Just wanted to share what two of our jig testers caught the past week.
Grant, who starts off in the dark on the Westside, targeting akule before the opelu bite turns on, hooked 4 menpachi papio / pake papio / sasa / bigeye trevally on the green&yellow 60g jig on his last 2 trips. Even though he wasn’t purposefully charging the glow jig, it must have picked up enough juice to stand out. Menpachi papio make really good, dark meat sashimi and he shared his catch with coworkers.
Terry was fishing the blue&silver in 30ft off a reef channel on the Windward side with his Temple Reef Elevate 2.0 jigging rod and Siegler SGN reel, just using the rod tip to bounce the jig off the bottom, when he hooked something with strong head shakes. He assumed it was a good sized white papio and was surprised to see stripes and a yellow tint. He bled the pao’pao (golden trevally) on the yak, and it weighed 5.5lb on shore. It made, by far, the best tasting papio sashimi he’s ever had. Pao’pao are very hard to catch on lures and most often speared as they come over the edge of the reef.
And by the way, Terry is rocking the Anetik Shade Socks that prevent sunburnt legs and are easy to put on and take off at the beach. We have a few left in the Store in size Medium and Large.
I bet the smaller 40g size would be even more effective on these jacks that are targeting small baits. Problem is, none of the testers have that smaller size. I gotta get those jigs to them soon.
Sorry I haven’t put the jigs in the Store yet. Since they are a new product I really wanted to make sure they would perform as expected. and decide on a fair selling price. Tungsten jigs are very expensive.
At this point, the little jigs have proven to fool even the smartest, tastiest fish.
