1. Yes if you are jigging correctly be ready to part with quite a few jigs. 3oz-5oz, depending on how fast the current is ripping.
2. I have been having the same results. I think it is the eels that we get up here.

I know how to fish em right cause they worked on the cape, cuttyhunk, and RI for me.
3. check your pm's
4.I believe he shares a cave with Pepe Lepew
5. Like John R said the Rhody leg is this saturday, head south.
6. You got to stop eating those bean burritos before you head out
7. If the reel has a big line roller it should be ok. Try fireline, it seemed to work on more reels for me than whiplash did.
8.Well I can say that you should get proficient with one before you start jigging in the canal with one.....
