Heard about this crazy new jigging fad thing and decided its time to give it a go - so booked myself onto Damo's trip in March.

 

Damo kindly suggested I could hire some of his gear, but I'm really keen to use something I have.

 

Have a 10-15kg jellytip jig-spin, but alas no reel to match.

Just bought a Kilwell Live Fibre 10-15kg overhead (mainly to go with my TLD for a bit of livebaiting). The million dollar question - can I use my Penn Senator 9/0 filled with 80lb braid? I'm guessing the retrieve rate should be ok due to the spool size. Its me old kitefishing reel. Probably quite tiring but I used to haul in 2 kites being pulled in a 20kt wind with perhaps a 4ft shark and 4-5 snaps attached for 40mins - giving the old guns a good workout.

 

Only other thing I have suitable is a TLD15 - could spool with either some 50lb I have lying around or take off some 80lb from the penn.

 

Or am I just wasting me time?

 

Cheers,

Garrick

 

I guess you can jig with whatever you have available to use, hopefully on the trip Damo is running there will be guys on there with some purpose built gear. If you get the chance use it and the difference is huge. There are guys on here much more able to advise about the gear than I, but from the trip we were on I fished with a Stella 20000 and T Curve which is a great reel but the rod just makes it harder work than the shorter jigging rods.

 

Go hard with whatever you have or can hire, but keep your eyes open and start saving for your new jigging set up

 

Murf

I'd use the TLD15 with 50lb braid over the Senator. use thumbs (gloved) for extra drag

 

good excuse for a TAS session, jigging is hell fun

yeah start spending lots and lots of money like me. Dont hesitate.. just do it. That way if you regret it later, its too late, you've already bought it......... so its algud.

 

Good to see you spending the money to help keep the industry ticking over. May I be so impertinent as to ask why you bought a high speed Shimano reel?

(thxs to chris w) nice little reals,  wanted a torsa but not aloud to spend that much

 

 

too make my jig move faster

 

Okay.   The reason I asked is the long jigs work best when you jerk them rather than just winding them in fast; in fact they have very little action if you do that. Speed helps combined with jerks, especially on the rocket jigs, but I've seen many good Kingies hooked on very slow retrieves with stops, starts etc. In NZ the myth persists that you have to wind in a jig flat-out to catch Kingies; it's a hang-over from the 70's and just tends to shag you really fast and is totally unecessary. Higher speed reels tend to make it harder to land fish and can be harder to jig with when using heavier jigs. That's why the worlds best and many of the hard-core jiggers on this site use lower speed reels, both overheads and spinners, with around a 4:1 to 4.9:1 retrieve .

 

Good luck with your Torium; they're nice reels and have accounted for a lot of Kingfish and other species in this country.

 

 

i see your point i got a few lower speed reels that i use for kings, got a 30w international that i use off the rocks and a couple tld's so guess i really only got the torium to extend the collection and it is alot lighter that the others aswell,

 

so torsa u prefer the 16 to the 20??