Extreme Jigging: Dogtooth Tuna, Yellowtail Kingfish (Hiramasa), Amberjack, Samson Fish > Tackle & Techniques

leader for big jig dogs

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Brandon Khoo:
Again, no set rules. I like enough length so you can leader a fish next to the boat.
Corey, do you live in the area? If you're living in the region of Marovo, you should have access to loads of GTs

Corey Howell:
yes mate, i live on Gatokae, the eastern tip of Marovo. awesome GTs but when you live with em you start looking for something different - hence the new doggie jigging investment

i only use the gear occasionally, the Wilderness guides have got the real work proving up best jigging locations for clients, fun to help out

had some friends bring the outift over and we went out Tue evening to christen it out the front, got annihilated three times in a row - saltiga drag wound out on 100lb jigman and the venom 450 noodled - didnt even slow them down let alone looking like turning their heads before they got back to the bottom. was sobering stuff. back to the drawing board ;)

Corey Howell:
after getting smoked tried again with 50cm of 026 single strand wire in the hope that might help when the dog reached the bottom, but in typical tuna fashion they wouldnt bite with that wire on there, despite being 100m down, on dusk, with a lumo jig - gotta love those doggie eyes eh.

Corey Howell:
sobering stuff reading thru the posts rgds jigging XL doggies, and the broad consensus that most-if-not-all of em r simply going to just blow you away. no contest. despite all the technology in yr $ gear investment, travel expenditure and effort, practice, experience etc etc. and not to forget time spent on forums ;)

thats one helluva summation of the doggie as a worthy opponent. and after being repeatedly [0 from 12 encounters and counting] blown away on 100lb braid and Z6500, well.......i'm not about to refute that conclusion

to take the discussion into realms i most likely cant afford - and prob not physically handle [and without taking all the fun out of it like the 130lb-chair-outfit-in-the-covering-board tactics the Van guys resort to] what happens when you go all out with gear and try stopping the bastards with 200lb braid on custom ultra heavy spin gear? is anyone managing to bully their way beyond the simple laws of physics as laid down by XL doggies?

gym memberships? roids? amphetamines ?

good luck!

Corey
Solomon Islands

Matt Born:
0 for 12 is massively unlucky man!! as you say! crazy fish to catch!!

guess its about what you can handle + what the fish will still take - leader wise... + lots and lots of Luck.

looking fwd to a pic of one of the monsters when your luck changes

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