Thread: Slow Jigging with Inchiku and Kabura style jigs

I'm buggered from a day of slow jigging and filleting a metric ton of fish today, so yes it works! Slow jigging has been 90% of my fishing over the last 7 years, the remaining time mainly spent soft baiting. Aside from hapuka/bluenose fishing (yes, have caught hapuka on a slow jig!), haven't put bait on a hook for more than 8 years. It's bloody awesome. As far as snapper go, it makes fishing too easy sometimes. Today I caught snapper, golden snapper, blue mackerel (yum), kingfish, gurnard, trevally and barracouta (boo) on the same 60g unbranded jig from our friends in China. My main piece of advice is if you're going to do it, commit fully. It doesn't mean spending a lot of money, it means leaving stink bait at home and changing fishing style. No more anchoring and cracking open a beer waiting for the fish to bite. It means being constantly on the move, finding the fish and getting your jig down to them. It's more like hunting rather than trapping. You don't need a super flash fishfinder, but it should be good enough to show fish in up to 100 metres of water and learn how to use it to get the best pictures. Mark the spot on a chart plotter when you catch a decent fish and you'll soon build up a knowledge base of where the fish feed. Don't get obsessed with finding structure, most of the snapper I take are caught over sand. It's amazing how you can catch fish in the same spot trip after trip with no visible structure on the sounder. Lastly, we all know change of light is the best time to be fishing, more so for jigging in my experience.