03-12-2004, 11:17 AM
[color="blue"]Try jigging for squid to heat up a cold night [/color]
[color="green"]By Mark Yuasa[/color]
[color="orange"]Seattle Times staff reporter[/color]
[color="gray"]Thursday, December 02, 2004 - Page updated at 12:00 A.M.[/color]
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Squid jigging, which usually peaks around Thanksgiving, is heating up along many Elliott Bay piers, as well as others across Puget Sound.
"I've had quite a few guys come in to buy squid jigs, and right now it's the only good thing going on," said Jerry Beppu, owner of Linc's Tackle Shop in Seattle. "On average, the squid are slightly smaller in size than last year. But if you get into certain schools you'll find bigger ones too."
To catch them, use the technique of raising a lightweight trout rod and reel up to the 10 o'clock position, then lowering it to give the jig the look of a small injured fish.
The weighted jigs come in a variety of luminous colors. Hot pink, fluorescent green or red striped jigs are hot sellers. Others prefer to use nonweighted jigs with a one-ounce lead weight to get it down to the preferred depth.
Jigging is usually best right before and after high tide. Squid tend to feed just after dark, but fishing for them can be excellent even during daylight or early-morning hours.
The well-lit Pier 86, just off Elliott Way near the grain terminal, is by far the most popular squid-jigging area.
Piers 62 and 63, the Seattle Aquarium pier and the pier just north of it, along with the Seacrest Boathouse pier in West Seattle, are ideal places to wet a line.
Outside of Elliott Bay, Beppu says squid jigging has been decent off the Edmonds Marina pier and Les Davis pier in Tacoma.
Other places worth trying are Brownsville dock in Bremerton, Point Defiance Park Boathouse pier, Fauntleroy ferry dock, Vashon Island ferry pier, Redondo-Des Moines Marina pier, and Illahee State Park and City piers in Kitsap County....
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[color="green"]By Mark Yuasa[/color]
[color="orange"]Seattle Times staff reporter[/color]
[color="gray"]Thursday, December 02, 2004 - Page updated at 12:00 A.M.[/color]
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Squid jigging, which usually peaks around Thanksgiving, is heating up along many Elliott Bay piers, as well as others across Puget Sound.
"I've had quite a few guys come in to buy squid jigs, and right now it's the only good thing going on," said Jerry Beppu, owner of Linc's Tackle Shop in Seattle. "On average, the squid are slightly smaller in size than last year. But if you get into certain schools you'll find bigger ones too."
To catch them, use the technique of raising a lightweight trout rod and reel up to the 10 o'clock position, then lowering it to give the jig the look of a small injured fish.
The weighted jigs come in a variety of luminous colors. Hot pink, fluorescent green or red striped jigs are hot sellers. Others prefer to use nonweighted jigs with a one-ounce lead weight to get it down to the preferred depth.
Jigging is usually best right before and after high tide. Squid tend to feed just after dark, but fishing for them can be excellent even during daylight or early-morning hours.
The well-lit Pier 86, just off Elliott Way near the grain terminal, is by far the most popular squid-jigging area.
Piers 62 and 63, the Seattle Aquarium pier and the pier just north of it, along with the Seacrest Boathouse pier in West Seattle, are ideal places to wet a line.
Outside of Elliott Bay, Beppu says squid jigging has been decent off the Edmonds Marina pier and Les Davis pier in Tacoma.
Other places worth trying are Brownsville dock in Bremerton, Point Defiance Park Boathouse pier, Fauntleroy ferry dock, Vashon Island ferry pier, Redondo-Des Moines Marina pier, and Illahee State Park and City piers in Kitsap County....
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