26-09-2012, 02:59 AM
Hi, I don't know about where you are, but I have caught many squid 50-70 miles out from the Vinyard at night while pursuing swords. We got bored sometimes at night, would put on the stern light and jig squid with two foot tubes and all we had for jigs were the weighted treble hooks one uses for snagging bunker. I'm sure there are squid available all over the seven seas, but many will be too big for 6lb test. There is a reason you see so many squid jigs in the 5" and larger range available for sale on the internet, you need the larger jigs for the larger squid. Jigging two foot tubes can be great fun, and we used to get a bit drunk and have squid fights by pulling them up fast then pointing them at each other and let me tell you, they really ink when they're that big, I think you may just need to go below the ones you see. We caught them with sometimes over 75 feet of line out. I think they don't see as well deep as they do near the surface, and can be more easily fooled. I am also sure you must have seen times at the dock where surface squid ignored all jigs, but if you went deep you would hook up. Keep us posted about your deeeep water squidding!!