itchyant

Stick with the 4000. You will stick be able to get close to 300m of 30lb braid on it, which is fine for the light jigging depths and weights plus it's still light enough for plastic work.

After only a couple of attempts, I've caught the jigging craze (I'm slow, I know), and I've set myself up with a heavier jigging rod (50lb line), but most of my fishing is from a kayak, so generally I'll be in water up 40m deep. Coz of this, I've been looking about for a light jigging rod - and I need some advice from those expert jiggers out there! I'm looking for a rod capable of using jigs up to about 120g, but generally around 80g, as mentioned before in depths of around 30 to 40m. I'll be matching up to 4000 size diawa Tierra, using probably 20lb braid. After looking about on the net, I've seen some specialist jigging rods rated at 1-3PE, but they appear hard to get in Oz, and very expensive. What would be the difference between one of these, and say a fast actioned 6'6" graphite rod rated 10-17lb? Are the actions different? Would the spinning rod still be suitable (they are certainly cheaper - looking at a Diawa Saltwater). Cheers, itchy

Excellent topic wrasseman, I hope to see some more replies. I do have a small trout kit, only I don't really get to use it much. My bream kit gets quite a bit of use though, so I'll detail it. I use the same small tacklebox as yourself, as alot of my breaming is either shorebased or out of a little bass kayak. The kit includes: Braid scissors Berkeley lip grippers (includes tape) Gerber multi tool Nitlon leader (usually 4lb and 8lb, although this varies sometimes on where I'm fishing) 6'6" rob and 1500 reel with 4lb fireline Hat & sunnies JIGS: Nitro jigheads in 1/32, 1/24 & 1/16 size 2 (usually about 6 to 8 of each) Squidgy resin finesse heads and some offset worm hooks for unweighted fishing (a few of each) SPs: 3" bass minnows - smelt & pumpkinseed 6" gulp sandworms - any colour 65mm squidgy wrigglers in bloodworm and avocado Squidgy bug in casper HBs: 2x SX40 1x sneaky scorpion 2x river2sea bobblepop (smallest size) 2x river2sea babyvibes 1x deep crawdad (translucent pink) If I'm in the kayak, I do take a few more packets of SPs for variety, however the ones I have listed are the essentials.

Great effort! What was your rod / reel setup?