When you're fishing a deeper grass edge, where the weeds stop in about 12ft, how do you put enough slack into the line to allow the bait to fall freely? I try lifting the rod tip as the jig touches down and feeding out slack at that point, but often I manage to contrive an over run by doing that. Is it just a matter of more practice, or is there a cunning trick I haven't worked out?

Feather the spool and mess around with your tension and brakes until to find the sweet spot. Slight overruns will still happen but in my experience they're not too catastrophic usually, just reseat your spool every so often.

I fish jigs and t-rigs often in the situation that you are talking about, typically towards the end of the cast i just thumb the spool and sweep my rod from pointing where i want to cast to almost 140 degrees rotated abound my body. this arc length more than makes up the 10-15 ft distance when using a 7'+ rod. 

 

Mitch

That's a good technique just lift slower and work the thumb on the spool. You have to be a line watcher on the fall with slack line. Be ready to take up slack and test for a live body! I do it all the time with senko's.

back the spool tension off more, and apply more mag brakes if needed. A 3/8oz Texas rigged plastic would be good

Just pull extra line off the reel with your hand as the jig sinks--"it ain't complicated"

Thanks guys. Sounds like there's no magic answer, just a bit more practice. I expect the times when it all goes a bit fuzzy are where I start raising the rod and feeding out line before the jig has actually touched down. A bit more patience and thumb as I pull off the slack would be the answer. More time on the water required.

Went out yesterday and tried the moving the rod to the side tip instead of my usual lifting the rod and it worked much better. I think I was subconsciously tending to lift the rod before the lure had touched down, causing the over run problems. By sweeping to the side I was waiting until the lure had touched down as it is such a different motion. 

Just pull extra line off the reel with your hand as the jig sinks--"it ain't complicated"

Thats what I do.