Your Experiences with Jigging

[MartinB]

Was spinning from the shore with a metal spinner close to the bottom..so kind of spin-jigging i guess 
Was about the same size as the one i caught last year so around 9kg-ish...it SUCKS to lose it right at the last minute..but on the other hand it beats the hell out of no bite's at all!
I reckon i must have had a fray in my mono leader (main line is powerpro braid) as it cut just a bit below the uni to uni knot connecting to the braid.

[SPITEC]

Hard luck Martin but at least you got a good bite and passed some good time fighting a very nice sized fish and what a fish an Aj.Better luck next time mate.

[MartinB]

Thanks spitec..in hindsight i was a bit at fault,as i really should have checked my leader before i started fishing..definetly will do in the future though    !

[stevea]

today tried some jigging for about an hour or so near a fish farm at St.Paul's Bay. At one point, an acciola surfaced with the jig about 4 -5mtrs from the surface. Am sure was about 7 kilos plus but was only inquisitive and glided slowly back diagonally down. Being new to jigging I think I was not aggresive enough with the jig, or the fish was not in great appetite (being near a fish farm) or it was possibly too late (abt 7 pm) or maybe it was too shallow to jig (25 - 30 mtrs)...... any expert advise?...skip!

[skip]

Welcome to the at times frustrating world of jigging!!

If they're not in a biting mood it can be very frustrating......especially with acciola. I'm not sure if it's the time, current, wind etc or that there's lots of food around but they just don't bite. I also wonder whether if you can see them, they won't bite either!

Changing your jigging motion or even jig might have helped to entice the bite but sometimes they just don't want to know.

I keep meaning to have some chum out with me to see whether that would entice them.

25-30m is fine in general, we've hooked up in 12m of water though its a pain in the ass to jig so shallow.

I haven't sorted out my reel after losing 170m of expensive depth finder braid due to rod tip failure....the top ceramic guide appears to have cracked on the down drop and then as soon as I started my first jig it cut the line. I was so shocked I just stood there trying to figure out what the hell had happened....had I been quicker I might have been in time to jump in and grab the line before it sank!

[stevea]

.... thanks for yout info... but actually even though I didn't get a strike or anything, I really enjoyed myself as it was hassle free, easy and the fact that you have a chance of a strike guess makes the whole thing a satsifying experience......at the end this is an integral part of fishing....i.e. waiting, fishing, fishing, waiting, anticipating - all with the chance of a strike / hook..

[shanook]

acciol.......eh what a clever fish that is. Its not the first time when fishing for vopi an acciola comes all the way up to the surface practically touching the vopa. We used to hook the live vopa on a bigger hook and throe it back in with other vopi that we had caught maybe having 6 in all. The acciola used to come up eat all the other 5 and stay looking at the one with the hook.........very intelligent more than kahli i suppose..........
i had a friend that somehow used to catch acciol but he never disclosed his secret ........
oh well as long as u enjoyed urself steve its ok.

[ciappinu]

Steve, 2 weeks ago I managed to hook 3 AJs on Jigging in the area you are mentioning. Unfortunately, I lost all 3 of them, but as Martin said, beats the hell out of no bites at all. The first one was small, around 2kgs, lost it as I did the mistake of putting a swivel between the leader and the braid. Had 5m of braid, so as soon as the swivel got stuck on the rod, she did some twist and got away. 5 minutes later I hooked a 4-5kgs AJ, had no idea what kind of fight an AJ of that size could do! My experience with 5kg fish (Such as Alongi) was tame next to that! Fought the fish for 2-3 minutes but did the mistake of trying to have it in the boat ASAP! When I got it close to the boat she was like a cat locked in a hot oven, needless to say I lost it. That day I drove back home with tears in my eyes, but happy with experience! A couple of days later I lost another, like Martin, I probably had scratch on the leader. Didn't manage to see one. My experience is that the jigging action needs to be very particular for the AJ. I think time will teach you!  However on certain days they want, on others they don't. The best times were early morning and late afternoon. On one occasion I had an AJ following up the jig , I could literally harpoon it from the boat If I could, that one was around 7kgs!

[TOFTOF]

Ciappinu, pity for the catch
But  try to keep a cop on the boat. I have a big triangular folding up cop.
It helps to bring in some nice AJ's

[stevea]

.... I had cop plus ganc kieku.......

[kris]

this week came back from a week stay at gozo. tried bottom fishing and trolling which proved to be quite poor.

one morning did a session of jigging and i managed to land a 12-15kg aj with the help of my brother and uncle. It gave a powerful fight always aiming towards the bottom taking at least 100m of braid with it.

well, after 15min it came to the surface completely exhausted and then it was up to my brother to gaff it and land it in the boat.

it gave us an amazing experience which we will remember until the next one arrives!!    

[Gazzetta]

Big well done mate !!!  Seems jigging is getting better hehe

Chris 

[shanook]

Well done Kris and the co-ordinates were??:)PPPPPPP

[bigboy]

prosit man

[Moonwalker]

Well done - thats my next dream