smith AMJ-S54H

[Sam Beeby]

I'm looking to use one jig rod between my heavy rod, a JM 3 kings 300 (250-400g) right down to a T curve saltwater 5-10kg.  It needs to be able to jig 100g properly but also handle 250-300g jigs in 100m off sydney. I was looking at the 3 kings 200 (120-300g) until I started loooking thru posts about the AMJ-S54H. Despite having heavier looking specs you guys seemed to think that it was even capable of jigging down 80g at a pinch.

Do you think this would be the rod for the job or would an AMJ-S56M be better? If anyone has the JM 3 kings 200 I'd be interested to know what jig range you get out of it?

Also, the AMJ-S54H says '-280g'. Does this mean jig max 280g or up to 280g?

thanks
sam

[Leo Sorbello]

Hi Sam,

I've sent you a PM.

Twice that I've used my AMJ -S54H there were short periods that I was using upto 300 grams with no worries at all felt good, changed back down to between 240-280 grams when the wind dropped off little and jigging shallower at the time ( i.e. 55 - 85 meters ).

Tight Lines !

Regards

Leo

[Sam Beeby]

sorry, my last question was meant to read - is the rating ideal jig = 280g  or is it up to 280g?
thanks

[Peter Childs]

Hey Sam,  I've been using a S54H off Terrigal matched to a Salty 4500H jigging for kings (PE4), its a nice rod!  I generally match it up with jigs around 210 - 250 grams, my favourite pairing is is around 230 grams.  Terrigal is around 100 - 110m.  I occassionally drop to 150 grams, and the rod seems to work OK, I think it will be a little stiff on 100 grams, but still work OK as an infill.  The 280 is meant to be a max rating, but like others have said it will handle 300 OK, so it has a pretty wide range.

I have a 3 Kings medium (overhead) and it slots in nicely below this.  I have also been using a 52M (overhead) as well, which I really like.  The 52M is rated to 280 (being a little shorter than the spin version) but optimally around 200 - 250 I reckon.  The M class blank is considerably lighter than the the H and whilst I haven't used the S56M I could see that the 230 max rating for this rod would really pull it up, I dont think I would want to be using a 300 gram jig on that.  100 - 200 would conceivably be comfortable (I'm thinking jigging in 40 - 60m).

Hope this helps, cheers.

[Tak Otsuka]

Hi Sam,

It is "up to".

Like others said it takes wide range of jigs and it is no problems to exceed max weight. Also same weight jigs in different shape and weight ratio actions differently and generally centre-weighted long slider jigs for example are bit more actionable than the others in the same weight and you can go heavier with this type of jigs.

Cheers,
Tak

[Sam Beeby]

 So by the sounds of it the overhead 52M might fill the gap but the longer spin version 56M definitely wouldn't. I just wanted to make sure that the AMJ-S54H still didn't have heaps in reserve up around the 280-300g mark, overlapping too far into, and  sort of defeating the purpose of having the JM 3 kings 53M.
If anyone has played with the JM 200 53L, is it much heavier in the hand than the AMJ-S54H or is it about on par?

thanks

[Sam Beeby]

Thanks Tak. Thats good to hear. That was going to be the plan when I found myself in 100m - to use the 54H maxing out with centre weighted 300g jigs and use my overhead for tail weighted 300's.

Hopefully it might still work ok at the other end with little tail weighted 100g jigs.

thanks for the help.

[Richard Ghalayini]

I've got the amj 56M and I've jigged 400 grams RS zero droppers  :-\My mates said I was nuts doing it but hey we live in a nutty world of angling at times