Quote:Thanks for the info Gilligan. I will order some 6lb floro right now. I picked up a bunch of the YoZuri 1.8s, I will check out those Naorys now and get a few. I have to admit I have been so focused on fishing off a dock that I never thought about casting out as if surf fishing with the sinker on the bottom. I bet that would be good during the day to cover more water, I will set up a rig like that too and try it. Thanks! ÂÂ
 I squid mostly in Menemsha or Edgartown. We often cast without weight to cover ground when they are not right below us. Vertical jigging is nice, easy, and effective if they are in right where you are. Often they cruise around, or if they are not right by the dock casting different directions can sometimes find them. The 1.8B Naorys sink at 3-3.5 seconds per meter (about 12-13" per second) so I cast out into 10-12 feet of water, count as the jig sinks so counting nine seconds gets me down about nine feet before I begin my jigging retrieve. Naturally this is in an area with no fast current. We fish one pier where at max casting range the water may only be six feet at low tide and there is a lot of weed on the bottom so I only count down 3-5 seconds before beginning jigging retrieve. Many times there are folks getting few squid vertical jigging on a dock and my buddy and I walk up, cast out, do our sink rate count and catch squid 70 feet from the dock to the amazement of the vertical jiggers. This is another reason I use very thin line, one cannot cast a small light jig very far with even 12 lb line. When the squid come in good in Edgartown we sometimes fish for them in broad daylight out in the channel since they are often deep on the bottom in the daytime and not in shallower water by the docks. This is when we add the sinker for A-to keep it down in the current at depth, and B- to get better casting distance. You can cast a 1-1&1/2 oz sinker a mile with six pound line. I will go to a larger rod with 8-10 lb test on it if the current is really moving and I need 2oz to get it down since my tiny whippy rod with 4 lb cannot handle 2 oz of weight. By the way, the Edartown harbormaster stopped by my place (not on the Vineyard) last night and he has not yet seen any sign of squid. He is also my fishing partner and a great squidder and knows most of the other guys who are squidhounds so he usually knows soon after they arrive. Usually Falmouth and the Vineyard get the first squid in the harbors second-fourth week of May for the spring run. Hopefully we get a great run this spring.