Jungle Jim
Guest
I guess it's time to unveil a little secret or two.................
When I mentioned 20 pound mono I was not referring to the over the shelf shit at WalMart.
I always haul ten or fifteen conventional rod and reel setups for two basic trolling scenarios, inshore and offshore, with four spinning setups just in case I find an active bait ball to pitch spoons into.
My inshore trolling gear is light with 20 pound test and offshore gear medium with 40 pound test. For inshore action I use the smallest level wind reels like the Shimano Corsairs and load them up with 20 pound moss green P-Line CXXG co-polymer line. This line has super knot strength and almost no stretch. I've never had a knot break at the lure and the instant a fish takes the trolled lure it's hooked solid. I deliberately drag and bounce my lures over rocks and this line never gets roughed up. As I said above, every time I reel in, I run my fingers down the last six feet to the knot at the lure. If I feel any roughness I cut off six feet and retie the lure. The moss green is invisible in our mostly murky inshore waters. I never use any type of terminal tackle as that junk always interferes with the designed action of the lure. I buy the 3000 yard spools and strip and replace the stuff on every reel at least twice a year.
I spend hours testing my deep diving lures to determine how they run at different speeds and how they track, left or right. I usually pull three at a time while inshore with the outside rigs running with seventy five feet out and the center transom rig short at about fifty feet. I try to run as fast as the lures will stay submerged in order to foil the Trigger Fish and smaller Cabrillas. The smaller Groupers can bolt off the bottom and swallow a lure with incredible speed often time swallowing a small Cabrilla already hooked with the lure in it's mouth.
On Sunday afternoon we were at JJ's Cantina eating delicious fish tacos and slurping down TKS and vodka a los rockas when we spotted a solitary Vaquita Porpoise no more than seventy five feet out in three feet of water slowly working west with two Brown Pelicans following him. Not ONE drunk at JJ's spotted it, although a group of six kids on kayaks tried in vain to keep up with him.
Tight lines and BLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODY decks!
JJ
When I mentioned 20 pound mono I was not referring to the over the shelf shit at WalMart.
I always haul ten or fifteen conventional rod and reel setups for two basic trolling scenarios, inshore and offshore, with four spinning setups just in case I find an active bait ball to pitch spoons into.
My inshore trolling gear is light with 20 pound test and offshore gear medium with 40 pound test. For inshore action I use the smallest level wind reels like the Shimano Corsairs and load them up with 20 pound moss green P-Line CXXG co-polymer line. This line has super knot strength and almost no stretch. I've never had a knot break at the lure and the instant a fish takes the trolled lure it's hooked solid. I deliberately drag and bounce my lures over rocks and this line never gets roughed up. As I said above, every time I reel in, I run my fingers down the last six feet to the knot at the lure. If I feel any roughness I cut off six feet and retie the lure. The moss green is invisible in our mostly murky inshore waters. I never use any type of terminal tackle as that junk always interferes with the designed action of the lure. I buy the 3000 yard spools and strip and replace the stuff on every reel at least twice a year.
I spend hours testing my deep diving lures to determine how they run at different speeds and how they track, left or right. I usually pull three at a time while inshore with the outside rigs running with seventy five feet out and the center transom rig short at about fifty feet. I try to run as fast as the lures will stay submerged in order to foil the Trigger Fish and smaller Cabrillas. The smaller Groupers can bolt off the bottom and swallow a lure with incredible speed often time swallowing a small Cabrilla already hooked with the lure in it's mouth.
On Sunday afternoon we were at JJ's Cantina eating delicious fish tacos and slurping down TKS and vodka a los rockas when we spotted a solitary Vaquita Porpoise no more than seventy five feet out in three feet of water slowly working west with two Brown Pelicans following him. Not ONE drunk at JJ's spotted it, although a group of six kids on kayaks tried in vain to keep up with him.
Tight lines and BLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODY decks!
JJ
