Dropper loop, drop shot, sinker rig, tomato, tomato, same shit dude but yeah if you want to get “technical” you are right man, Congrats🫶🏻

Yeah for sure man, if you fish the Carolina rig style you have to hook the sardine across and nose or inline with the nose and most the time it won’t get twisted up. I’m just saying what has worked for me and how as anglers I think we are missing out on some bites by running lead instead of a jig. This is definitely not the only way to fish a sinker rig, I like your idea with the swivel though, I think that would definitely help!

@@Obseadianfishing Your idea using a jig as the weight is interesting. Have you ever had the jig end up snagging the fish in the belly? Im going to give it try. In theory it would be a better presentation as opposed to using a regular weight. As long as its not an expensive jig

@@matthill5066 I’m using a circle hook on the jig due to a lighter leader and not wanting to get it chaffed and broken off mid-fight so the snagging isn’t an issue but once you get into the yellowfin/yellow tails you could switch the hook to a traditional J hook or treble hook when the leader isn’t an issue. The bluefins WILL find any weak spot haha so I do my best to prevent it all together

I hear ya man! I call it a dropper loop bc that was slang for the sinker rig/drop shot rig on the boats I grew up fishing on, we used all 3 variations. I get your point though, and I’m not saying this is the only way to fish a sinker rig/drop shot, I’m just saying what has worked for me in the past, and how I think we as anglers are missing out on some bites by using lead instead of a jig

You can’t go wrong with a dropper loop and a colt sniper like jig might get you a bonus bite!

We gonna make it Hap’n Cap’n! Lmao

I always fish a knife jig or something like an Eddie bomb at night but during the day I would recommend downsizing your jig size and profile, a heavier flat fall is my plan to swap to in case I need more weight to get down because the colt sniper isn’t cutting it. I’m not saying the Eddie bomb wouldn’t get bit, but in my experience the tuna like something more subtle in the day time. If you catch one on it during the day let me know! And I would swap to circle hooks on the jig too because the fish will definitely chew through lighter leader used for sinker rig fishing. The circle hook will get him in the corner of the mouth and most likely your leaded won’t get chaffed up

Yeah daytime for sure and I have a variety of jig sizes to adjust for wind/drift to get in the Zone. The new tungsten jigs are definitely a solid option to add some more weight without increasing the size of the jig🤙🏼

That’s definitely a possibility but I would rather deal with a 2 fish problem than a no fish problem BUT you have to run 60 or 80lb flouro leader and know your knot strength AND set your drag correctly, you won’t break off fish as long as you have leader is twice as strong as your set drag and your knot has a high breaking strength percentage. I use a San Diego jam knot and have never had an issue with it breaking. If you have questions let me know! More than happy to break it down

I fish a 25,000 for bluefin (500yds of 80lb Power Pro) and I use a 10,000 for yellowfin/yellow tail (500yds of 50lb Power) I do NOT recommend hooking a cow on 50lb braid lol

You can, this year I am running a plastic twitch tail sardine on top of my knife jig, the whole rig is about 5 feet long with 200lb Flourocarbon, I have a ringed Mutu circle hook about 1/2 way down and my knife jig connection below that. But then during the day I down size to a smaller jig and live sardine like in this video. Hope that helps! I will be doing a video on the knife jig set up as soon as I catch a fish on it!😂

Thank you for the great idea, what size saragosa will hold 500 yards of 65 or 80 thank you an advance.

@@Ron-ev2tk I use a 25,000 Saragosa with 80lb Power Pro, and my 20,000 Saragosa has 65lb braid. Each reel holds 500yds. And then I run a 10,000 Saragosa with 50lb braid but I try not to hook bluefins on that rod!😂 that’s my yellowfin/yellowtail rod

@Obseadianfishing thank you for the response ,I hook on your videos they're very informative, thanks again.