MSYellowfin

Woke up Monday morning for work and checked the weather which had changed overnight, so took a slight detour and headed to OB to take my niece and nephew and their spouses fishing for the day. Day started out cold with so so seas. Hit a spot about 23 miles out and caught a little bit of everything; grouper, snapper, undersize AJs, redfish etc? We fished with speed jigs and the Shimano Lucanus jigs and the action was almost non stop. Around noon we ran to the Marathon Reef to pick up some keeper AJs. Caught lots of good size AJs and kept three for fish locker. Good time was had by all. Met another fourum member ?Gaffshot? who was out on his trip Hydro Sport 33.

Here are a few misc pics from the day.

First drop produced this red for my niece.







Crystal hooked up





Nephew and a small grouper





Niece?s husband with a endangered ARS



Niece?s favorite spot!







Keeper AJ





One of dozens of throwback AJs

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2010 36 Yellowfin "Forgiven"
2010 24 Hurricane Deck Boat
2001 Contender 25 (sold)

Sea That

sounds like good times. Those AJs are everywhere this year.

AaronBarnes

:clap good job...

Donzi32

I think I passed you just North of the bridge. We were coming in, while you were going out. We pulled for some reds on beach, then hit few public numbers for fun. Little sloppy on ride back in.

dailysaw

is that a lucanus jig?



gotta love the bend in that rod!!

lobsterman

Nope thats not called high stickin.

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Hey MSYellow-

How did you fish the Lucanus Jig? I've not done very well with mine.

MSYellowfin

I hate fishing with dead cut bait due to the mess and everyone always saying "I think they got my bait" so I started using the Lucanus type jigs last year and they work great!! The one in the pic is Braid's version and I ususally buy the Chinese $3.99 knock offs from Ebasicpower.com Regardless I fish them exactly like cut bait on a hook, drop to bottome wind up a few cranks and do nothing! Great lures for beginners as your bait cant get stolen and no need to set the hook. They catch everything too! This past trip we started with both the butterly and the lucanus type and eventually most all were using the butterfly but the trip before we caught most on the lucanus type. Definitely well worth putting in your tackle box.



As to the high sticking, I try to tell them proper technique but this was her first offshore trip ever so I was happy the rod and reel just stayed in the boat! The braid setup with the 6/1 retrieve ratio is more of a lift and wind rather than winch in.



Hope this helps.



MSyellowfin

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2008 54C Viking "Jacquelyn"
2010 36 Yellowfin "Forgiven"
2010 24 Hurricane Deck Boat
2001 Contender 25 (sold)

TURTLE

I have not used mine yet and would like to know the same thing.I thought it looked like a killer so I bought a few but have not had a chance to try them yet.Do you have a certain kind of retreive or speed different then a butterfly?

MSYellowfin

With the lucanus type I don't do anything! maybe wave them around, but basically just let them hover off the bottom, now the speed jigs or Butterfly jigs are all about fast, fast retrieve. My niece would be jigging the butterfly jig for 5 min with no luck, I would take it and speed jig it, and instant hook up. So lucanus, slow no jigging, Butterfly the faster the better



cool jig



look in the mouth



look again



another one on the lucanus

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MSyellowfin
2008 54C Viking "Jacquelyn"
2010 36 Yellowfin "Forgiven"
2010 24 Hurricane Deck Boat
2001 Contender 25 (sold)