Slow Pitch Jigging VS Vertical Jigging | Saltwater jigging Basics & Tactics

welcome to south florida salt water fishing i'm heath and it's time to get into the bike wahoo in the boat baby that's a solid kingfish right there yeah nice dolphin there we go that's all patrolling for you let's do this let's do this okay so you're looking to get into gene but you might not necessarily know how to do it what type of jigging you want to do or generally just how to get started well in this episode we're going to clarify a lot of these answers about jigging and we're going to go over the difference between vertical jigging and slow pitch jig before we get into this though if you want to learn more about fishing grow as an angler or just see some great and exciting offshore fishing adventures you can start by hitting the subscribe button and don't forget to turn on the notification bell so that you won't miss a thing all right folks so we got some questions to answer about jing like i said we're going to go over the difference between vertical jigging and slow pitch jigging so to start out i want to go over the basic concepts of what they are vertical jigging also known as high speed jigging is described as the simulation of a bait fish trying to escape prey while racing upwards through the water column slow pitch jigging is described as technically bottom fishing mimicking a injured bait fish trying to retrieve from the seabed floor so if you're saying hey isn't jigging just jigging no it's not vertical jigging and slow pitch jigging are two entirely different things and the gear is different and the jigs are different and as you're going to see the fish that you're targeting are different too okay so the first thing i want to talk about since we're talking about the main difference of it is the technique vertical jigging is a rhythm you're going to have to learn to get into it you want to be in constant motion trying to keep a straight up and down presentation you've got to learn to keep your line moving one of the key factors of vertical jigging is you are reeling in on the fall of the jig never trying to let your line go slack you're always pumping and winding pumping and winding pumping and winding now sometimes you do give a big pump and you reel on the wind down pump reel on the wind down pump reel on the wind down but you're never really letting your jig do like a flutter and fall it's constantly in motion racing up towards the surface like i said you're fishing the water column slow pitch jigging is totally different the main factor of slow pitch jigging other than the fact that you're bottom fishing is you never want to reel on the fall you want to pitch the jig and let it fall and flutter to the ground come tight pitch and let it fall so as you can see there are two totally different techniques vertical jigging you're gonna get the strike on the wind up a lot and it's a vicious strike slow pitch jigging more times than not you're gonna get hit on the fall and you won't even know you have a fish until you come tight again so these are two entirely different techniques as you can see at the same time like i said you're going to get into a rhythm doing vertical jigging and i feel like slow pitch jigging is more of the imitation of the bait okay so now we've gone over the basic concepts i want to go over the differences in here but before we get into the gear i want to explain one thing the common factor for all jigging is brain you need braid so that your jig can act properly when under pressure and being retrieved if you have monofilament your monofilament will stretch when you go to jig and it will not make the jig do what it is technologically designed to do under the pressure of water all right so the first thing we're going to go over is your standard slow pitch jigging setup and that's what this is typically when you're slow pitch jigging i like to use a conventional reel and it is on a slow pitch jigging rod kind of looks like a bass rod but it's not trust me it is super tough this blank is meant to withstand a lot of pressure okay you can see the parabolic bend it gets and it's pliable like that so you can actually you know pitch your jig and let it fall this rod does several things it works the jig the next thing the rod does with this pliability is it helps set the hook has shock absorbency it will not yank the hook out of the fish's mouth upon the strike so what this setup is is this is an accurate from the boss fury series of 600 n 600 narrow and it's spooled with 30 pound j-brake 900 yards of j-braid on this one little reel that's right 2 700 feet the rod that it is on is a 78 inch star rod from the plasma 2 series as you can see the guides are what's called spiral wrap meaning they start up on top right here and they wrap counter-clockwise towards the tip what this technically does is it keeps your line from touching the blank upon the strike of a fish as your rod bends over in that parabolic fashion like i said slow pitch rods look fairly wimpy and skinny but they are all of mighty and tough they are made for slow pitch jigging they're not made for vertical jigging because they are too shock absorbent so when it comes to the leader that i'm using on this particular outfit i have about 15 feet of 40 pound fluorocarbon on it you don't need much leader when you're slow pitch digging i believe you don't need much leader when you're doing any type of joining and i have a connecting knot that is an alberto knot which fastens my leader directly to my main line okay and now we're going to go over a little bit of my vertical jigging setup this is pen battle 5000 kind of small but i like it light so i can sit there and i can jig all day the heavier the setup more stiffer the rod and you can do it but you might end up getting worn out if you're not in shape and so here's the other setup that i was talking about the heavier gear you know like i said if you're not in shape you're not used to that rhythm of jigging especially for long periods of time it can wear you out the reel's a little heavier the rod's a little heavier but yes as you can see this is a shorter rod this here is a 66 inch rod but it's got some pliability on it but it's still a little bit stiffer and the reel is you know a little bit heavier duty but personally i like the lighter gear when it comes to vertical jigging so as you can see i'm showing you spinners instead of conventional reels for me vertical jigging is way more easily accomplished and to get into their rhythm and that dance and that consistent motion when using a spinner so the same thing we've got braid this particular setup my lighter setup has 12 pound braid and i've got 20 pound fluorocarbon on it about 15 feet the same amount and again the rod that this is on is very pliable for when you get a strike it's going to bend over and it's going to help set the hook so that you don't yank the hook out of the fish's mouth when you are getting ready to retrieve it upon the strike now i'm not saying you can't use stiff rods i've used stiff rods and gotten into hookups and like you know pulling fish like amberjack and large false albacore stuff like that with it but if you're looking to really secure that bite upon the stripe you're going to want the rod to have some shock absorbency to it and before we move on i want to talk a little bit about the rigging typically when you're slow pitch jigging you either have just a solid ring or a barrel swivel hooked up to the end of your leader when you're vertical jigging you usually have your hook tied directly to the end of the leader either a single hook just like this or a pair of double hooks like this and like i said very important you're going to want to learn how to tie the alberto knot it's a safe and secure super strong streamlined knot that flows through your guides without getting hung up and it's strong enough to take on very large fish okay so now we've covered the concept and the gear and a little bit of the rigging i want to talk about the difference between the types of jigs so this is your standard knife jig used for vertical jigging all it has on the tip of it is a split ring like i said your hook is hooked to your main line of your leader and all you do is you attach your jig to your hook you can swap out jigs all day this is your typical slow pitch jig as you can see it has four hooks on it two sets at the top two sets at the bottom and both sets are hooked up with split rings so that you just hook them to the solid ring now you heard me talk about split rings and split ring pliers these are a pair of split ring pliers it's called that because it has this little tooth right here and what it does is it pinches it and it opens up the little split ring which is basically a miniature sized keyring if you're doing any sort of jigging you're going to want to get used to using these that way you can swap out your jigs easily and in a timely fashion all day long without having to use something like your fingernail risk breaking it or sticking a screwdriver in there and trying to wedge it open these pliers are made specifically for that type of purpose they're going to prevent injury and they're going to help you switch out your jig and get back in water fishing so as i said we've got vertical jig and we've got slow pitch jig the vertical jig is meant to race up through the water bobbin and weaving jigging and jigging as you're racing it up towards the surface to entice the bite from a fish that is hunting slow pitch jig you pitch and it falls and twists and it turns and it acts erratic pitch and falls and twists and turns and it acts erratic another one of the key differences between vertical jigging slow pitch jigging vertical jigging is typically going after fish that are actively hunting slow pitch jigging is almost meant to entice a fish that is at rest to feed because of the easy opportunity presented and now i want to go over another key difference between vertical jigging and slow pitch jigging that is the fish you're going to catch so we'll start out with vertical jigging more often than not when i'm vertical jigging i've caught amberjack and false albacore and the occasional tuna in the very rare kingfish or barracuda a lot of times i'll say hey if i'm going out and i'm looking for bait and i want to catch false albacore vertical jigging will get them into the bite it can get them frenzied up they're feeding up in the water column a lot of times slow pitch jigging is one of those techniques where you literally never know what you're gonna get i've caught everything from unexpected odd fish like lizard fish and trigger fish to more desirable fish like mutton snapper king mackerel blackfin tuna i catch all these types of fish regularly and on occasion you are gonna hook a big old shark the great thing about slow pitch jigging is you really never know what you're gonna get i've even landed two mutton snapper at one time on a slow pitch jig so basically what i'm trying to get at is there's more of a variety more of the unknown factor when it comes to slow pitch jigging as to what you're gonna get into the bite with if you're asking me i like traveling into the unknown and being surprised with slow pitch jigging more often than vertical chicken however if i'm out targeting something and i know what i want to go for i would choose vertical jigging alright so all this information is good and fun and we've painted a picture of the differences between vertical jigging and slow pitch jig so what we're going to do right now is we're going to take you out on the boat we're going to do a little bit of vertical jigging to get this started off with [Music] oh we're hooked up that's as easy as that [Music] first drop hooked up [Music] now typically you're going for bonitas amberjacks tuna that the leader top shot as they call it 30 foot yards of 40 pound mono here comes my fish big old amberjack look at that big old aj can get him in the boat oh that's how you do that so this is 20 pound braid on this reel i have a backer of monofilament that's 12 pound test so i put 300 yards of 20 pound braid on it my leader is 40 pound fluorocarbon and here comes here nice fresh paneer all right and so there you have it that was some good old-fashioned fish and fun with vertical jigging like i said you know nice amber jack false albacore and that's pretty much what you're going to end up with when you're doing high-speed vertical jig now i'm going to show you the difference you're going to get to see the difference in the technique hands-on we're going to take you back out on the boat we're going to do a little bit of slow pitch digging all right here we go ground contact give it a couple of pulls see if we can get in and there we go dig in and put his shoulders into it and show you who's the boss trying to go under the boat a little bit so you know this is the beauty of the parabolic bend of this rod we're at our leader and see what we got here we got a nice kingfish i'm gonna have to gap we got a nice kingfish on on on here we go look at that it don't get no better than that that kingfish right there on the slow jig we're gonna hook up right there yes he is dumping the reel right now there's a bunch of head shaking going on this is good this fish was way up in the water column here he comes let's see what we got this is the part where patients plays a factor doing some death spirals we shall see what we got and it looks like we got a black man i've got a nice black one i'm not the gaffer this is the power of slow jigging right here and there we go look at that black fin tuna right there oh there we go we got one there we go that's a good fish right there oh yeah dive to the bottom that's a strong fish take it out of that line heading right back down to the bottom put this fish in right around 300 feet of water got some shoulders behind him fine not really fighting like a bonita we'll see what we got oh yeah he's going right for the bottom this could be a shark kind of heavy like that there we go a little bit of time again [Music] you gotta break that spirit turn him on his side every inch [Applause] i see him down there again making the approach still about 30 40 feet away last thing i want to do is force them up definitely going to be one of them more epic fish like i thought it looks like a shark like a big old shark yeah it's definitely a shark look at that one and there he goes [Music] all right there you had it some more exciting and fishing fun nothing like you know solid kingfish nice blackfin tuna and like i said big sharks sometimes all right folks and so there you have it the basis of comparison vertical jigging versus slow pitch jigging and again it's not like i'm saying one is better than the other there's complete differences they're different ball games they're different worlds they may as well be fishing in different oceans but it's both jigging it's both fishing and it's meant to be exciting and fun if done properly and the commitment is made to just get out there and do it all right folks that about does it for this episode hope you had fun hope you enjoyed and i hope you learned the difference between vertical jigging and slow pitch jigging till next time south florida salt water fishing going wherever the cool wind takes us [Music]

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Length: 23min 6sec (1386 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 31 2021