G'day mate.
Yes Jig quality will affect you some times but its not the main factor you want to address, I've been out fished by mates giving them Cheapo $2 squid jigs not letting them use my Yama's and Harimitsu's yet they've grossly out fished me, same with fishing by myself... more squid on the good ole El-Cheapo Ebay squid jigs, so the one bit of advice I can give to you is don't just buy expensive squid jigs. Good colours for me are Blue, Pink, Brown and Orange... you'll definitely want alot of colour choices. Always search the water depth to find where the squid are, go from top to bottom then back up, change retrieves from slow twitchy pauses to really aggressive flicks.
Dan is right, Long whippy rods will help absorb the sudden thrust of a squid better then a short fast tapered rod...
My setup is a 2500 Stradic CI4 with 8lb Emeraldas Braid and a Daiwa E-Gee Interline rod, all up about 600 bucks but worth every penny.
Yes Jig quality will affect you some times but its not the main factor you want to address, I've been out fished by mates giving them Cheapo $2 squid jigs not letting them use my Yama's and Harimitsu's yet they've grossly out fished me, same with fishing by myself... more squid on the good ole El-Cheapo Ebay squid jigs, so the one bit of advice I can give to you is don't just buy expensive squid jigs. Good colours for me are Blue, Pink, Brown and Orange... you'll definitely want alot of colour choices. Always search the water depth to find where the squid are, go from top to bottom then back up, change retrieves from slow twitchy pauses to really aggressive flicks.
Dan is right, Long whippy rods will help absorb the sudden thrust of a squid better then a short fast tapered rod...
My setup is a 2500 Stradic CI4 with 8lb Emeraldas Braid and a Daiwa E-Gee Interline rod, all up about 600 bucks but worth every penny.