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rigging for doggies

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Steve Carruthers:
Hello guys, I'm gearing up for a jigging and popping trip to Taveuni Fiji on the new moon in july and hope to tangle with a few doggies. What would be your ideal leader, assist and jig type be for the doggies?
I jig for kings around the home waters and have some nagamasas, R2Seas, sacrific sticks, zests etc and tie my own assists with 500lb kevlar. It seems most guys use the kevlar and hope that it lasts for one fish?????
 

Brandon Khoo:
Neil, if the doggies are on, they will eat anything but in my experience (please note I do not claim to be an expert on doggies) I have found that small fast jigs seem to turn them on and I have also seen big slow jigs (like big sliders) work well too. Seem almost counter intuitive but......  :D

If you are concerned about the doggies biting through your assist, use Zylon. The other alternative which is what I tend to do is to use split rings and swivels. Not even a wahoo is going to bite through this!

MikeOsborn:
try some lumo tubing over the assist cord.

Jon Jarvis:
Not tried on doggies but I have been trialling single strand assists. Then heat shrink over the top. Doesnt seem to affect hit rate. Only tried on Bottom fish and macks so far though.

Steve Carruthers:
Thanks guys, anybody tried the shout metal assists?

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