04-04-2023, 04:07 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-04-2023, 04:09 AM by Retired squid.)
Like you Gilligan, I have been fishing for squid an awful long time (1974)! I was stationed on a ship in Newport and one day while jigging for mackerel I ended up snagging 3 squid. My wife and I are Italian and we love squid. I started making home made jigs with government pens, yellow spray paint, hooks glued around the bottom and a split shot sinker pushed inside the pen. At the beginning when I was catching them people would ask what did I do with all of them, surely I had more than I needed for bait.... lol .... BAIT, my wife would have killed me for using fresh squid for bait! Anyway, I have never used a generator or any lights and have always fished from the piers or bridges, as a matter of fact I normally fished during the day, bringing my family along most times. Unfortunately, I don't get to fish for squid that much anymore, we are usually in Italy during the prime time squid fishing season and we leave Italy before their squid season begins!