Shallow Sambo Jigging

Headout with Kane on his Trophy for a day as a deckie. I really enjoy the odd deckie spot as opposed to normally skippering my tug and this was no exception.

 

We all just wanted an arm stretching, so a day of jigging up sambos was the target. Kane supplied the boat, I supplied the sambo spots, and off we went early this morning. Apart from a terrible little Humingbird GPS/Sounder (soon to be replaced) the Trophy was excellent and rode really well.

 

First spot just as the sun popped its head up in 35 m, I went with PE2 gear, Kane and Troy PE3 and PE4. Secd drop, I land a nice skippy released. Next drop, bang, MUCH bigger.........no stopping this beast on PE2, and I was duly bricked for my troubles...........I grabbed the PE3 outfit, drop, crank, bang, on, and another big model gave me plenty on PE3. Not a bad shallow water sambo.

 

 

With the sounder being prety well useless and things going quiet, it was decided to head off to some deeper spots, and pretty soon 3 way hookups were the norm, with us landing plenty of small sambos on light gear. Great fun. Troy, who had never jigged before, got 4 fish in 4 drops, ncluding this little Amberjack. He was amazed how hard the little ambers go.

 

Kane got the 8lb bream gear out, but after 2 drops for 2 lost jigs, decided that was a bad idea! Back to PE3.....

 

Then me and Kane both hookup, and after a few minutes, my line goes slack and lost my fish and jig.....bugger!!!! Kane then complains his fish just got bigger.......huh.....then up cmes a double header for Kane, but on 2 jigs! My jig had been hooked by Kanes jigs, snapped my line, and then Kane brought it all in. Kanes fish fell off as he went to land it, but mine was stll there, on my purple jig....wierd.

 

 

On the way home we had another shallow jig, and landed a small dhu released, followed by the likely fish of the day. After about a minute on PE3, it bricked me, suspected donkey dhu as there were no big sambo runs, just heavy, short powerful spurts until he found his hole.

 

We ended up hooking a LOT of fish, only landed around half, and lost a lot of jigs, but had a ball!

 

Cheers Fellas.

 

 

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I didnt know u can use high

Sun, 2012-08-19 18:24

I didnt know u can use high speed jigs in so shallow water. I thought there are more for the barges...

I must give that a shot.

Is it possible that I saw u guys at the hillaries ramp this arvo? I was in a small haines hunter next to u I think.....

Anyway nice fish guys!!!!

Seb

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Wholey snappin donkey look at

Sun, 2012-08-19 18:34

Wholey snappin donkey look at the size of that first fish!! Epic

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Seb, we came in around 2 pm

Sun, 2012-08-19 18:35

Seb, we came in around 2 pm to hillarys, so was probably us.

In shallow water, flutter type jigs with centre weight tend to work better than speed jigs ( bottom weighted).

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Cheers for the Info, I gona

Sun, 2012-08-19 18:41

Cheers for the Info, I gona try that. We tend to fish a lot in the 30-40meter cuz I have a small boat(5meter breeze) and dont really wanne go to the barges.

Yep around two thats when we got back , next time I say hello to you guys!

Cheers

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Sure mate

Mon, 2012-08-20 15:39

Next time definitely come and say hi :-) I wasnt really paying attention - from memory there was a small fibreglass boat in front of us when we pulled up, didnt really take much notice of the other boats on the other ramps.... so i wouldnt be able to recognise you again - sorry mate.

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Sounds like a great day.  

Sun, 2012-08-19 18:44

Sounds like a great day.   well done

Those ajax go bloody hard for their size, for sure.

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Ohhhh You Bastard!! Nice fish

Sun, 2012-08-19 18:59

Ohhhh You Bastard!! Nice fish mate.Kanes testing fate with the jig to snap swivel caper though.. ha ha

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Haha, just what I thought

Sun, 2012-08-19 19:29

Haha, just what I thought when I saw that open clip!

Don't do it jigging, its not worth it!

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cracker first photo

Sun, 2012-08-19 19:13

challenging in the shallows.

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Yeah, kanes snap swivel rig

Sun, 2012-08-19 19:33

Yeah, kanes snap swivel rig is a bit low rent but seemed to work......we will teach him the secret ways of the jiggers yet Till......

Grayzeee, you missed out mate! Next time.

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I did miss out too.Sat was

Sun, 2012-08-19 20:08

I did miss out too.

Sat was fair at best for me.   next time indeed!

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looks like a great day mate,

Sun, 2012-08-19 19:52

looks like a great day mate, lucky on the jig getting it back? so who claimed the catch?

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Sea anchor

Sun, 2012-08-19 19:54

 Hey John, did Kane break out the sea anchor he got off me yesterday? Sounds like you guys had a ball! We nailed a few shallow sambos last wk and got smoked on a few before I tried chopping my finger off! 

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hey duncan

Sun, 2012-08-19 20:32

we never had to use the sea anchor in the end, probably should have after lunch but for most of the day the drift was slow enough to not need it.

Yep top day, kinda amazing the amount of fish caught considering the shit humminbird sounder / gps installed, imagine how well we will go when i finally get some sweet sweet flash whizzbang electronics ;-)

had a great day out, thanks again to john and troy for alot of fun

untill next time :D

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solid fish mate would have

Sun, 2012-08-19 20:36

solid fish mate would have been fun in that depth of water