23-10-2008, 11:25 PM
[quote name='scissorhands' post='12473' date='Aug 23 2008, 05:58 PM']The Taiwanese shop guy showed me his own cache of lures. He reckons if you have no love with one try a different one until you get a squid or go home if none work. He also said tieing bait to the lure is a waste of time as squid rely on sight and not smell. His fav was a 3'5 white with fluro pink head with very high luminescnence
Anyways, I went down at low tide and found 4 lures today so I have a collection of 8 to rotate now.
I've tried 2.5-4's and different colours, retrieve with a jigging motion or 2 under a float.
I used to fish alot and spearfish as well but had been busy elsewhere for 15 years until recently. Even though I havnt caught a squid yet I am in a better mood and humour just from being on the rocks with a rod in hand.
I think I'm hooked again.
Nature is a winner.[/quote]
First time writing on this forum. I am one of Korean squid fishermen and I believe that I am using almost same tackles and fishing technique that "The Korean Guys" had and used on that day. They probably used squid jig with different color according to the condition of sea on that day. Normally, they use a jig with bright color with very high luminescnence in muddy water and a dark color jig for clear water to avoid wairness and give best attraction to squid as long as I know.
Even though the Taiwanese shop guy said tieing bait to the lure is a waste of time as squid rely on sight and not smell, tieing bait to the lure can increase in the time squid holds the lure because squid also prefer to have protein as their food. When squid comes to the lure and finds it is not a real prawn and just a hard plastic or wood that they can not chew or eat, they do run away if you dont notice their bite or you do not hook them quickly, so I think tied bait can remain squid on the jig util we notice their bite and we hook them. Of course, I use a very thin and small piece of salted bonito with skin on it using bait cord to avoid changing the shape of the shrimp.
Also, I use jigging motion to give realistic motion to the jig but I do use a little float to allow a jig to sink to the depth I want to fish and give time to squid to attack it about 7 seconds after giving jigging motion.
I do not go squid fishing frequently recently because of business but when I went fishing for squid, I used to catch more than 10 within 2hours and I think that it was because proper use of jig color for that day, tide, the charateristics of the location matched and also tied bait helped, compared to other fishermen with less amount of squid than I caught.
Sorry for grammartic errors but I tried my best so Please do not blame me. <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':beer' />
Anyways, I went down at low tide and found 4 lures today so I have a collection of 8 to rotate now.
I've tried 2.5-4's and different colours, retrieve with a jigging motion or 2 under a float.
I used to fish alot and spearfish as well but had been busy elsewhere for 15 years until recently. Even though I havnt caught a squid yet I am in a better mood and humour just from being on the rocks with a rod in hand.
I think I'm hooked again.
Nature is a winner.[/quote]
First time writing on this forum. I am one of Korean squid fishermen and I believe that I am using almost same tackles and fishing technique that "The Korean Guys" had and used on that day. They probably used squid jig with different color according to the condition of sea on that day. Normally, they use a jig with bright color with very high luminescnence in muddy water and a dark color jig for clear water to avoid wairness and give best attraction to squid as long as I know.
Even though the Taiwanese shop guy said tieing bait to the lure is a waste of time as squid rely on sight and not smell, tieing bait to the lure can increase in the time squid holds the lure because squid also prefer to have protein as their food. When squid comes to the lure and finds it is not a real prawn and just a hard plastic or wood that they can not chew or eat, they do run away if you dont notice their bite or you do not hook them quickly, so I think tied bait can remain squid on the jig util we notice their bite and we hook them. Of course, I use a very thin and small piece of salted bonito with skin on it using bait cord to avoid changing the shape of the shrimp.
Also, I use jigging motion to give realistic motion to the jig but I do use a little float to allow a jig to sink to the depth I want to fish and give time to squid to attack it about 7 seconds after giving jigging motion.
I do not go squid fishing frequently recently because of business but when I went fishing for squid, I used to catch more than 10 within 2hours and I think that it was because proper use of jig color for that day, tide, the charateristics of the location matched and also tied bait helped, compared to other fishermen with less amount of squid than I caught.
Sorry for grammartic errors but I tried my best so Please do not blame me. <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':beer' />