Sunday, April 22, 2007

Slicing Gags on the KNIFE-JIG in 60 to 80ft

Some new tackle to try. A friend of mine, Kevin, who fishes all over the world told me about a new rod that came out. It was the TVC-66mh Trevala. And the guys at Dog-Fish had them.

I told him I already had 2 of them connected to Penn 4/0 Precision auto reels. I go on to tell him how you cannot break it even with the electro. So we stop by Dog-Fish and looked at them to see if it was the same rod I had. And it was. But the difference was they had the Torsa 16N hooked up to it. Kevin got the rod & reel for us to use on our fishing trip.

In Kevin's travels he picked several kinds and sizes of Knife jigs from all over the globe. We use them every trip. We have caught almost every kind of fish on them. This kind of jig Blacks and Scamp really like. I have caught more Gags on the Knife than any other jig I have used in all my years. And I have been a Jig Man since the beginning.

On this particular trip instead of dropping a natural bait to the bottom on the drift to see if they where there we dropped the KNIFE to see what was up. Also we did this because the Red-snapper where so thick you couldn't hit the bottom for the first 15minutes. The KNIFE cut right passed the Red-snapper and got down into Blackie territory. The Snaps ate the gig too but not near as if it would have been a natural bait.

If the Gags were there and ready to fire you would find out quick with the Knife. Wow what excitement to get slammed on a jig by a black. I think the feeling is better or equal to sex. If the Knife got bit we would anchor. If not we would move on to the next one. The Knife really helped cut through the shizzet of wasted time fishing a school of Red-snapper. If Snapper season was open it would have been a different story.

We started fishing 50 miles SW of The Withlacochie in 65ft and worked our way WNW to 83ft for the day. The Winter bite is over. The big schools of Gags that where in this depth for the last couple months have moved on. There are mostly homesteader's left the rest went deeper to spawn.

The bite was slow overall for what I expected. Look forward to a great snapper season. Some of the smaller stock from 2 years ago have grown up enough to spawn. They are moving deeper and their babies are starting to show up even shallower than I have ever seen.

The bait of the trip was the KNIFE-JIG, live pins and sardines.

The catch:
  • 1RustyBelly
  • 15Gags
  • 4Redgrouper
  • 2Triggerfish.

The 30 and 40break should be hot this month. Hopefully the weather will cooperate and let us do some deep-water fishing this week. If you want to see the Trevala-TVC-66mh with the Torsa-16N, or the Shimano Butterfly Jigs. Dog-Fish has it all.

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