Boca 11/26 - Sails and Snappers

HurricaneBK

Beautiful day off Boca yesterday with the Badattitude fishing crew. We had a nice variety of fish and action pretty much all day. Started off with a few kingfish bites on the vertical jig, finally landing a nice one which was followed shortly by a double on sails on the kite. Another probable sail/mystery fish on the kite hit as well that we fought for a few minutes while it pulled drag. The wind died down and we were contemplating a move in shallower to try for kings when we noticed some nice activity on the bottom machine. Some more vertical jigging brought up an AJ followed shortly by a small red grouper and finally a vermillion snapper. Realizing we were on vermillions we switched over to targeting them and limited out in about an hour.

Hook N Up

You got to tell me how you get kings on the vertical jig as we jig a lot but always seem to get cut off all the time and don't target kings with the jigs. Thanks for the Intel.


David

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JIMinPB

Hook N Up wrote: »

we jig a lot but always seem to get cut off all the time

I keep wire n a couple of jigs for that very reason.

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Thanks for the reply as that's what I figured. Haven't tried it yet but will do for sure as we were jigging up AJ's this weekend and got cut off at least 4 times. what size wire and what length? Just trying to get an idea. Thanks.


David

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HurricaneBK

I lost two jigs before getting hit on the third. I have assist hooks with wire which seemed to help but yeah you do lose them a lot. Kings seem to love vertical jigs, just a matter of not getting bit off. I like something in the 200g range but honestly don't know if color/shape of the jig matter much.

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Thanks for the Intel. Will try the wire for sure, just wonder size wire as I can see it getting bent up when jigging.


David

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HurricaneBK

Hook N Up wrote: »

Thanks for the Intel. Will try the wire for sure, just wonder size wire as I can see it getting bent up when jigging.


David

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Here's a good discussion on the use of wire while jigging.

http://forums.floridasportsman.com/showthread.php?69757-Wire-for-vertical-jigging

and on how to rig titanium wire

http://forums.floridasportsman.com/showthread.php?72808-Rigging-Vertical-jigs-Butterfly-jigs-Speed-jigs-TIP-for-the-weekend

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Appreciate it.


David

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