09-10-2007, 01:07 AM
Certainly darting seems better suited to autumn fishing than spring. In autumn the squid are young, growing and have a voracious appetite. Darting attracts their attention. They won't touch the jig while its darting but if you keep line tension and let it fall they will grab it. The other thing is to let it sit on the bottom for 10 seconds or so and than use a light jerk to get it of the bottom and then dart 4 or 5 times. The jig disappearing from view switches on that hunting instinct and as soon as they find it again they strike. Or so the theory goes <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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Anyway, I was darting away Saturday/Sunday and I got 6 to my mates 2 between them so I must have been doing something right <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cool.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BrCjadK04w&mode=related&search="]This video[/url] which I think has been posted, is a good demonstration. Though I would let it sink a bit more, even to the bottom, during the day and onle dart 4 or 5 times before sinking it for 5 to 10 seconds. By the way, I have this on DVD <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' /> Actually, almost all of the pros talk about darting, especially during autumn. If you decide to give up and recast, don't do a straight retrieve, dart it and you never know what might lock on...

Anyway, I was darting away Saturday/Sunday and I got 6 to my mates 2 between them so I must have been doing something right <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cool.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BrCjadK04w&mode=related&search="]This video[/url] which I think has been posted, is a good demonstration. Though I would let it sink a bit more, even to the bottom, during the day and onle dart 4 or 5 times before sinking it for 5 to 10 seconds. By the way, I have this on DVD <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
