03-08-2005, 07:11 PM
Ok Sorry! I thought the photos had to be checked before they appear. Here they are. The Bread board they are on is 30cm long, they are the biggest ones I've caught last season.
When the season starts at the end of October we go to Marfa, and occasionly Cirkewwa. There is plenty of light there since they are both ports. Around January the squid start to get closer and we go to Ghadira Bay. However you will have to setup a light there as its completely dark. Usually the ones in Ghadira are bigger for some reason. Then towards Febuary they get even closer and you can fish for squid at Fekruna in Xemxija and St.Pauls Bay. However, Marfa still remains the best spot for them.
By boat there is a reef just out of Marfa in line with "Ahrax Point". You will be on the reef when you can see 7 street lights of Ghadira bay. To fish from the boat, get one of the Squid immersible lights that are produced locally from any fishing shop for around Lm12 and use 3 jigs on a line with a weight at the bottom.
I have personally never fished for squid anywhere else besides these places, so I wouldn't be able to tell exactly. However my suspicion is that Squid are very plentiful on the West/South West coast which is not very accessible and where the sea is very deep, sometimes already 160m at the coast and 400m 4 or 5 miles out. That is probably where most of the squid come from in Winter in search for food. I heard that a few years back there was a massive squid colony on the "Umel Faroud", a large vessel sunk just off the West coast of Malta, and nowadays used as a dive site.
The boxes on the Map indicate the squid hotspots I know about.
Cheers!
Leonard
When the season starts at the end of October we go to Marfa, and occasionly Cirkewwa. There is plenty of light there since they are both ports. Around January the squid start to get closer and we go to Ghadira Bay. However you will have to setup a light there as its completely dark. Usually the ones in Ghadira are bigger for some reason. Then towards Febuary they get even closer and you can fish for squid at Fekruna in Xemxija and St.Pauls Bay. However, Marfa still remains the best spot for them.
By boat there is a reef just out of Marfa in line with "Ahrax Point". You will be on the reef when you can see 7 street lights of Ghadira bay. To fish from the boat, get one of the Squid immersible lights that are produced locally from any fishing shop for around Lm12 and use 3 jigs on a line with a weight at the bottom.
I have personally never fished for squid anywhere else besides these places, so I wouldn't be able to tell exactly. However my suspicion is that Squid are very plentiful on the West/South West coast which is not very accessible and where the sea is very deep, sometimes already 160m at the coast and 400m 4 or 5 miles out. That is probably where most of the squid come from in Winter in search for food. I heard that a few years back there was a massive squid colony on the "Umel Faroud", a large vessel sunk just off the West coast of Malta, and nowadays used as a dive site.
The boxes on the Map indicate the squid hotspots I know about.
Cheers!
Leonard