Jigging for KING SALMON!! Early Lake Michigan Kings (Setup & Tips)

Big pod, big pod. Might want to lift anchor, I'm not joking bro. Yo what's going on guys, really quickly I just want to show you the setup that we're running out here and then after that I'm going to give you a couple tips that we're finding to help us out here on the lake. First things first, I've got a high capacity reel. I'm running a Strattec. It is a 4000 series so has a lot of line capacity and for our rod I have a Fenwick HMX. It is a 12 to 25 pound 8.6 medium heavy. You really want to make sure that you have a fast tip on your rod. For our mainline I'm just running 30 pound Power Pro right here and I am tying a, I think it's an Albright knot, to a 16 pound fluorocarbon leader that is about, I don't know, I'd say about four and a half, five feet long right down to a P-line jigging spoon. Some people like running monofilament for their leaders. I've been trying it out. Some of the lighter monos have the same line diameter as some of the higher pound test fluorocarbons. For example, 12 pound monofilament is about the equivalent of 16 pound fluoro. I've tried running it before. The mono is nice because you get a little bit of stretch in your leader for like random runs and hard head shakes but I am finding that I am getting more on the fluorocarbon for sure. You really can't go wrong with this. I wouldn't go over about a 10 foot rod but it's really important that you guys have a fast tip and a lot of line capacity. Hey, all right, all right, that's it. I love it. That has to be some form of good luck. I don't, I've never had a deer in the wild just come up in the lake my hands before but I gave it a little piece of a pickle and I won him over so hopefully the deer are biting, the fish are biting so. Oh there's one. I was sleeping dude. I was about to fall asleep. We got the net, don't worry. I brought it this time. It's a decent one. It's got a lamprey on it I think. It does. Maybe. I don't know, that'd be pretty cool. Oh yeah, look at the way he's flying. It's chrome. Leader, leader, leader. Oh my god. We're marking some of the strands down there. You don't like that net. Dude, I hate that. Handle hook just popped out. Nice man, just finally got a solid fish in the boat. Still pretty early in the morning here. Nice wild fish. Tall dorsal fin. Nice adipose. Took the black luna jigspoon. They get a little bigger than this that's for sure but I can't complain. We got a fresh fish and great fight and I'm sure it's going to release really well here. All those tail pops. Down straight vertical baby. Let's go. Have you ever talked before this? There's one. Oh yeah, it hooked right. Can't tell if it feels big yet. It's a lot of head shakes dude. What is this? This, I don't, I don't even know if it's a salmon dude. Oh yeah. Yeah. Look, look at dude, look at that graph dude. Get it, get a shot of the graph on my camera. That fish came up. You can see him chase it. I absolutely smoked it and we're tight. How's it feel man? Yeah. I got both out. Dude, we might want to lift anchor. I'm not joking bro. I'm gonna try. No. Yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Really good fish dude. Yes, that's the one. That's the one. Oh okay. I saw the slip off. Freaking smacked it. Oh yeah. Freaking brute right there man. Nice hand. Dude. All right. There's a couple main little tips I want to point out to you guys. Some things that we've been finding helpful. First things first, dead sticking. I'm not really sure what it is but it seems like when we're really freaking popping our jigs up, it seems to be scaring away a lot of fish but we've noticed when we leave our lines laying out of the side of the boat that it's actually bringing some fish in and if you can lure some fish in and you have a graph and you can visibly see that there are fish coming in towards their lure, you should be able to mark your lure on a fish finder like this. If you see fish coming up to it, kind of start baby tapping it, kind of make it seem like it's inching away. We found that we've been getting some hookups like that. Second thing for us, any spoons underneath a two ounce jigging spoon, we just are not getting the action out of it and we are definitely not getting hookups on one ounce, half ounce, stuff like that. Might work in some shallower water but these two ounce jigging spoons, I'm using these P-Lines right here. They've by far been our best ticket and then what was the last thing we were going to talk about? We talked about the dead sticking, we talked about fluoro, we talked about, oh yes, line sensitivity. So one of the good things about running braid, you can run mono doing this and it's nice because that stretch but one of the nice things about braid is that it does not have a lot of stretch. You're very sensitive so if you feel any bites, especially jigging, you're going to feel the most faint bites. What we're finding is when we're jigging, when you're popping it up, don't let your line go slack and pull your lure down to the bottom. You really want to make sure that you have some sort of sensitivity with your rod tip. Keeping tension with your leader so then you can detect the bites because I'd say about 90 percent of the bites that we are getting are on the fall when our spoon is fluttering down. That's about 90 percent of the time when your fish are going to hit. So if you have some sort of tension on your way down but you want to have it taught so then you can feel any sort of slack in your line, any sort of ticks, set the hook and reel in on that. So as far as tips, that's what I give you guys. I hope that helped you guys out. You got to get a mag. Dude, you got fish all over you. Dude, yeah, I just think we're on a pot of fish. You got one? You got one? Here, try. I'm going to double. I'm going to double. I'm going to double. Let's go home. Oh, that's a nice one. Turner. Oh, you got her all three. You're good. Let's go. That's a straight grommer. Push down on her tail and lift up. Yep. Nice. Where's the grass thing on the boat? Like back there? Yeah, the columns in the back. Dude, parking that ship, dude. I could have never. There you go. Yeah, I'm back. Reel down, reel down, reel down, reel down, reel down, reel down, reel down. No, you got him. You got him. Here you go. Down to the right, down to the right, down to the right. Here, run down here. Let's go. I got him this time. Let's go. How's it look? Just so I can see. It looks funny. Yeah, that's good. That's good. You're good. Don't touch it. Run back here. Run back here. Dude, he's getting a freaking torch right now. Hold on. Take it, take it, take it, take it. All right. First time on the jig and spoon here for Mr. Brock here. Brock, how old are you? 11. 11 years old, dude. And he's cracking them. He's the first mate for a charter boat. 11 years old, man. He's next up, baby. Let's go, baby. Get down, Brock. I'll get a picture with you and I. Mr. Brock, man. Let's go, dude. Let's go, Brock. That is sick, all by himself, man. Got to send it to Hunter, too. Your first jigging king. How was it, man? Awesome. Everything you hoped and dreamed of? You got to brag to Hunter because it's on his setup. Yeah, Hunter. You got it on Hunter's setup. You got 4% left, dude. Dude, this place is a gem. How'd the trip go, Owen? Dude, tiring, but we bopped them, man. Kind of. I mean, dude, like, it was give or take. Sometimes it was baller. Oh, we had to work for our fish, dude. 100% work for fish. We got fresh fish. We got pretty big fish. We had really hot, short bite windows. We had absolute, like, no hooking fish for many, many hours straight, and we lost our minds a little bit, but we got a two-hour drive home with some ice cream. So, hope you guys enjoyed the video. Be sure to check out Owen's channel if you guys haven't checked him out before. 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