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Graham Scott:
Warwick,
I drop jigs into the fern OK without snagging provided you get them up before dragging along. I presume you have found the spanos at flat or perforated or Manifold. Try the bommie off the se corner of flat or the western tip of Perforated out th the bommie about 1.5km to the NW. Once you know how deep it is stop your jig just short of the bottom if you like. I have lost very few jigs to bottom hookups, provided the water is deeper than say 25m.

I know its totally taboo but NYLON actually works better than braid on spano jigging, as the early close quarters head shaking often rips the jigs out their mouths on braid...Spanos are a top water fish and often hit right under the boat...I know.. I'm an old fart!! Maybe chuck a topshot of 15kg nylon over the superduper PE plus and wind it onto the stella magnifico, back the drag off to a sensible 3kg and hang on... they won't brick you and your better off letting them have a looong run and then just wind em in. Don't know what the fuss is all about.

Caught a cobia about 25kg on a pet rock up at Manifold last trip....now that was a pain in the butt and needed my braid for that bugger.

Travis Heaps:
thanks for the great tips Graham - we've found a healthy spano population at one of the many spots you suggested, seems as though we've got plenty of searching around to do yet.

Also - what are these Taipans you've mentioned a couple of times?  Googled but didn't come up with a lot?

Thats a very nice cobes on a pet rock - were you using one of those big suckers (I saw some 300gm monsters the other day!)?  We've only tried the smaller models for no success.

Warwick Joyce:
Cool thanks for that Graham. I am using a fairly light outfit for jigging a saltiga z4500 with 30lb braid on a T curve deep jig 200. I have been running with about 2m of 80lb gallis leader which is nice and soft and like you said light drag as once they are hooked they wont brick you. I think the wire will do good just for the assist tho.
If only the weather will come good one day this year :D
I must join one of your trips one day as well.... Time, money, weather its all against me ::)

Travis i think the taipans are just like big chrome slugs, there is a bunch at barra jacks ;)

Graham Scott:
Warwick,
Sounds spot on to me.
I was involved in the original jigging craze in the mid 70's (seascapes and jigsticks)and Taipans have made it all the way from 70's to today...so they do work. Use the heaviest ones, chuck em maybe 30m, no more, let them sink to the bottom. You need a nice angle with the bottom, horizontal retrieve doesn't work often vertical is OK and  half way in between is perfect.
The retrieve is basically wind like crazy with no rod work and allow 2 or 3 pauses in between flat out bursts. The idea we reckon on the pause is that mackerel follow the jigs VERY closely literally a couple of cms behind the lure. When you pause they basically run into the lure. "Oh well may as well eat it now I'm here". It makes a difference.
If you found the mackerel where I think, don't be surprised that big queenies prefer the taipans to poppers

Best of luck!

Mark Harris:
Reviving an excellent old thread.

I am trying to figure out what these Taipans are. Has anyone got a picture? I am more than intrigued.  Are they like the chrome bullets on certain Inchikus?

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