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Date: April 02, 2002 at 23:44:11
From: ken, [pool-64-223-18-130.prov.east.verizon.net]
Subject: Part 2.1
When we fish alone and have good results it is a pleasing experience. I have fished with these little jigs for many years and have always been more than pleased with their effectivness yet, there was a single day that really brought home how really effective they are. It was the last week in April about 9 or 10 years ago and I knew where there was a big school of bass in the open ocean on the south shore of R.I. I went there in the early afternoon and rigged up a little 7 1/2 foot fresh water spinning rod. I was using 6 Lb. test XT and a reel that held about 250 yards of line. I had been fishing with this type of outfit for several years in the surf for bass and I had fished in this place several times in the previous week. I had a paper bag full of ring worms and kalin grubs of various colors and I had absolute confidence in what was going to take place.
There were several other fishermen there casting jigs and jigs with droppers. They were catching fish regularly and having a good time. I went to the edge of the beach and stood back from the surf and made a little cast, about 50' and as the jig started to fall and the line was being pulled down it stopped. This was about 2 seconds after it hit the water. I lifted the tip and I had a fish on. I kept doing this same thing for a very long time entranced by the quickness of the takes and trying to refine my awareness of the takes. I tried several different grubs and found that on that day a 3 1/2 " bluegill kalin grub was the high percentage lure with a 1/16 oz. jig. As the lure fell a bass would take it and if one didn't I would pop the tip and reel to bring the jig back up and let it fall again. The jig very seldom had to be popped up more than once. A few hours went by and then I took a break and walked back up the beach and a fellow came up to me who knew who I was. He said "Hi Ken, I thought I was doing good until you showed up what are you doing"? I told him and showed him and he said "Well I'll be dam--d, I would have never thought those little bass things would be any good for stripers but they sure are. How many did you catch? I didn't know so I said, "I don't know, twenty or thirty I guess". And he said I counted fifty-two once I started counting and I think I missed some.
That is not bad fishing or catching and I did not catch a single fish by retrieving the jig through the water. Any body who can rig a spinning rod and trusts in his ability to see the takes can do it easily. They all took on the fall and the 'fall' that day was with a bluegill kalin grub with a 1/16 oz. jig with a hard tempered hook, razor sharp, six pound test line with a very light drag, I use my finger on the side of the spool actually, I don't like drags all that much for light tackle fishing they blow more fish than they help you catch in my opinion, and very short, 20 to 50' casts to where the fish were holding just on the outside edge of where the waves started to build. It was a steep dropping beach but the fish seemed to always hit in the first 2 to 4 seconds of the drop and the only way you could tell was by watching the interface of where the line was being pulled down by the weight of the jig. You could not feel the hit because of the slack needed to let the jig fall straight down. There are lots of other techniques that work but this was the one that was so effective that day. The kalin grubs work better for me because they swim so well, the tail is paper thin and it flutters when the jig is hardly moving. The fish were deeper than I was fishing but they would see that little critter swim down slowly and rise up to meet it with no hesitation. This is one of my favorite techniques with these small jigs. Part 2.2 to come!
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