How to enjoy jet eging: tough conditions become fun
Watch this video: Keystone evangelist Kubo's “Jet eging explained on the water” (about 17 minutes).
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How to enjoy jet eging
Jet eging is tip-run fishing from the shore, casting a JetChaser. You can start with the eging tackle you already have.
It flies. Sizes 2.5, 2.6, 3.0 and 3.1 are small bodies carrying 20–24g, so when you cast, it really flies. A true jet.
The bite comes to your hand. Jerk, stop and keep the line tight, and the moment a squid grabs the egi travels straight to your rod tip and your hand. The fun of tip-run, from the shore.
Enjoy the feeling that “one is coming”. That hunch when the current and the conditions line up. Working the egi while you read the current through the way your line goes down is what makes this fishing so good.
Sometimes they are already on. The egi falls as if fleeing, so a squid may already be holding it before you jerk.
Tough conditions become a chance. Strong wind, fast or complex current, a high footing. Even where an ordinary egi cannot be worked down, you can feel the bottom and reach active bigfin reef squid.
You can work it right to your feet. It is heavy and sinks fast, so you can keep working it almost all the way in, where you would normally have to reel in an ordinary egi.
Nights are fun too. Even in the dark, keep the line tight and the bite comes to your hand with a solid “thunk”. Besides bigfin reef squid, cuttlefish and swordtip squid may also turn up.
On high breakwaters and rocky shores, and when fishing at night, wear a life jacket and watch your footing.
From the Workshop in Arita
JetChaser is a genuine made-in-Japan product, crafted at KEYSTONE's own factory in Arita, Saga Prefecture — the town of Arita porcelain. We put our soul into each and every egi.
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What is JetChaser
JetChaser is an egi made for tip-run from the shore (jet eging), with weight packed into a small body. It comes in four sizes: 2.5 (20g), 2.6 (22g), 3.0 (22g) and 3.1 (24g). It weighs about the same as a size 3.5 egi for shore fishing, so it is easy to jerk.
