Jigging Tip - Finding Right Jigs

When I go fishing, I usually bring around 2 dozen different jigs and for every 3-4 casts, try different jigs until I find good one. After then I keep use it until no bite is happening. A lot of customers and friends ask me that which one is good jig? Well, I don't really have good answer. When we are out fishing, condition of fishing is all different every time. I have to find what they like at the moment, and when I find a good jig, then every casts going to hook fish. It is really a lot of fun.

Usually, people trust too much of their experience and their equipment, but while you have 100 years of experience and million dollar equipments, you can't find what fish like then you can't catch any fish.

Gray Tile Fish Fishing Report - Feb 23rd, 2011

The sea condition was unusually strong current that made the trip wasn't easy. Another problem was we were getting so many jumbo sea bass hits on the baits, so catching tile fish was easy.

Anyhow, we had nice tile fishes for each and everyone. There were some dog fish, but that didn't bother too much, rather too many sea bass.

We will be going out for sea bass trip sometime in the middle of March with special permit. If anyone is interested, then call Mike or email.

Cod Fishing Report - Jan 31st, 2011

I went Cod fishing with “Helen H” at Montauk. It was a little slow day, so I started to try almost all of my jigs. Finally, there was one good jig actually working. The jig is Sea Gator 6 3/4oz. It was hard to believe that it seemed no fish were down there and there were like none caught any on the boat. Using Sea Gator jig, every casts hooked the fish and they were all good keepers 23~25”.

For an hour, I caught a dozen of nice size fishes, and then my party was over… I tried few other jigs, and Hammered Diamond 4 oz hooked few more keepers.

I used only one jig at a time with no teaser. When fish is there but it’s not biting, one small jig works.

If you want to try Sea Gator jigs, then do Yo-Yo jigging. It’s not for squidding.

Cod Fishing Report - Jan 17th, 2011

Last Monday January 17^th, 2011, I went cod fishing with Francis Fleet at R.I. The day was freezing, but still many came about 50 people. Fishing was little slow that most of people kept 3-6 fishes. For me, I caught 19 keepers, but took only 2 which one of them was 15 LB pool fish. Gears that I used were small jigs around 4-7 oz. with Lucanus Skirts attached as in the picture. I casted and did slow squidding. Smaller jigs seemed working better that had more hits, and I had more and bigger sized fishes. If anyone wants to try the jigs, then ask me by email, or by phone. We don’t have those set made for set but I can help if someone needs. These Lucanus skirts is very good for cod squidding, since it is made for slow squidding.

Cod Fishing Report - Jan 6th, 2011

Last Thursday, January 6th, 2011, I went Cod fishing with Francis Fleet in Point Judith, R.I. The weather was little chilly, but weather was nice. There were a lot of fish actions. Jigging worked better than the bait as 3 to 1. Smaller jigs of 5~8 oz. with pink or orange plastic octopus or grup was working well. For me I used only 1 jig with no teaser, and I did slow squiding technique which worked out pretty well.

Below jigs are for Tuna jigs but also works good with Cods.

Sea Bass Trip - December 31st, 2010

*Gary Schwartz from New Jersery, came for the first time sea bass jigging. He used Lucanus Jigs for about two hours and caught about a dozen of nice sea bass.

We went to Sea Bass Trip with Atlanic Star at Wild Wood, NJ. Weather condition was very unusual for the day. A lot of big sea bass was on rocky open bottom, but Lucanus jigs worked very well. Many people used Lucanus jigs for whole time, and limiting out wasn’t a problem and mostly fishes were big. We had 7~18 nice sea bass and few cods.

Sea Bass Trip - December 17th, 2010

We went to Sea Bass Trip with Atlanic Star at Wild Wood, NJ. The weather condition wasn’t great as expected, that we changed course to Sea Bass only trip instead combo trip with Tile fish. We left at 2 AM Friday; it was windy and seemed 4-6 feet sea all day.

We started about 200 feet rocky bottom. There were so many sea bass size over 5 lb. and many happy fishermen limited out for good sized fishes. The pool winner was 8.2 lb. Brad Warren from Philadelphia, PA., and the 2nd place was 7 2/1 lb. Dennis Muhlenforth from DE. The trip was great for jigging and overall the trip was very successful even though the weather was little rough.