When you are long lining in 15 to 35+ feet of water, what size jig head and how much extra lead do you use?
don3778
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When you are long lining in 15 to 35+ feet of water, what size jig head and how much extra lead do you use?
don3778
Ok admin, delete this post. Don't guess I needed an answer.
Hi Don....Go to the SC sticky board forum, lots of great reading about long lining.....good luck....
Try posting on the Mississippi forum.....lots more folks there doing long lining........
I'm not sure you can get down 35+ feet longlining with any reasonable amount of lead. But this product from one of our sponsors would certainly help.Quote:
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2 oz or 3 oz eagle claw swivel sinkers 3 or 4 feet in front of your jigs.
Sorry Don, I was going to reply to your post yesterday but then realized you were talking about long lining and I only tight line or fish under a cork now so I didn't respond.
How deep are you wanting to fish in the 15 to 35 fow ?
Ok, well, I guess I was talking about tight lining, not trolling with long lines. This time of the year our fish go deep and hold either on the edge or in the creek itself and that can run from 15 to 30 + fow. What I was trying to ask is how big of a jig head and how much extra weight would you use in this situation. I've seen guys here that still use just the jig and others that use a weight in front of their jig
Sometimes all the way to 35 ft.
I would use a 3/ 8 egg sinker if not too windy...if windy use a half oz. egg sinker........run your line through the sinker and make three or four loops through it to hold sinker in place....leave about 18 inches on the tag end to tie on to your jig. I would use a 1/8 oz jig.
In that case, I usually run a 4 jig setup and it depends on the wind. In light wind, I use 4 - 1/16 oz jigs and in windy conditions, I use 4 - 1/8 oz jigs but I usually don't fish deeper than 25 feet. Hope this helps some.
I run two jig set ups.....thats all we can use in MS......thats what I run Spider rigging with a half oz. Weight between them.