your thumb slowly adding more and more force to its side you can put a slight bend in it, do this on one side near the top and again on the other side near the bottom... and what you will have now is a slight  "S"  shape which will make it work even better..... its a very slight S shape your looking to produce dont over do it......

i would love to see you come done to 6kg as well mate, smaller diameter line means less weight to lift as it causes less drag in the water but still use the same outfit.......