FAQs

Yes, if you are using small strips or chunks on each hook. With a whole sardine or other fish you will have to use the circle assist hooks. There is no reason to use whole bait. Cut bait in small strips or chunks tipped on each hook work great. It is the action of lure and scent of bait that makes it appealing.

Tip the jig on both hooks and fish from the top of the water column to the bottom, stopping every 20 ft. or so to lightly raise and lower the rod tip. Then let bait fall another 20 ft. or so until you feel a bite. If you fish from bottom up sometimes the big ones do not have a chance to get to the bait as smaller fish land right on structure for safety and may snatch it first. The bigger ones are always above or to the side of structure and can swim anywhere they want, snatching a jig that glows and mimics a wounded baitfish on the move.

Yes, when fish are up high in the water column, tip the jig and long cast it off the back of the boat. As it hits the water, engage the reel and the jig swims back toward the boat with a tight line all the way back. You will usually get hit coming back toward the boat.

Have a 1oz or a 3oz on a pitch rod in case we see a ling on top. We then throw far enough in front of him so not to spook him but for him to get a look at it. Then reel in fast until he starts to follow it then stall the bait so it swims down and they usually hit it on the drop.

Yes, very effectively. Pull them on weed lines for dolphin with or without bait. For slow trolling 3-5 knots troll with a whole sardine on a short hook. For trolling 6+knots for kings or wahoo no bait is needed because speed will tear off bait. You can troll these up to 12 knots without bait attached.

This can be done by first going dead in the water. Drop baits to whatever depths you want to troll each one, get rods ready to troll, then start slow trolling. The baits will stay at the depths you set without coming up as long as you’re slow trolling at no more 3-4 knots max or bump trolling (bumping the throttle in and out of gear). The goal is to go as slowly as the bait can keep up with the boat. Keep enough slack in your lines to where the baits could take evasive action from predator fish, as they would in a natural environment.

The heads have a glow underneath the powder coat so they glow in true color. They are light activated by either sunlight or artificial light as deck lights. When fishing at night, hold the head up to bright light for a few seconds, then fish them. After dark you will have to reactivate glow each time you reel in by holding the head toward light for a few seconds.