We used three different rigs--the most common was about 75" of 1/8" dacron braided line, with 6 feet 100 lb monofiliment or Seven Strand leader. These were swaged with a ball bearing swivel of apporpiate size. There was a 12" piece of 1/2" surgical rubber tubing to act as a shock absorber about 2 feet from the boat end of the line and a lazy loop of 24" of line. The boat end was tied with a bowline and would fit on a cleat aft. The line was pulled in by hand. Normally we would troll two lines-with different lures on each one. The second was a plastic hand reel about 6" in diameter and contained about 100 feet of 300 lb monofiliment using the same leader. The fourth was a Pen Senator 114H reel with a 6' heavy duty stand up rod in a holder (roller guides and tip) and braided dacron line or monofiliment of 50 lb strength and 50 to 100 lb leaders. (Used only when we were tending the rig) The 4" to 6" jigs were either white and red feathers, "mexican hat"--Red Green Yellow skirts, Plastic rubberized squid in clear, or pink with double SS hooks, or a white or silver jig (some were old "bone Jigs) with tripple hooks. The other regular jig was a Rapella about 6" long to 8" long in mackeral pattern. We drug a meat line almost all of the time. We regularly caught Tuna, Wahoo, Mahi Mahi, Bariccuda, Ciera, Bonita (usually thrown back) and the occasional shark and one sail fish --(not boated). We kept a glove aft, so we could handle the leader directly and if the fish was large used a gaff. There were areas where we went specific fishing--such as Rock fish, Salmon or Halibut in Alaska. We used specific rigs for this. The only time we used bait was for Halibut. (We jigged for the herring to use for bait). Fish were usually frozen after being filleted. Enough for that days meal was kept out. The sharks were bled out before we boated them, and the meat was fine the first day--but even with rapid freezing, the amonia was too strong for later consumption. Bob Austin