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The first thing you want to do no matter what sort of rig you are using is to employ the proper amount of weight. You want to use as little weight as possible to get your offering down, but you want to be using enough weight to keep your line close to vertical. Whether you are jigging, dropping live bait or working a shrimp fly style leader you don’t want to allow a lot of angle to develop in your line. When angle develops, you have much less control and you will almost always begin dragging and when you drag you snag. I always like to position myself such that I’m on the side of the boat facing into the drift. If I dropped my gear straight down in this position I would get several seconds, perhaps a minute or two of vertical fishing time, before my line started angling under the boat and I’d have to retrieve it and re-drop. However, being on the leading side of the drift allows me to make a short underhanded cast in the direction the boat is drifting. Having done this, once my gear reaches the bottom my line will be beyond vertical. As the boat drifts my line will become vertical and then start angling under the boat. By making the cast I get more quality time on the bottom and that means more opportu- nity to hook fish. All the lures and rigs we’ve mentioned will catch fish spread throughout the water column, but something to keep in mind is that in most cases the best quality largest fish will be holding pretty tight to the bottom. You can catch lots of school fish such as blues and olives that range from 1 to 2 pounds suspended at various depths. But to catch large hardheads like vermil- ions and browns that consistently weight in at 3 to 5 pounds or more your gear needs to be down near the rocks. When using shrimp flies or live bait rigs all you need to do to hook fish is drop your gear to the bottom, engage the reel, retrieve two or three feet of line and wait for a hit. When using jigs, you’ll want to allow your lure to hit the bottom and then yo yo it up and down. If you don’t hook up with a live bait or shrimp fly rig before it starts to sweep under the boat, retrieve the rig slowly and steadily and you will often pick up a school fish on the way up. When it comes time to reel in a jig, burn it up off the bottom 20 or 30 feet quickly and then stop and yo yo the jig a few times. Lots of times this will pull a fish off the bottom that has been watching the jig and when the jig stops the fish will nail it. Not only is this a great strategy for hooking big rockfish, but it is also deadly effective on lingcod too. As a final tip whether you are using a jig or a conventional sinker, if you do get snagged using braid you can often get your gear loose. As soon as you get snagged holding your rod in a horizontal position hammer the snag with three or four fast sharp jabs of the rod tip and then drop the rod tip creating slack. It is amazing how often your rig will come free once you tighten the line again. I try this hammer and drop approach two or three times before I give up and let the drift of the boat break the leader.