Choosing mackerel jig to catch mackerel fish or other types of fish sound challenging. This is why you need to consider many things before you purchase the mackerel fish jig so you can get the most suitable one. For your information, mackerel although is a small fish in size but they are fast swimmer and cannot help will smash any high speed jig and thus you really need certain jig or lure which can make the mackerel interested to snap on the jig. More guides below to help you find the best mackerel fish jig.

Guides to pick the most suitable mackerel jig

The most important point choosing for the best mackerel jig is that you can get them easily from your local tackle shop. Just go there and then find high speed jigs with silver color (others color are fine as long as they have bright and eye-caching colors) or lures with different sizes for this purpose and they are can be cast or deep water jigged. When you fishing the mackerel remember to crank as fast as possible and then you can let it drop, repeat the same process for another catch. This is the way to catch many types of mackerel fish as well as certain other types of fish.

When choosing mackerel jig types or lures, there are certain things that you should consider such as:

-          Mackerel fish is more interested to eye-catching jigs or lures and thus you should purchase few set of jigs with bright shiny colors such as yellow, blue, pink, green, orange, etc. The jigs which look like small fish will be easier to catch mackerel fish attention and they will snap the baits soon.

-          It is better to choose heavy and metal jig rather than sft plastic material especially if you want to catch Spanish mackerel. This type of mackerel has strong set of teeth and they are really fast when snapping the bait and possible the teeth will tore through the soft plastic jig. That’s why it is better to get heavy metal jig and not to mention they are easier to be casted far away onto large school of mackerel and you do not need to spook the fish to come closer to the boat.

-          You cannot just depend or work with the good quality of mackerel jig, but you also need to go with great quality of spinning reel. You need to make sure that the fishing reel works well with the pace.

How to jigging mackerel fish?

After you done choosing the mackerel jig or lures then this is the time you fishing those mackerel fish. Mackerel usually very abundant during late spring to mid-summer, they are easier to be caught during that season. Next, start to pick the spot and the fish can be anywhere. You maybe want to find deep water thus piers and docks will work better than surf casting at the beach. Follow these guides for more tips to catch mackerel fish:

-          Tie the rig on the fishing line and weight the opposite end with your small silver mackerel jig that you bought before.

-          Cast the line as far as possible and after that reel the line slowly. Do not forget to jerk fishing pole upward for every 20 seconds and this method is called “jigging” and it will work well when you want to fish mackerel. By jigging the pole, the bait will looks like a small frightened fish which ready to be eaten by large school of mackerel.

-          When you notice that the bait get some bite, you should stop jigging and then reel the line with steady pace. If you reel the line too fast, the mackerel fish might be free since the fish like to swim faster side to side in order to escape and this is why you need to steady the pace while enjoy the ride when you reeling the line.

Do not be surprised if your hook catches not only a mackerel fish, but two mackerels because other mackerel fish in large school might mistaking the fish struggle with the joy for eaten delicious smaller fish. Some people even can catch more than two mackerel fish and you have your luck too with your mackerel jig.