New set up....
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Topic: New set up....
Posted By: Badfish
Subject: New set up....
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2007 at 3:54pm
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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 ------------- http://www.legasea.co.nz" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: chopsticks
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2007 at 4:24pm
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The little Jigrex, Torium sounds like a good set-up. You can spend a lot more for little extra gain. You should be able to use jigs up to about 150 gms without too much trouble. 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. ------------- CONFIDENCE: The feeling you have before fully understanding the situation. |
Posted By: Badfish
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2007 at 8:24pm
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? ------------- http://www.legasea.co.nz" rel="nofollow">
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chopsticks wrote:Posted By: chopsticks
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2007 at 9:09pm
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Braid is the only way to go. For snapper you would only need a top shot of say 125 m of braid and under that you could use mono. ------------- CONFIDENCE: The feeling you have before fully understanding the situation. |
Posted By: ChrisW
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2007 at 11:14pm
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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. ------------- give it death! |
Posted By: Badfish
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2007 at 9:13am
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awesome ChrisW thanks, I'll do that. ------------- http://www.legasea.co.nz" rel="nofollow">
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