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Awesome information. glad you explained why you might use this versus a popping cork setup. Plus this gives me extra satisfaction when my wife's eye twitches by taking things from the kitchen to use for fishing. (knives, can openers, cutting board, and now her lemon bottle! lol.)
Nice videos! Keep up the good work. I have never used a lemon rig and heard that you can shorten or lengthen the depth by pushing or pulling the line in and out of the bottle and using tightening the cap to keep it in place.
Great video Jeff. Another way you could accomplish the same result is with a slip bobber setup. Basically you have a bobber stop on your line that you can move up and down. This allows your bobber to slide down to your bait for easy casting. Once the bait hits the water it sinks to the set depth. It's a little difficult to describe but a quick search will return some videos. Love the content, keep it coming.
@@andrewrollins4898 Another commenter made the interesting assertion that the lemon rig has more sensitivity b/c of the way the line is directly connected to your hook. I imagine that could make a difference with light biters like sheepshead that aren't usually going to pull your float underwater.
@@andrewrollins4898 with a slip float, the fish has to pull the float under before youll actually feel a hit. With lemon rig, presumably youd feel the hit right away. By dropper rig i presume you mean a 3 way/paternoster rig? Thatll work of course, but that kind of defeats the purpose of being snagfree. Even if i use rounded bank sinkers, ill get caught on the rocks every 4-5 casts fishing that way. Same goes for fishfinder rigs. Great in the surf or off a pier but not ideal for jetty. Lead is expensive man.
@@andrewrollins4898 oh, you mean a dropshot rig. Im familiar with that. I call it a lazy mans 3 way rig lol. The same rigs have different names in different applications, like fishfinder rig vs carolina rig. As for floats, you can watch them but with any amount of swell its gonna be hard to tell, especially since sheepshead bite so lightly. That being said, if you fish it active like a popping cork youll have better sensitivity.
@@andrewrollins4898 im heading to the gulf coast to jetty fish this summer, definitely considering giving the ol 3 way another shot if i can get my hands on cheap leads 😂. If not itll be jerkbaits, doa shrimp, and swimjigs for the trip. I dont mind dropping money on terminal tackle but the boss does
It's been a minute bro! Glad to have you back. Thanks for making this video. In the future could you make a "Tying on Spoons and application" video? I always see you and Cooper using them.
Thanks for this video. It is great when you show how it is done and why. Just got into fishing and videos like this help a lot. Saw your video with thresher using this and that is how I got here. Also is it allowed to clean fish on the beach or jetties before taking home? Thanks.
So I just had an idea to build something like this and Googled it and there it was that's pretty badass. My question is what about heavy current like on the bridges period when I have to use a split shot to keep my bait down? Usually in heavy current they usually comes to the top
Hey thanks, I'm in The Bahamas and will try your lemon rig this morning from the rocks (26.5.18) I will vlog it and update ya later! Very informative vid!
Hey Jeff. First things first. I too contribute my hard earned dollars at Arby's. Thanks for the assembly steps. I dont think there is a video on how to assemble this rig. The Bait Bucket has a short video on this rig but it's to let the fishing community aware they sell the rig.
Hiya from the tiny island of Malta. Interesting setup. Been hearing you mention this lemon rig for a while now. Gonna set this up and try it out compare it to the running float setup which I normally use.
Jeff, met you guys out a port A jetties this past weekend, I told you guys about the jack I hooked out market 37, the guy with the saragosa and st croix rod....I use a slip bobber rig with live mullet, can set any depth....question is; you think the lemon rig is a quicker set than slip bobber?
Awesome bro! I’m in Corpus and usually only kayak flats but with this I might try jetties. 8 feet is all I need? I thought it was really deep there. Thnx for this great tip.
So the first time I saw this rig was on the Texas city dike. This was more than three years ago. This guy who I think was from Texas city, shows up when we had been there for about two hours and immediately started tearing it up. He caught a flounder that was at least two feet long. He and his wife caught more fish using this rig with about five foot leads in an hour than my buddy and I caught all day.
I appreciate the info. I always wanted to try fishing this way, you explained it real well, hope to get down to corpus in a week or so, I will watch any tutorial video you want to put out I'm not the dumbest fisherman but sure ain't the smartest either. lol
In the 2nd part of video Jeff will show you that at the Jettie when there is currant you can walk along with the Lrig so you don"t have to cast a bunch and chunck your bait off??????
My last trip to our jetties, I lost so much tackle, I think my bait shop is going to upgrade their kids college to ivy league. I'm definitely trying the lemon rig next time I fish the rocks.
Jeff, just discovered your channel, but noticed you haven't posted in TWO YEARS!! I fish the Port A area and used to live on the island. Hope all is well.
Usually how deep are the jetties after the rocks end? We used popping corks out there and cut bait on spider weights but had limited success. I wonder if we were getting deep enough. Also, do you recommend using cut or frozen bait on the lemon rig or is live shrimp the best?
On the channel side, about 15 feet out from the rocks, the average depth is 20-30 feet. Where most of the fish dwell however is right above the rocks at the outermost edge which is usually around 10ft. On the Surfside at the end of the jetty there is a bank and a drop off that moves and changes with the tides and weather. I've seen it get as deep as 50ft and as shallow as 10ft but again where most of the fish hang seems to be right on the edge of the rocks in 10-15 feet depths. Best baits for lemon rig is going to be live ones I think. Shrimp, pin perch, fingerling mullet. Cut baits and frozen manhadens work great on bottom rigs for monster reds and sharks.
why would you use this instead of a slip float? Seems like they accomplish pretty much the same thing except you can get even deeper with the slip float.
Tbh, I'd bank on a simple sliding float with a stop knot being a better option, simply because the depth at which you fish can be varied infinitely by moving the stop knot, to cope with the tide coming in and out, else you'd have to be continually shortening or lengthening your leader....
Posted this on another comment but it was just like yours; slip bobbers work beautifully for the exact reasons you mentioned. The difference I have noticed is in being able to sense the bite more on the lemon rig. I think it has to do with the way the line is connected between the bait and the rod. Something about that orientation allows you to feel the hit rather than relying on the bobber going under to indicate a fish on.
Some places sell them "premade" with split shots or bb's inside. Since these have higher density than water (but not by much) this could help if it's the smaller size of lemon bottle and you need to retain a decent level of bouyancy. If you can find the larger lemon bottle save the money on the split shots!
It's a brilliant idea but the lemon bottles I get are pretty thick. Don't know if the light would shine through and it would have to be waterproof as you need the weight on the bottle to get it out to the fishies
I stick to 7' plus rods on the jetties personally. That extra reach has gotten me out of a couple pickles and also helps get that spoon out to the frenzy when needed.
I've seen 2 modifications that help with this; using heavier weight line (50#) and shorting the length of the lemon line by about 6 inches. Also, and I couldn't really explain why but using a spinning real tangles less than a baitcast. Pure anecdotal evidence here but it seems to make a difference for I dunno what reason : /
If you're willing to possibly sacrifice a couple of sinkers, get a heavy sinker and tie up a fishfinder rig with a plastic bottle or float at the end instead of a hook. Cast it out where you want to fish, and pull the line tight so that the float/bottle abuts the sinker. Then gradually feed line out, foot by foot (helps if you mark a line on your rod) until the float/bottle pops back up. That'll be the depth of that area, +/- a foot or so depending on swell.
I've had good luck up there with a lemon rig but the best use in my opinion is just how Jeff and Jung were using them, right above those edge rocks at the deeper drops.
Slip bobbers work beautifully for the exact reasons you mentioned. The difference I have noticed is in being able to sense the bite more on the lemon rig. I think it has to do with the way the line is connected between the bait and the rod. Something about that orientation allows you to feel the hit rather than relying on the bobber going under to indicate a fish on.
You guys should call it the CC Lemon Rig as you both live in Corpus Christie and from this day forward it will forever be known in fishing books and videos everywhere that the CC Lemon Rig was invented by two wild and crazy anglers in Corpus Christie Texas! Forget the slip bobber!
The fluid left in the lemon adds weight to your line and assists in a good cast, it also gives you good line feel as it suspends the bait in the water column you can get a very sensitive feel as to nibbles and full on bites . Lemon riggs have been used for years ( in Corpus ), we used to use them for Trout with live shrimp back in the 80s.
I think he meant, instead of the lemon bottle for the floating device, why not just use a cork. I'm curious as well. I think that the lemon bottle allows for you to adjust the weight of the rig and the length of the leader by sliding more line into the lemon bottle then tightening the cap back on to lock it in place. What do you think?
I'm sure you and the guys think your a good boys but your not. You let those fish you return beat the hell out of themselves on the rocks or concrete. Did you never hear about a fish pillow/blanket ?
Jeff and Coop and the rest of their crew do more for being responsible anglers than 90% of the guys and gals I see out on those jetties so let's not beat them up too much! You raise an excellent point though and it's one that even I hadn't considered much. Thanks for raising awareness!