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Old 08-24-2016, 07:08 AM   #8
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How deep are you jigging? My understanding about jigging for trout, you drop jig near the bottom, then raise up 2-3 feet. Now you raise (jig) lurer up, let it drop down, then repeat. If you're jigging deep water, you'd need a lot of line!

Do I understand jigging correctly ?
Anywhere from 80'- 140' and it must be calm on the water! Send jig down to bottom, bounce off bottom a couple times, reel up a couple feet and jig, repeat until you come up through stacked lakers seen on fish finder screen. Lakers are normally stacked from bottom to 40' off bottom. A standard spinning reel with a 20 lb super braid as your main line with 10' of 15 lb fluorocarbon as a leader. You want to minimize stretch as much as possible. I use a Mitchell 300 reel on a 7' Fenwick medium power graphite spinning rod. Great fun bringing them in on this light tackle...

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