Thread: Massacre on the Hill

It is very simple Nixon. All I do is spider rig at a long lining speed (.8-1.2 mph). I use a 3/4oz weight to hold my jig at what ever depth I want it. Takes ALL the guess work out of size line, size jig, how much line to let out for your jig to run so deep, and so on. A VERY simple method. If I run over a school of fish, I can turn around on a dime because I know how deep my jigs are. Long lining you have to make a wide turn. I can go in any cove and fish it at a long lining speed. If the fish are biting slow, guess what, I can slow down to .1 or even stop, because I know how deep my jigs are. I feel the way I fish is a win win situation. Hope this will help you understand it better.

Originally Posted by thespiderman

It is very simple Nixon. All I do is spider rig at a long lining speed (.8-1.2 mph). I use a 3/4oz weight to hold my jig at what ever depth I want it. Takes ALL the guess work out of size line, size jig, how much line to let out for your jig to run so deep, and so on. A VERY simple method. If I run over a school of fish, I can turn around on a dime because I know how deep my jigs are. Long lining you have to make a wide turn. I can go in any cove and fish it at a long lining speed. If the fish are biting slow, guess what, I can slow down to .1 or even stop, because I know how deep my jigs are. I feel the way I fish is a win win situation. Hope this will help you understand it better.

Nixon he left off the part about needing to have a crime dog...dogy sniffs the air and scratches on a large map showing Spider where to fish I've seen him he's a beast

Just for that Quick, crime dawg just doubled his fishing guide service fee for you. Now everyone knows your secrete on how you catch your fish.

Nice Job Doug !! Sorry i haven't had a chance to hook up with you this year but this new job is kicking my tail. Keep up the fine work!!

Originally Posted by thespiderman

It is very simple Nixon. All I do is spider rig at a long lining speed (.8-1.2 mph). I use a 3/4oz weight to hold my jig at what ever depth I want it. Takes ALL the guess work out of size line, size jig, how much line to let out for your jig to run so deep, and so on. A VERY simple method. If I run over a school of fish, I can turn around on a dime because I know how deep my jigs are. Long lining you have to make a wide turn. I can go in any cove and fish it at a long lining speed. If the fish are biting slow, guess what, I can slow down to .1 or even stop, because I know how deep my jigs are. I feel the way I fish is a win win situation. Hope this will help you understand it better.

Ok, so tell me about your rod set up. I actually use a variation of this a lot when I longline. My standard setup for longlineing is 14', 12' 10' out each side and 7' and 5.5' angled out the back. One day I found myself wanting to push jigs and just had these rods in the boat, So I rigged for that. The next time I went I wanted to longline and was by myself. After re rigging 4 of the rods I just plain got lazy and dropped the 10' over the side rigged just like they were. They caught just as many fish as the longlines did. I use that a lot now.
So, my question .....when I push jigs or minnows, I usually run 8- 14' rods across the front. When/if they get hung up I/we are generally running slow enough to be able to back up in time to prevent anything from getting broke. Will I be able to do this at 1+ mph. My main fishing partner is a 12 yr old, so I need good rod management skills.LOL