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Slipknot · 09-24-2006, 04:00 PM

thanks Labrax, keep at it and i'm sure you'll get your share of decent bass there too.
I don't mean to sound egotistical but 20 pounds has been average there lately for us jigging. We are out there to catch the fish that is gonna hurt us, bend the rod so hard and put such a strain on the equipment that you think the fish is gonna pull you right in the water. That's the kind of bass we are after in the canal jigging. I have had a handful that were partway there, 2 40's and some high 30's but haven't have one spool me or attempt to yet. I may have broken some off but never knew it, but since they were not caught, I'll never know what they were, the guys I fish with have been tested before and lost also. I try to have heavy enough gear to stop a large fish from turning his head and peeling off line like it's nothing, and with a 4 or 5 knot current helping the fish, it is not that easy, even when they stop, they get settled into a crack or crevice among the rocks on the bottom, the huge fish know what to do and where to go. they didn't grow that big by being stupid. I want a bass so heavy that every component from the jig all the way to the rod butt is tested to it's maximum. And it has to come from the center of the canal where it's the most challenging to try to land. Then other obsitcles have to get in the way like trees and poles and bridges that I can't walk past with the fish and follow it downcurrent like some pluggers do with large fish from up on the service road. That is the challenge of landing a 50 in the canal on a jig, I don't know anyone who has done it on a true jig while jigging the bottom out deep with 100 yards or so of line out there. I have to keep going back even when I an so tired I can't move. Winter is too long. so good luck

09-24-2006, 04:00 PM	#6
Slipknot Super Moderator iTrader: (0) Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Middleboro MA Posts: 17,125	thanks Labrax, keep at it and i'm sure you'll get your share of decent bass there too. I don't mean to sound egotistical but 20 pounds has been average there lately for us jigging. We are out there to catch the fish that is gonna hurt us, bend the rod so hard and put such a strain on the equipment that you think the fish is gonna pull you right in the water. That's the kind of bass we are after in the canal jigging. I have had a handful that were partway there, 2 40's and some high 30's but haven't have one spool me or attempt to yet. I may have broken some off but never knew it, but since they were not caught, I'll never know what they were, the guys I fish with have been tested before and lost also. I try to have heavy enough gear to stop a large fish from turning his head and peeling off line like it's nothing, and with a 4 or 5 knot current helping the fish, it is not that easy, even when they stop, they get settled into a crack or crevice among the rocks on the bottom, the huge fish know what to do and where to go. they didn't grow that big by being stupid. I want a bass so heavy that every component from the jig all the way to the rod butt is tested to it's maximum. And it has to come from the center of the canal where it's the most challenging to try to land. Then other obsitcles have to get in the way like trees and poles and bridges that I can't walk past with the fish and follow it downcurrent like some pluggers do with large fish from up on the service road. That is the challenge of landing a 50 in the canal on a jig, I don't know anyone who has done it on a true jig while jigging the bottom out deep with 100 yards or so of line out there. I have to keep going back even when I an so tired I can't move. Winter is too long. so good luck
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