Fatboi and Glen,
At least there are fishos down there. I know what you mean by people swarming an area when a squid is caught. I was down there today (prefect day by the way) and i caught one small squid. The next thing i knew was that i had lines crossing everywhere around me. I was going quite well until my line was crossed and tangled so many times by all these people around me. Because of that, I lost two of my best jigs that were catching the squid for the day. I was reeling a squid up, and it got off just near the surface. Three jigs flew at my squid straight away, leaving me no chance of catching my own squid. It was shocking.
It was nice to see a fisho down there for the first time. He seemed a bit suspicous for after a while asking questions about limits etc. I figured out he was an undercover fisho. He explained to me that he was just looking out for real squid poachers that go there often. As I am of an asian background, he explained that some groups of mainly Vietnamese fishermen often go down and catch countless numbers of them (I've seen this too). He was just going around sussing people out. So at lease they are there, looks like their after the main illegal fishermen.
Regards,
Chick3n
At least there are fishos down there. I know what you mean by people swarming an area when a squid is caught. I was down there today (prefect day by the way) and i caught one small squid. The next thing i knew was that i had lines crossing everywhere around me. I was going quite well until my line was crossed and tangled so many times by all these people around me. Because of that, I lost two of my best jigs that were catching the squid for the day. I was reeling a squid up, and it got off just near the surface. Three jigs flew at my squid straight away, leaving me no chance of catching my own squid. It was shocking.
It was nice to see a fisho down there for the first time. He seemed a bit suspicous for after a while asking questions about limits etc. I figured out he was an undercover fisho. He explained to me that he was just looking out for real squid poachers that go there often. As I am of an asian background, he explained that some groups of mainly Vietnamese fishermen often go down and catch countless numbers of them (I've seen this too). He was just going around sussing people out. So at lease they are there, looks like their after the main illegal fishermen.
Regards,
Chick3n