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Samuel Chieng:
Hey guys,

Need plenty of expert opinions for a jigging rod, to fish close structure. And when I say close, I mean CLOSE. Scenarios is like this...gonna be fishing near oil drilling platforms (like 10m away), where HUGE GTs are ever present. This of course means a lock down, head wrenching, stop-in-its-track fishing where lots of grunt will have to be borne by the rod and reel and of course angler, before it breaks you off at the pylons.

At the moment, I have a 5'4" JM Terminator 400gm, but am looking for something a lil' lighter in rod weight, as it should pull double duty as a deep jigging tool for monster doggies. (We all do wish for it don we?)

i've narrowed it down to a few within the same budget range.

Smith AMJ S52EX...OR Simth WRC55 Nirai. Which would be more suitable for my type of fishing?

The Carpenter OH56MH-S. There's a guy selling it off cheap, but then again is it suitable for this type of fishing, cos there are ppl who claims that it's a lil' too soft for this type of style, and recommend the OH55XH-S instead. If it's not then it might not be worth buying it.....yet.  :P

Then there's the JM Powerspell 500gms, but I am more partial to the Japanese stuff compared to the Taiwanese's. Plus I do own one JM400 already...

Of course there are others outside of my price range such as the RippleFisher 5220 and the Fisherman Spinoza Short 5122, but that will be for another time.

Am fishing a Stella SW20kPG, with PE8-10 lines, drag sets at 15kg or more (depending whether my back snaps or not!)

And just for a taste of how it's like, below is a pretty nice specimen being skull dragged up.


A mother of a GT at 57kg!!

Jay Burgess:
I'm pretty sure both of those Smiths will be too soft for the style if fishing you'll be doing. As for the Carpenter, I'm not familiar enough with their rods to comment. Another rod you could consider is the Valley Hill Mogi Special.

Hon-Su Chin:
well....you can forget both the Smiths.....way too soft for deep jigging with anything over 400gm. JM powerspell 500 is a better option but brutal and yeh not lightweight like all the other JM rods. Valleyhill Mogi Special.....now thats an awesome rod. Used one with 400gm in 100m of water on sambos. No problem skull dragging them up. PE 6-10 but 700gm weight is about max for it.

The Carpenter OH55XHS is not bad, very light and powerful rod but abit stiffer in the tip than the Valleyhill. Its also fair bitmore parabolic than the Valleyhill.

Brandon Khoo:
Do you guys practice catch and release? That GT does not look well

Samuel Chieng:
Thanx for the suggestion guys. Will look into the Mogi Special. Although I need to ask, are the Smiths really that soft till it renders them incapable of fishing deep waters? We're talking 100m-180m of deep water jigging. I've seen the bend of the Smiths in some pictures and compared to the Wei World, the Smith seem to be able to take more vigorous works.

Brandon, we do practice C&R here although that one was obviously not.  :-[

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