09-07-2003, 05:40 AM
Hit the water early today. Here is how it went:
Saturday,09/06- Took to the water with my friend's son, Kyle (11 yrs. old). Kyle has yet to master casting so I decided to spend the morning jigging. I've always ignored this method of fishing, prefering to hunt down boils instead. If there are no boils I usually keep looking or head home. Using capnJ"s advice from his post on 09/01, I rigged up the line counter reels with 15 lb test and headed out to the mid-channel bouy outside of Government Wash. We fished at depths between 40-70'. We caught 8 stripers, most of them in the three pound range. Young Kyle was all
s when he was pulling in a three pounder. We caught all of the fish on "spinnow" 2.5oz lures. It seemed that most of the fish I caught hit the hardware while sinking. Jig up, line would go slack instead of sinking right away, and WHAM! a nice striper! Kyle would just yell "I think I have a fish!" and reel it in, not really knowing how he hooked it. I'm hooked on jigging now. WE caught nice fish and compared to chasing boils, did'nt burn hardly any fuel. Any more advice on jigging techniques would be very welcome. BaySport
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Saturday,09/06- Took to the water with my friend's son, Kyle (11 yrs. old). Kyle has yet to master casting so I decided to spend the morning jigging. I've always ignored this method of fishing, prefering to hunt down boils instead. If there are no boils I usually keep looking or head home. Using capnJ"s advice from his post on 09/01, I rigged up the line counter reels with 15 lb test and headed out to the mid-channel bouy outside of Government Wash. We fished at depths between 40-70'. We caught 8 stripers, most of them in the three pound range. Young Kyle was all
s when he was pulling in a three pounder. We caught all of the fish on "spinnow" 2.5oz lures. It seemed that most of the fish I caught hit the hardware while sinking. Jig up, line would go slack instead of sinking right away, and WHAM! a nice striper! Kyle would just yell "I think I have a fish!" and reel it in, not really knowing how he hooked it. I'm hooked on jigging now. WE caught nice fish and compared to chasing boils, did'nt burn hardly any fuel. Any more advice on jigging techniques would be very welcome. BaySport[signature]