Jigging with new Berkley Elevator Jigs

http://www.reefari.com Jigging with the new Berkley Elevator jigs was well worthwile out on a recent fishing trip, hooking 3 absolute monsters on one shoal, Not sure what they were, but three drifts, three big hookups, and Lee was buggered, top effort. In the end the leader was too light and wore through. Lee had 60 lb leader on but with big fish and long fights, worth using heavier leader, would recommend 80 or 100 lb. Must have been either big cobia or Monster Golden Trevally. They’ll fight hard and take some stopping.
These new elevator jigs are awesome and well worth having a few in your tackle box. And well worth using in deeper water, we were fishing in about 50 metres. These new jigs are nice and heavy allowing you to fish the depths, but also have a nice articulated head joining the hook, still allowing plenty of movement with your soft plastic. Lee upgraded to a bigger hook and is well worth considering depending on your target fish and size. Well worth trying these new Berkley elevator jigs and we’ll be using them alot more.
These jigs were developed by Mark ‘The Captain’ Phillips while targeting Snapper and Kings in New Zealand and are also well suited to deepwater jigging on the Great Barrier reef.

The idea was to get Berkley Gulp Jerkshads jigs down deep quickly and still retain that deadly fluttering, wounded baitfish action and obviously works!!

The comparisons are here in Australia, with Snapper, Kings, Cobes, reefies and anything big that hangs in deep water and eats baitish will find this innovative set up hard to resist. Used in conjunction with Nitro Elevator hooks and Berkley Gulp soft plastics! these are deadly tools when you need to get a softbait down into the depths quickly.

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Underwater Vertical Jigging Tai Kabura Jigs

A brief video describing one of the methods we use with Tai-Kabura type vertical jigs. In this case, we are using a small 3/4 oz (21gr) jig tied above a 5.5 oz jig (150gr). When this set up is jigged properly, the smaller kabura will “pop” and change direction quickly. We believe this unique action draws strikes.
These jigs are available at www.TheJigHQ.com. Thank you for watching

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Lure challenge Xrap Magnum 20 V Rapala CD18 V JP Mungo Firestick

http://www.reefari.com This Lure Challenge puts three favourite lures up against each other to see what the best lure is. An interesting lure test with the Xrap Magnum 20 winning on the day, and also lost in battle in the end. These lures have been a great performer and also the Magnum Xrap 30 is a definate must have in your tackle box, and that good I would always have one in your lure spread. The amount of trips I’ve been on, and they been the gun lure, catching about twice the fish, per lure when compared to other lures. Other awesome lures are the Halco lazer pro, and RMG Scorpions.
They have great appeal and will catch fish of all species, from Mackerel to Coral trout and everything found amongst the Great barrier reef and edges. We also ran a Rapala CD18, one of the original famous Mackerel lures, and JP Mungo firestick deep divers, another awesome lure. Bit early in the mackerel season but knowing a few had been caught we thought we go for a quick troll around the nearby Keswick and St Bee Islands. First up a 17 Kg Spanish Mackerel fell to the Xrap Magnum 20 lure and we were pretty impressed. Bit more trolling and trying the local hot spots, ended up back at Singapore rock at the end of the day. Check the video out, but must have had a small mackerel on, which in turn got belted by a shark, ending up in alot of grief and hurt for me. I did the sensible thing and handed the rod over to Jason, as I am still recovering from a Spinal fusion operation. Long story short, the Shark won it’s freedom after a tense tug of war with Jason, And of course one less Magnum Xrap lure, and all on it’s first swim. Please keep an eye out for whaler shark around Singapore Rock!!
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1000lb Bluefin Tuna PEI

Fished aboard the Lil’ Miss Maddy with Captain Tony McDonald and the Princess Nova with Captain Bradley McDonald for Giant Tuna for a few days. We were able to land an 800lb in 40 mins and multiple 1000lb+ Giant Bluefin Tuna on an 80 standup setup with a Braid Powerplay rod and an Okuma Makaira reel.

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