The moment you lower a metal jig to 40 m and feel it bounce off the bottom, then watch the sonar screen show a mark rising from the seabed to intercept it, is when jigging becomes an addiction.
A well-built trolling spread for Chinook salmon on Lake Ontario covers five depths simultaneously with six lures — getting that geometry right is where catches are made or lost.
When a blue marlin takes a lure at 8 knots and the reel screams against its drag in a run that empties 400 m of 130 lb braid in under two minutes, the scale of the ocean makes itself felt in the most visceral way.