Daiwa Harrier SLJ Super Light Jigging Rods

Super light jigging is a unique and popular Japanese style of bottom fishing, using thin and light line with smaller jigs. Because of how light and sensitive the rods are it is easy to tell when you’ve got a bite, and unlike other jigging styles these rods have a faster bend which makes it easier to bring fish in. We recently got introduced to SLJ by some Japanese colleagues from Valley Hill whom we took out to fish with us for some product development and testing. In the few hours we fished with them we were able to catch spotties, halibut, calico bass, sand bass, sculpin, square spots and vermillion reds and since then we’ve been using the same rods for a lot of our bass fishing because of how comfortable they are to fish with. With this style you’ll want to be vertical, drop the jig straight down and bounce it near the bottom for the best chances of getting bit. They didn’t work as well when we tried to cast and retrieve them like other lures, but that is mainly dependent on the typ