01-08-2017, 01:42 AM
If you are drifting it shouldn't take so much lead which will deaden the feel of the squid pic-up. 2-3 oz should be plenty. I have only caught them at night offshore and it was mostly to have something to do at night. As Janz says the larger jigs should work well. I would suspect they hold near the bottom in daytime, you may have to bounce bottom with the sinker and use a heavier one like 5-6oz if you are drifting. If you are anchored up your 8oz will likely be necessary. They will come up the water column at night to lights, we only used a stern light which did not really shine down in the water that much because it was all we had and they did seem to come up to the to 40' in 180' of water. Had some great ink fights with those big 18" tubes offshore squids!!