2018 Rhode Island Squid Report

[Gilligan]

This is pretty amusing.  It's an underwater cam watching some squid jigs being trolled along the bottom.  The music makes it.

 

https://www.facebook.com/HotFish.eg/vide...095692258/

 

I never suspected they would hit the front part of a jig only.  Guess that's why you need to set the hook......

 

 Squid only hitting the front of the jig is not really true. Sometimes they do, but I have watched thousands of them take my jig from the back. Tease the crap out of one, he/she gets stupid, comes up from behind, I see the tentacles reach out, as soon as they touch the jig just reel harder and another squid in the bucket.  Other times I see my jig going sideways with the hooks already in him, strike and another one bites the dust. I often cast and retrieve (dock fishing) never letting the jig totally stop or sink more than three feet with slight slow downs in retrieve and they take it from behind trying to catch up to it. I probably cast and retrieve more than straight vertical jig, but again, I mostly fish docks or sometimes from shore, seldom bridges or boats. Of course if they are thick and straight down I just drop and jig vertically, even then I often watch them grab it from behind as it ascends, and sometimes hit it on the way down whence they will hit the front of the jig.