Man, I read through all those posts on vertical jigging. and it gave me a headache. If you see a grundle of fish on the screen in ,,,, lets say 100 feet of water. you can flip the switch on your reel and back reel to them. Hold your rod and back reel one turn. Measure how far your lure dropped in one turn. You can then do a quick figure in your head and know how many back reels it takes to reach 100 feet. Works great, and sometimes you will get bit before you reach the large school.Then mark your line with a magic marker and you can return quickly to the exact spot again. Everything doesn't have to be so technical.
I keep a few magic markers on the dash of my boat anyway, they come in handy for lure modification and for precise lure placement when you need to run a lure an exact depth off a side planer. You let out line until you tick bottom, then mark your line and set the planer board on the mark. Keeps your lure at the exact depth you want.
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I use slip bobber knots, harder to move but not as many marker marks to keep track of. It also allows me to set up a jig under a slip bobber that when cast out will simply go to the preset depth while I fiddle with my 2nd rod.
Blows people away to see me bobber fishing in 100' of water, and catching.
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i like the slip bobber knots as well. they work realy well for live bait fishing![angelic] i dont think i have ever fished them in 100' of water tho.. i like them better for 10 to 40 feet jigging. anything over that i just jig strate down under the boat. if you got some good waves rolling around even better..the waves will jig for ya.. and you can adjust it to what ever deepth you like..
but i have never had a problem seeing my jig even a small jig on my lowrance X135 so all i have to do to find out how deep i am is look at the finder..[sly]
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I also can see my jig on the finder.
Have you guys noticed though the sonar doesn't pick it up tell about 20' or so?
If I put it under my transducer and let it down it's always right around that depth that it starts to pick it up.I'm sure it has something to do with the strength of the signal that bounces back?
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Sometimes you can see a jig with the fish finder.
Ever try vertical jigging 75 feet down, ten feet out from Moki wall at Lake Powell?
Or below the hiway at Deer Creek, where the depth is twenty five feet, ten feet from shore.
If your transducer signal hits the drop off before it hits the jig, you won't see your jig, or the fish for that matter.
I'm just letting folks know there is a way less technical and very dependable way to jig deep suspended fish without a bunch of fancy electronics.
And I don't really like using bobber stops for depth markers. They move too easily when fighting a big fish. Magic marker will stay on your line most of the day and never move.
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Sure there is a simple way, who said we wanted to do it the simple way?
I like my electronics, I like seeing the cast-master flutter down a bright yellow along the
red, green and blue of the rocky steep bottom.
The way the depth numeral flutters back and forth between 25' and 55' as the "You have exceded the maximum depth " message flashes on the screen, makes my heart patter.
First few times it was frustrating, now it tells me than in my 4-8 foot cone the depth canges from 25" to 55' minus the 3' chop up against Moki wall as my boat is battered by the waves of every homicidal houseboat operator, kamakazie wake boarder and undersized brained - over sized boat - wannabe captians.
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