Had Paul and Adam Dubriske on The Barge today, owners of the G2Jigger company. Main purpose of the trip was to demo the Jigger Balls to Russ Johnson and myself.

Early bite was good, best fish of the day were 7.4 Laker (a rareity for Squam), 4lb Salmon, 4lb Bow and a few smaller fish, but all easy keepers except one small Bow.

Fish were deep, 34 to 42 feet, all but one were caught on flies tied by Paul Dubriski.

The Jigger Balls worked the Balls (excuse the pun) excellent tool for jigging at any depth with no lead core. I bought 3 of them (of course I needed a spare,lol) and Russ Johnson bought two. I'm sure they will be very popular in this area once a few more are used here.

Here's the deal, buy one for 139.00 includes 6 of Paul's flys (excellent flies) plus shipping. Or you can drive to Keene and he will sell you one for 100.00 with no flies. I talked him into leaving a few with me and Russ and we can sell them for him at the 100.00 (no flies, no shipping) Or you can order them from his web site www.Cut2spec.com, while there check out his flies, the Ten Ten caught a few nice ones today as well as some of his others.

The G2Jigger Ball is very well enginereed and constructed, I will be running 2 on my boat the rest of the year.

This was the best day we have had on Squam in weeks,
I credit the G2Jigger and Pauls flies.

By the way, Paul only had 1 Jigger Ball left in his truck after Russ and I bought ours, so I have only one left to sell and I'm positive W-Fat will that one tomorrow when he fishes on the Barge. But Paul is going to send more up to Russ and me.

Sorry not much detail on the days catch but it was a little hectic for a while and I didn't know the names of his flies, oh BTW the single fish caught on a spoon was on a home taped BB Gun, Pink and Silver.

Tomorrow we will run Jim's Rod Pumper and see how it does, but we know that is a proven tool.

Big John

Good report!! VERY interesting.

Salty

How much do they weigh? What was the blow back like? Looks like if the had some flash on the prop blades you could have an attractor and a jigger.

Interested to see how these hold up over some time. It would appear these are in the hands of someone that will put them to the test and log some hrs on them. Let us know how they hold up, if you don't mind.

Sure would hate to lose on of those to the l;ake bottom too. Would be similar to losing a shark weight price wise. Ouch!

Spike

They are 10 pounds, very little blow back believe it or not.

I'll report more as we get more experienced with them.

I like them.

Big John

Hey John - I was considering trying one of these but the price scared me off.

Do you think you can use these with hardware also or is the a "fly only" rig?

Does your DR rod "load" with this unit or just sit straight out?

Can you run fly rods off this? I know "fly rods on a downrigger???"....just thinking of how I would use this.


...now the "Chamerlain" guys need to come up with a release for this unit

You can fish anything you want off them, we used spoons too, you don't load your rod down with these, you need some slack in the llne for best results, your stacked line above the ball can be cranked down however.

Did not do so well 2nd day out (on my own), got frustrated during a good bite, tried too many new things all at once, went back to what I was comfortable with. But I am convinced of their value and will use then again tomorrow.

Big John

This sounds very similar to a unit that came out about 15 yrs ago maybe 20 I think it was called a Downjigger. Had a prop on the front end and like a parachute on the back end.The prop would wind in the release and then the parachute would deploy the release.

Same person made that one, he's got it pretty **** well perfected now. I saw some of the early prototypes when we (Russ Johnson and I) visited his shop.

Big John

does it work at at slow and fast speeds, that was the complaint i had with my old plastic fish downjigger, at low speeds it would just lock up. would like to get one of these.

Yes it works at both slow and fast speeds.