For grouper bounce them off the bottom, and use stinger on the swivel so the jig doesn't act like a leverage piece and cause the fish to come unhooked.

 

Ive seen DJ rigged many ways all of them effective, but just to put out there the way they were originally designed to be rigged.

The hook actually goes on the swivel the line is attached to the ring opposite the swivel (the plain eye) and not the other way around.

I like to rig mine the traditional way with the hook on the bottom of the jig attached to the swivel. I think the single hook on the bottom gives it a better action and actually serves a dual purpose of looking like a jointed tail to the jig.

It is not the only way to fish it by all means.

One thing you MUST always look out for are the eyes of the jig. if they are even slightly cantered off in one direction you need to straighten them out so they are straight. This is one of the reasons I like the CM220 so much, as there is no need to check for that.

 

well i bought mine from peacetoken.com. Quality ive heard. Do you yoyo or cast them away from the boat and cruise them back off the bottom?Sorry i usually stick to the verticle technique but im game to learn.

 

i agree with peter. theres lots of ways to rig them but most times i have a single hook on the bottom. one time i do like assist hooks though is for coral bottoms where the hook can get hung up a lot.

its a pretty simple lure that can be worked several ways. i wouldnt over think it.

cast and jig back, straight up and down slow jigging, bouncing on bottom, etc. you can speed jig the lure but it works better using an assist hook. the tail hook tends to snag the leader when speed jigging with a tail hook.

 

When rigging a CM220, do you tie directly to the solid ring and attach an assist hook? I was thinking about adding a split ring and solid ring like you would on a regular jig.

 

I tie my leader to a swivel, then loop the assist hook to the bottom ring of the swivel. (my favorite is the Sampo 150lb Ball Bearing).

The swivel goes to a split ring and the split ring to my jig of choice.

 

When rigging a CM220, do you tie directly to the solid ring and attach an assist hook? I was thinking about adding a split ring and solid ring like you would on a regular jig.

All depends. if im not planning on changing jigs frequently or there are a ton lot of kingfish, barracuda, wahoo, etc around - i wont bother with a swivel and split ring since you'll just end up losing a bit more terminal tackle. so in this case i'll tie direct to the jig. otherwise, i'll do the standard swivel/split ring combo. either assist hook or fixed bottom hook.

yesterday i used a swivel/split ring combo since i wasn't worried about getting many biteoffs.

 

how about the rod....i was thinking calstar 700h or xh with maybe a baja special.what do you think?

 

You can do different ways of hook riggings with diamond jigs.
When tuna jigging, I attach as assist hook to the tail of the jig.
You can do traditional 'up and down' jigging, West Coast 'yo-yo' jigging as well as Janaese style jerk/crank jigging with them.

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Some of my favs to rig jigs..a little bling never hurt no one.

astro..

 

Some of my favs to rig jigs..a little bling never hurt no one.

astro..
Tuna fishermen seldom use teasered hook from the past experiences. I am still wondering why teasered hooks don't work as well as bare hooks.
But they are very effective for bottom dwellers.

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These jigs are about 10yrs old and when I was on the Bucaneer many moons ago we slayed the blackfin using this config. The glow in the dark squid performed outstanding, but then again that was just one trip.

astro..

 

These jigs are about 10yrs old and when I was on the Bucaneer many moons ago we slayed the blackfin using this config. The glow in the dark squid performed outstanding, but then again that was just one trip.

astro..
Yes, glow jigs work great for blackfin as well as teaserd hooks.
But you need to avoid blackfin bites to get yellowfin.
So I avoid glow jigs or shiny jigs to fish yellowfin among many blackfin.

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Well said Mr. Ksong, as your input is always well taken and respected here. I just remembered that these jigs were among my first to the introduction in tuna fishing and I was using a 9500 Penn and a Penn Slammer at the time, boy! have I evolved since then and my collection has really expanded as well. To bad my banking account hasn't..

astro..

 

astro,
I said I am wondering why teared hooks don't work for tuna.
There are many thins we believed them right proved wrong.
In fact, I plan to test some teasered hooks for tuna as we found soft plastic lures like RonZ worked great for bluefin in Cape Cod.
I don't take anything as granted as far as fishing is concerned.

See how I rig jigs for tuna. Everyone attach assist hooks at the head of a jig, but I prefer to attach at the bottom of a short jigs, especially for tuna.
And it works. It was funny that I was the only guy who used an assist hook at the tail of Labo Jig on yesterday's bluefijn jigging trip, but they switchd hook position after I hooked up a nice bluefin first.

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Some of my favs to rig jigs..a little bling never hurt no one.

astro..
If you look back on the subject of bead jigs you will see that the bead jigs only have about a 1/2 in of thread on the eyelet. i would not trust a bottom hook on that eye. better use an assist on the top or chance having the eyelet pull out.

 

Ahh yes...very interesting and I'm sure others who view this post will also think so and definitely benefit from ur pic, thanks for sharing Mr. Ksong. Tight lines my friend..

astro..