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anyone tried squid jigging 30-100m+ ?

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Forum Name: Calamari Capers! Squid Jigging
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Topic: anyone tried squid jigging 30-100m+ ?
Posted By: jack.worthington
Subject: anyone tried squid jigging 30-100m+ ?
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2019 at 4:07pm
Always wanted to put a squid jig on a dropper rig. There doesnt seem to be many barracouta around at the moment so no jig-losing issues there. Anyone had luck with this?


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Posted By: Telecaster
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2019 at 7:57am
Yes I have had some success over foul in 40-50m, mainly Arrow squid.

Posted By: OuttaHere
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2019 at 9:31am
I want to give this a try too. A while back we were on what is usually a quite good Tarakihi spot and the sounder was showing a massive ball of sign in about 50-80m depth. Expecting instant multiple hookups of Terrys we were kinda surprised to hook nothing at all, until one of the boys hooked up on a squid (I think a fairly large arrow squid?)

In the future I'll try plopping down a squid jig on one of the droppers. Wonder if you could rig one heavy enough to run on a slow-jig setup in those depths?

Posted By: DenimViper
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2019 at 10:32am
You can buy 40-50gm squid jigsin japan designed for that kind of stuff

Posted By: jack.worthington
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2019 at 11:00am
Originally posted by Telecaster Telecaster wrote:

Yes I have had some success over foul in 40-50m, mainly Arrow squid.


How do arrow squid taste? They are bigger than our inshore squid right?

Posted By: Telecaster
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2019 at 2:42pm
Originally posted by _jackrw_ _jackrw_ wrote:

Originally posted by Telecaster Telecaster wrote:

Yes I have had some success over foul in 40-50m, mainly Arrow squid.


How do arrow squid taste? They are bigger than our inshore squid right?


Not bad, not quite as nice as the broadfin squid we catch in the shallows though. They vary in size but can get quite large, although my biggest arrow is still well under a kilo.

Posted By: DenimViper
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2019 at 6:02pm


How do arrow squid taste? They are bigger than our inshore squid right


when you ordering calamari in a restaurant it's all arrow squid


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