04-04-2005, 05:12 PM
Squid Off Mornington. I was down there easter Monday and within about 1 hour pulled up my bag limit mid-afternoon. Suprise suprise, not many other people were landing them.
I ahve tried all sorts of jigs yet the only successfull one I have is a small yamashita, yellow and orange. The size is one size up from the smallest. I have it ties directly to a very light mono leader of about 40 cm then a very small swivel onto fireline. I don't have ANY other wieght on the line. Everyone else I see has splitshot above or a sinker below the jig. Never been successfull this way...
cast out just between the first few boats on the start of the peir and let the jig sit and slowly swim down... when it is almost out of view, give it a tug and let it swim down again... no extra weight on the line. I had a guy next to me with the same lure, with extra weight and he was not geting anything. I scrapped the weight from his rig and he pulled up about 5 in about 30 minutes. OK size of about 10 - 15cm tubes.
I ahve tried all sorts of jigs yet the only successfull one I have is a small yamashita, yellow and orange. The size is one size up from the smallest. I have it ties directly to a very light mono leader of about 40 cm then a very small swivel onto fireline. I don't have ANY other wieght on the line. Everyone else I see has splitshot above or a sinker below the jig. Never been successfull this way...
cast out just between the first few boats on the start of the peir and let the jig sit and slowly swim down... when it is almost out of view, give it a tug and let it swim down again... no extra weight on the line. I had a guy next to me with the same lure, with extra weight and he was not geting anything. I scrapped the weight from his rig and he pulled up about 5 in about 30 minutes. OK size of about 10 - 15cm tubes.