b'JIGGING The second point is even if you cant find snapper, you will be surprised at what other species turn up in winter when jigging.Kingfish, hapuka, gurnard, trevally, squid and porae often turn up in your bin from a good jigging session.Many in my opinion taste Use your sounder to look for sign hardbetter than snapper and make a nice on the bottom or bait fish schools tochange for the table and your family send down your jigs onto. to enjoy.GO DEEPEROn those calm winter days with little wind and swell, these are the ones to head out deeper and hunt around using your sounder to find good sign or baitfish to drop down your jigs onto.Knowing how to use your sounder and what sign represents which species can help, but having a decent transducer for your fish finder will make a big difference on locating targets.Both styles of jigs are best worked vertically, so you need to keep your drift speed down or if you are fortunate to have a Minn Kota, you can spot lock over a reef or fish sign to keep your position while working the jigs.Snapper will take jigs in winter, and you just need to go a bit further out in the boat looking for sign on your sounder in deeper water.There are actually a couple of benefits to jigging in winter over the warmer months, the first is that if you find snapper in good numbers then the pesky kahawai which plague your fishing in spring arent usually around.This can be one of the annoying factors with workup fishing when you cant get through them to the bottom to where the snapper are waiting.I can recall one such trip in winter in mid-July when I headed out from Kawakawa Bay to go over to the Coromandel with mate Graeme Paterson from Synit Rods.We didnt make it as only halfway across, we came across a small workup of a dozen gannets diving with a few dolphins and, on the sounder, the bottom was stacked with fish which turned out to be all snapper from 50-60cm and we had a ball using slow pitchA quality slow pitch rod such as this jigs and finished fishing by 11am. Temple Reef Elevate, will ensure you can work the jigs well and entice more strikes.68FISHING IN GODZONE JUL/AUG 2023'