Hey folks, Captain Dave here in the Wolf Den. I'm doing this video because of the fact that I had a pure irritation. I watch a lot of YouTube. The funny thing is, I'm watching YouTube and you know how the different videos pop up along the sides. And for some reason, I don't know if I was looking at jigs or something like that. A whole bunch of videos pop up along the sides, so I start watching them. And I realize there is a huge difference between the Saltwater Bass Fisherman. That's what I call saltwater bass fisherman. And me, I just don't get it. What I'm talking about here is, you know, when I buy jigs, I'm buying jigs because most of the time at the jetties, we burn them like cordwood. I mean, we just burn right through them. Here is a new pile of jigs that I use. They got that gold Eagle Claw hook. They're half ounce round ball heads. And we put shrimp on them. Now I've got packs. These are supposedly half ounce. I never have put them on a little digital scale or anything. I got bags of 3-8s. I got bags of quarters. According to the current, you may have seen a video I did about a week or so ago, where we dropped anchor one time all day. Seven eighths of the day. We did nothing but use this jig. Half ounce with the gold hook. And here I am. I'm watching these guys talking about jigs. The Saltwater Bass Fisherman is what I refer to. And they're talking about using jigs and showing the hooks. And I swear to God, they're using which I don't even own in here or I would show you. This is one by jig box that right here. But they're using a maybe 3-8s ounce or half ounce or quarter ounce or whatever jig. And it's got a hook on it like this big old Spro 2-Ozzer has. But it's just a little ball head jig. And it's got this ginormous heavy, oh my God heavy hook. Which this thing is made for big fish off shore even. The Spro jig. And it's got this giant hook. Now maybe in the camera right here, you can't actually see the difference. But I'm holding it up right there so you can kind of. They're using jigs like this. I mean still all super fancy painted and all this with hooks. They're using a jig like this with hooks like that. I don't get it. They didn't talk about the wire diameter. You don't need that. I don't know, that's that bass fishing mentality again. I mean what was it just two weeks ago? We had probably a close to a hundred pound tarpon on that for two hours. I had a video of the guy sitting on the bow of the boat while we were fighting the thing. On that same exact thing with a shrimp on it. You want more proof? Go to addictive fishing and look at Blair Wiggins channel on YouTube. Or if you remember watching the show him out fishing with Mark Nichols of DOA lures. Mark Nichols makes the DOA shrimp and the little lore called the terror eyes. Right? And terror eyes, that little lore, that little soft plastic lorry but that big. And it's got like a lead head with a soft plastic body over it. And it's got that hook. And they're sitting in the keys. And they got tarpon on. Runnin' them around the bridge pileings. With that hook, you don't need all, I don't just, you don't need these gigantic hooks. I went to many a seminar years ago. There's guys talking about the same thing that I saw on these YouTube video. Jigsition. Soft plastic, just jigs in general. They're doing the same thing. They're holding up these lead head jigs that might look like that. Right? I mean kind of fancy with the eyes on them and everything. But these jigs have a hook on them like that. You can't, I'm sure you probably can't see the blier diameter of this thing. But that right there will catch you know a 20 pound grouper. Let alone a damn trout. I've sat through these seminars before and I've seen all this and I'm sittin' in the back going, what the hell? Hey, if you've been on my boat, you know, there's my favorite little hook right there that Monsuo sickle-bammed. I think this is a maybe a two-odd hook. 25, 30 pound redfish on that. So why the hell when I'm jig fishing do I need to hook any bigger? This hook is bigger. There ain't nothin' I can do about it. That's the hook it comes with. But I'm bottom fishin' with a piece of croaker or something with that hook. And then put it in a shrimp on this or even a soft plastic. You know back in the day and I'll maybe I'll put a link below if I can find it of the video where me and a friend of mine are out just goofin' around. We're at the jetties. This is before braided line before super braided. And I think we're fishin' 10 pound mono or 8 pound mono. Catching one oversized redfish after another on light wire jickeds. Light wire. I would assume that it would be the same exact jickeds you'd be maybe bass fishing with in a pond, fishing for crappies or something like that. And I mean we're catching the hell out of fish and we don't have no big ass hook like that. You don't need it. What the hell? Oh my god. All you're doin' is spending more money. But the point I'm trying to make here is you don't need that hook. I don't know why anybody needs something with a hook on it like that. I mean not when I'm in the St. John's River or the Mayport jetties. And that right there is catching everything. When I was talkin' about one before there was even braided line, you know yes with braided line, I stepped up, I stepped up my diameter of wire on my jickeds. Okay now that's a pretty stout hook right there on that little sort of bullet head. And I tend to not use it. That's a pretty stout hook. Very large kind of hook. People talk about presentation. Presentation, presentation, presentation. Yeah presentation. Oh how hard the rod or how heavy the rod has to be just set to hook. I don't know. That's that bass fishing thing again. I'll use what I'm throwing a jig. I'll use one of two rods. I'll use a really soft rod because I got mono on it. And I'll use a little heavier rod because I got braid on it. I think what it boils down to. If you are up in the river and you're up in the creeks and you're up there doing this and your tournament fish in and all this stuff, you are. You're a saltwater bass fisherman type. If you're sittin' in a 26 foot boat in four foot seas at the end of the South Jenny in February. And you're catching trout one after another on them right there in redfish on a soft plastic even on that little jig head on this little jig head. It's obvious you're not you're not pretending to be a bass fisherman. That's all I'm trying to say is that holds a tarp. So do you need one of the hook like that when you're catching a trout or redfish or a flounder? Get out of here. So redfish, you know guy asked me the other day what's so great about redfish redfish redfish redfish. I said in the Teddy trees I don't know because I just assume catch trout. I just assume put their asses in the box, flam and have him hit the damn oil and black iron skillet when they're throwing around in some satirians. So I mean that's just me. I catch trout because I eat trout. But remember this too. That has got numerous 25 pound redfish, 30 pound redfish. That hook right there. So I'll leave that with you when it comes to jigs. Watch your hook side. Especially if you're you know your fish and relatively light tackle like you're supposed to maybe. I don't know if you call what I fish light. You know I'm fishing the ugly stick. Ugly stick tiger light rods which are a jigging type rod with a baitcaster with 30 maybe 50 pound braid on it. And then from the braid I'll make a probably about six foot leader of like just 20 pound mono because I want it to be sacrificial just like when we're float rig fishing. You get stuck in the bottom I want to be able to go. I want to get rid of that jig. Bring it back tie on another. It's all about speed too. I see some of the jigs. I mean go to Walmart and they got jigs in there that are painted and everything. They got these enormous hooks on them. And I can take that same son of a bitch out there and we'd be catching 150 pound shark on it. Same exact jigging. So I don't get it. What really puts it if you don't believe me. We got a video. Like I said just what two weeks ago. Yeah. Big old tarp it on. He finally broke his socks and the jetty rocks. But he was on this. There was on this no problem. Bag up a whole bunch of these new gold hook. Half answers at least that's what the packet says because that's all I need to catch a fish in the jetties. The old saying after jetties for me if you ain't bumping a rock and if you ain't touching the bottom you'll never catch a fish. All right. Thanks for watching. you