Deep Water Slow Pitch Jigs 150g & 250g | COLMANTS CastMan®

CastMan Deep Water is built for one job: the long, slow fall over deep structure. Two sizes — 150g at 5½ inches and 250g at 6½ inches — for amberjack, grouper, snapper and tuna from about 75 feet down to 300.

The Shimmer Drop. Give it slack and the jig levels out flat and horizontal, then flutters down in a tight, high-frequency shimmer. The body is center-balanced, so it holds that attitude in current instead of rolling over and nose-diving. Most deep bites come on the fall, and a jig that stays flat stays in the strike zone longer — throwing flash sideways the entire way down.

1.2mm Epoxy Vault. Most jigs get a clear coat. These get a measured 1.2mm epoxy shell poured over the holographic foil and the recessed 3D eyes, then cured hard — about the thickness of a credit card and a half, and it is not thinned out on the heavier size to save cost. Teeth, reef structure and hook rash stop at the shell. The foil underneath keeps its depth and its flash through a full season in the jig bag, and the eyes cannot peel, snag a hook point or get knocked out the way a stick-on eye can.

UV-reactive foil on every color. Not an accent on select patterns. Every colorway in the line fluoresces under the blue-violet light that still reaches depth, which is exactly where ordinary color disappears first. Glow sits on top of that on select patterns, for the deepest water and the low-light bite.

Rigged and ready. The nose stack runs molded loop to split ring to welded solid ring, with BKK twin assist hooks matched to each weight — 4/0 at 150g, 5/0 at 250g. The split ring is rated 200 to 300 lb, and because the assists are bound to the solid ring, the cords never ride in the split ring’s gap. Each assist cord is bound to its hook with ultra-high-tensile thread under a marine-grade epoxy seal, protecting the connection from fraying. Clip a snap to the split ring and fish it straight out of the sleeve. Nothing to buy, nothing to re-rig.

Where to tie it. Connect at the nose, never the tail — a slow pitch jig is built to hang and fall head-up. Clipping a snap to the split ring is the fastest way to work, and your leader never touches the split. If you would rather run a knot, tie straight to the solid ring: smooth, welded and gapless, it is the best knot surface on the jig, and your leader simply shares the ring with the assist cords. A knot on the welded nose loop is stronger still, since it takes the split ring out of the load path, though it is fiddly to thread and you give up quick jig changes. A barrel swivel on the split ring with your leader on the far eye also works and takes line twist out of long falls — rate the swivel at or above your leader, since it carries the whole load. The one thing to avoid is knotting the leader onto the split ring itself, where the gap will chafe fluorocarbon and mono under load.

How to fish it. Lift, pause, let it go. One slow lift of the rod with a quarter to half turn of the handle sends the jig up and sideways; drop the tip and the pause does the work. No aggressive cadence, no brick-pulling, and no fatigue over a long day on the rail. Watch your line on every fall — that is where the bite comes.

Field-tested. Deep Water came back intact from late Spring charter seasons at Race Point, Provincetown and September Snapper season in the Gulf. Dozens of striped bass to 48 inches in 75 to 175 feet of water, with the finish and the terminal hardware holding through the whole run in Provincetown, big ugly Snapper and Grouper in the Gulf.

Ten colorways, covering every depth band from the reds and oranges that work shallow to the blues, purples and glows that carry to the bottom.