MICRO MEAT
After a day out jigging with jigs and bait fishing with rigs off the Western Australian Coast back in 2013, Vexed created “Hybrid Jigging” by giving birth to the hugely successful “Bottom Meat”. Bottom Meat revolutionised reef fishing for demersal species by presenting more attractive baits and by being able to deploy baits deeper and more efficiently using less weight on lighter slow pitch jigging outfits that modern anglers prefer to use.
Vexed has now developed the “Micro Meat Hybrid” as a micro version of the Bottom Meat for smaller fish species from boat or shore. This hybrid jig has been designed with whiting in mind to either use on its own, or on the bottom of a paternoster rig as a “Fish Catching Sinker”. 70% or more whiting are caught on the bottom dropper hook of a traditional paternoster rig. During our testing sessions for sand whiting and king george whiting, we caught more fish on the Micro Meat Hybrid fished as the sinker than we did on the bottom dropper hook.
By using the Micro Meat Hybrid as the sinker, you now have two prime fish catchers down on the seafloor.
These have been tied using super strong and sticky sharp BKK hooks and a carefully selected mix of glow/UV flash fibre and rubber.
Micro Meat is available in a large range of weights and designed to use small strips of fish or squid as bait for species including whiting, bream, flathead and inshore snapper.
The Micro Meat hybrid doubles as a “Micro Tai Rubber” style jig without the addition of bait. It can be cast and twitched through structure, hopped across sand flats or dropped and jigged on bait schools and offshore reefs.
To bait, or not to bait? Well that’s up to you to decide.