Beautiful Porkchops!

Kil-

Very nice

. I was curious, did you squid the jig, or bounce it?
Whichever it is, looks like a great way to cull through the smaller ones and get real oven-stuffers

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Kilsong very nice tip,I like to fish for Porgy's using small Bucktails just like a Fluke rigs whit small strip of squids,they even hit it whit spearing and must of them are Humpback.....Fredd

 

yea kil, those are real jumbos. did you catch any fluke mixed in?? i hear that when fishing for the big porgies up north you can catch some really big fluke at the same grounds.

 

nice porgies....of course they hit jigs, they hit everything!!!

That saltiga never leaves your side does it?????

This post edited by bretabaker 08:19 AM 05/29/2008

 

A 1oz teardrop diamond jig works great for the scup. Add a 3" gulp twister tail 12" above the jig. caught many scup, seabass and tog with that rig up in buzzards.....

 

sabiki rig ?

has anyone ever tried using a couple of hooks ffrom a sabiki rig on light tackle. I never knew that people jigged for porgys

 

I think the only reason they hit the jigs is becasue of the squid/bait attached to the hook. I have caught them frm shore with a SAbiki with no bait, but it didn't work on a party boat. Niether did plain jigs or bucktails. AS soon as bait went on the hook, tehy bit.

 

Caught some nice size Porgy's on 1/2 ounce bucktails sweetened with squid meant for fluke last year.....gotta be the squid......

 

Billy40 wrote:
I think the only reason they hit the jigs is becasue of the squid/bait attached to the hook. I have caught them frm shore with a SAbiki with no bait, but it didn't work on a party boat. Niether did plain jigs or bucktails. AS soon as bait went on the hook, tehy bit.

I agree with Billy on this one. No Bait=no scup.

 

Billy/Mike, Probably you are right. The diamond jig was intended for seabass. But I was surprised big porgy took big hook of the diamond jig even I had a small baited hook above the jig.

We used a sabiki rig to catch bait fish in Fl and caught many surthern porgies on the rig, but I didn't have success with scup on sabiki rigs.

 

okay I guess i ll scrap that idea.. Thanks

 

I've caught them on unsweetened A47s and also on jigged plain gold hooks. Used to catch sea bass and porgies on masking tape too. Only works if they are thick which doesn't happen very often down this way anymore.

 

I fish for porgies from shore almost every day in summer. From my experiences, porgy most certainly do take jigs. In fact, from the certain area I fish, they outproduce bait. The reason isn't much in the motion though as it is in the color. Of the jigs that I have used, 1/4 oz neon yellow twister tail jig heads work well since they are so vibrant. Either with a soft plastic or tied as a bucktail, they always get hits. I noticed that porgy liked biting bright colors years ago, when I was casting a bright jig head with soft plastic for fluke, and I started hooking into porgy. I used this to my advantage by making a rig that would get the best of both the bait and jig worlds of porgy fishing. I use a 1 oz weight, followed by 2ft of mono, and then a 1/4 oz jig head. I fish this rig with what ever shellfish I can find on the beach. I fish it by casting it out, and taking short, very slow sweeps of the rod tip, followed by a long pause. If done correctly, I get fish every cast. I have found only one flaw with this technique; it doesn't work everywhere. I have used the bright jig head idea out in deeper waters fishing from a boat, but in some cases, bait most certainly outproduces. I have not a clue why it is that some places the porgy will hit the jig head with bait, and others they won't even look at it. But as far as I know, there are spots where jigs heads are king!

So take this post with a grain of salt, because the technique doesn't work "everywhere." But whenever the bite is slow, it might just be worth it to throw on a bright color and see if they take it.

1/4 oz as bucktail

1/4 oz plain for use with bait (shellfish, squid, leftovers, lol,

, etc.)

 

masking tape?? how so?

 

NanbayFluker wrote:
I have found only one flaw with this technique; it doesn't work everywhere.

That is wierd. Notice in my post I have caught Porgies from shore (short) on teh Sabiki, and I have tried the same sabiki on a boat when others were using & catching with bait, to the result of zero fish or hits. I do not like Porgy fishing, so I would try anythign except clams and standard rigs, hoping to catch a Fluke, or even better yet: the almighty Sea Robin, lol.

 

Wrap some masking tape around the shank of your bait hook, leaving a tag end, also just put the hook thru the strip. Used to do things like that when patrons said they weren't catching fish because the bait was bad or it was magically falling off the hook. Then again that was back when it wasn't too hard to get 50 keeper sea bass in the late spring.

 

my grandma caught a 18 inch porgy on a buck tail she said it was a better than any fight she ever had. the thing that killed us was we had to let it go it was before the season was open. her facial expressions was one of the funniest things I've ever experienced on any fishing trip.

 

fishingace5 wrote:
my grandma caught a 18 inch porgy on a buck tail .

My biggest Porgy was on teh NAncy Ann out of Orient whileFluking, out of season. 21", I could barely turn the handle on my Calcutta 251. REsleased it, it floated and a HUGE Osprey or something came and scooped it up.

 

Yo Zuri Jig

Yo Zuri used to make (or may still make) a jig that may have been for fresh water. It Sort of looked like a rapala ice fishing jig that you would tie at the top of the back and have the jig sit horizontal. I take the jig and drop in off my dock late in the season when the snappers are chasing spearing and when it hits the bottom....BAM! consistent porgies on the jig, no bait at all. Dont know that you can get it to the bottom with no weight from a boat though...

 

sabiki rig for porgy

I tried the sabiki rig last weekend in Hyannis. You need to heavy line sabiki (my sabiki came with 6 hooks on 30 lb mono) and I cut it into two rigs with 3 hooks each. I put a 4 oz diamond jig at bottom. No porgy hit the rig until I sweetened the 3 hooks with small squid strips. I got porgy either jig the rig back or just dead-stick in rod holder. I even got a triple header of porgy. Caught one seabass on sabiki too.