2019 Massachusetts Squid Report

[alaskanaturally]

We're not experts but have fished for these critters in a lot of different places including Australia, Mexico and Seattle. The only consistent thing about it is that one has to remain flexible. So try marinating in fish sauce or oyster sauce if soy is not working. All kidding aside, it really pays to change what you are doing if you know squid are there and you're not getting any. Like RealGood, we tend to use smaller jigs. One night last year, everyone around us was catching and we were not. Then we observed that they were using very large jigs. We switched weapons and starting getting them as well as the others. Another time we watched a fellow getting one or two on every cast. We'd get one every so often. We noticed that that fellow wasn't using a sinker. He had an unweighted Coleman jig on the bottom with a small prawn above it. We switched over  to his kind of rig and sure 'nough after that we caught just as many as he did. We've had many such experiences over the years.

 

The take away from this is to be observant and stay flexible.