Slow jigging Tarakihi?
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Topic: Slow jigging Tarakihi?
Posted By: OuttaHere
Subject: Slow jigging Tarakihi?
Date Posted: 19 Oct 2020 at 10:32am
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Anyone ever had any success with this? I'd love to find a way to catch Tarakihi that isn't just bashing them over with a heavy ledger rig. The trouble being we tend to fish for them in 60-120m and getting a small jig that they'll eat down that deep is going to be tricky. Thinking maybe something like a trout jigging setup, but at the end of the day that's essentially just a ledger rig as well? |
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Posted By: tedc
Date Posted: 19 Oct 2020 at 1:09pm
| I had a good sized tarakihi eat a 120g slider in 23m a couple of weeks ago. I was very and pleasantly surprised |
Posted By: MB
Date Posted: 19 Oct 2020 at 3:22pm
| I've literally caught two over hundreds of hours of jigging, but I don't target them, so maybe catch rates could be improved. I think a little bait on the jig hooks would make a world of difference, but probably not what you are trying to achieve. |
Posted By: smudge
Date Posted: 19 Oct 2020 at 3:36pm
Lumo flies trout jigging style would be my bet. I'm sure Uncle will know though. We fish 60gm quite easily in 60m on 10 lb braid so some really skinny stuff would get a 40g maybe even a 25g down there with a short 10lb leader I would think but nah I've never caught one on a jig  ------------- Best gurnard fisherman in my street |
Posted By: Uncle
Date Posted: 19 Oct 2020 at 3:53pm
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I put a bit off effort into trying with sliders & it was "slow", but did manage to land two. Reverted back to the ledger rigs & finished off by filling the bin, lol. That was a couple of weeks ago. If you want to make more of a sport of catching them Roz, maybe downsize your gear, say 4kg stuff?
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Posted By: viscount
Date Posted: 20 Oct 2020 at 5:17am
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Caught a few on small jigs, try find white with lumo stripes and tungsten but no bigger than 30g. ------------- Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job - Paul Schullery |