18-08-2010, 02:52 AM
Squid always come to the Jetties on the eastern side of St vincents gulf from late June till early spring in large numbers to breed.
it happens when the water temp drops and that dosnt happen until we get the first real big rains.
without a doubt the best squid jags are the Yamashita Natural coulous, sizes 2 and 2.5, the best colours depend on the conditions, but i find the coulor thats just like a slimey mackerel is probarly the best. i always use a 14 pound flurocarbon leader, rod is a shimano rack raider 3-5kg and reel is TD Diawa sol 2000 with 10 pound fireline. nice light rod, you can use it for hours and when you get a nice squid they put a nice bend in the rod.
the Yamashita squid jags i use i cast them out let them sink and reel them in super slow, if youre getting ribbon weed on your jag you are only just reeling too slow, no twitching or anything just let the lure drift through the current and thats normally all that you need to do.
and mabye grab yourself a round two ring yabby net for landing the massive ones you get quite often.best of luck.
[quote name='glen' post='16064' date='Jul 31 2009, 11:15 PM']hi 1s24k, thanks for the report! <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/xyxthumbs.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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it happens when the water temp drops and that dosnt happen until we get the first real big rains.
without a doubt the best squid jags are the Yamashita Natural coulous, sizes 2 and 2.5, the best colours depend on the conditions, but i find the coulor thats just like a slimey mackerel is probarly the best. i always use a 14 pound flurocarbon leader, rod is a shimano rack raider 3-5kg and reel is TD Diawa sol 2000 with 10 pound fireline. nice light rod, you can use it for hours and when you get a nice squid they put a nice bend in the rod.
the Yamashita squid jags i use i cast them out let them sink and reel them in super slow, if youre getting ribbon weed on your jag you are only just reeling too slow, no twitching or anything just let the lure drift through the current and thats normally all that you need to do.
and mabye grab yourself a round two ring yabby net for landing the massive ones you get quite often.best of luck.
[quote name='glen' post='16064' date='Jul 31 2009, 11:15 PM']hi 1s24k, thanks for the report! <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/xyxthumbs.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
q:' />[/quote]