Why Offshore Jigs Are Changing the Way We Fish
If you've spent any time on a boat lately, you probably know that offshore jigs have completely flipped the script on how we target deep-sea predators. It wasn't that long ago that "fishing offshore" basically meant trolling big plastic skirts at eight knots or dropping a massive chunk of dead bait to the bottom and hoping a grouper found it before the triggerfish picked it clean. Those methods still work, sure, but there's something about the active, tactile nature of jigging that just gets the blood pumping in a way that sitting in a fighting chair never will. ...