Squid Jigging

[sandgroper]

Hey guys & girls,
Just wondering how you go about getting squid on a jig? I tried casting out & jigging but ive never had ne luck. How do you's do it? Anyone know of anywhere to go?

[HORTO]

only ever caught southern calamari . caught most of them over sea grass beds in the Tamar river. casting the jig and retrieving with pauses to allow it to sink again till i found where they were sitting in the water column.

[Scott15]

where do u live sandgroper?

[sandgroper]

Scott15, I live in the Redlands in Brisbane.

[Scott15]

Ok, try the Shorncliff pier. Caught a few there before in the day and night, but night is deffinately better. As for jigging the squid jig, Let it sink and give the rod tip a few jerks. Jig underneath the lights. Also if you got a boat jig the banks accross from Amity pt on Straddie. Really any major jetty or pier should produce squid

[5cougarsthanx]

try the victoria point jetty and also around the northern ramp both these on high water

[Freeeedom]

I find that the squid are available from the jetties mostly through the winter. During the summer there is good squidding over the weed beds on the shallow flats along the inside of Moreton Island. My preferred spot is between the Cowan artificial reef and the Bulwer wrecks. Drift over the weed beds dangling your jigs about half way to the bottom. You can cast and retrieve one as well. Cast out as far as you can, let the jig sink to the bottom and then retrieve in a jerky fashion. The squid here are the larger 'tiger squid' rather than the smaller 'arrow squid' that you get in the winter. I also often catch a small whiptail and let it swim around under the boat as an extra attractant, but make sure the drag is backed off because sometimes big cobia take them without even stopping.
Cheers Freeeedom

[sandgroper]

Kool, thanks for the advice. Just one more thing. What size squid jig is best around those spots??

[Relaxed]

G'day Sandgroper

Have caught most of my squid on the jigs that you use bait on, I have tried the others with little success.

Cheers Andy

[land-lubber]

hey sandgrouper, if ur headding up to hervey bay or fraser iisland at any stage, a gun spot is the kingfisherbay jetty, as well as the urangan pier. i prefer the kingfisher jetty. they get some 30cm or longer suckers of there at times, boy do they pul some drag!!
sizes, go for a smaller jig, in the 70-100mm range, the smaller jigs are better if the squid tend to be finnicky. the best colours are blues, oranges, pinks and my fav. is multicolour. yes, the jig colour IS IMPORTANT!!! the other option is to get a baitable one and catch a herring and use it.

due to the fast currents and large tidal changes, i find the best way to jig (if u can see the squid, which u can often do) is to slowly work the jig away from ur self with the tide, maybe the occational jig. ive found that if u just let it drift in the current, it often works. at times, we just tied them to the jetty and left them until a squid was heard inking on the surface.
if u cannot see the squid, cast out a jig that has enough lead to get it down in the water colum in the fast current and work it back towards urself with a jigging motion.
the best times at the bay is around christmas (summer)

The arrow squid are off the end in the channel, and the tastier calamari squid are in all areas, but try around the rocks in the middle of the jetty, or between the rocks and the beach at night under the first three lights.
hope this helps, these tecniques etc probably work in other areas as well, so try it at any known squid spot. the only way u will know is if u try it for ur self

[sandgroper]

Thanks guys, goin to amity point over christmas time so I will try it than!

Cheers Mick

[Billo]

Victoria point jetty , ebb tide , light winds ( water needs to be relatively clear ) if they are there , you will see em ...just bounce the bugger around !
They normally sit up current from the pylons and under the lights .
Also worth looking right up in the shallows on a big tide , and also on the southern side of the boat ramp over the weed beds