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Piers, harbour walls or over reefs from your yak. Drop down vertically and retrieve slowly, or cast a little way out. Yamashita Warm Jackets are the go-to squid jigs. They often have luminous paint that you charge up with a torch, or a slot for a starlight.

You can either rig the jigs singly or on droppers from a main line.

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56 minutes ago, Andy135 said:

Piers, harbour walls or over reefs from your yak. Drop down vertically and retrieve slowly, or cast a little way out. Yamashita Warm Jackets are the go-to squid jigs. They often have luminous paint that you charge up with a torch, or a slot for a starlight.

You can either rig the jigs singly or on droppers from a main line.

Pretty much what I am intending to do, would like the yamashita but as squid are not caught or, possibly more importantly, not fished for, I will wait until I get pulls or a squid or two before shelling out big style. I have casting lures of several sizes and a few for droppers along with in line glowing commercial jigs. 

I have a couple of spots to try, one of which has had a report of one being caught and another where people report getting pulls but not getting fish or crabs on baits. Both are on estuary mouths so I presume that I should try when there is low fresh flows. There are 30-40'+ channels nearby and mainly sand bottoms. Idea is to fish close to channels late afternoon and as dark falls back onto the shallower sand.

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99p Jigs work just as good as the Yamashita ones - colours vary - seems each will work on their day. I have a selection of expensive ones and cheap amazon ones - i use the cheap ones on the boat and the decent ones from the pier - only as i'm competing with lots of other people in close proximity!

I catch squid from the boat in the harbour entrance in 40' of water over mud/sand - 3 weighted jigs on a flapper - no need to move them - let the boat do the work - lead bouncing just off the bottom. would do this of the pier but i worry about snags and tangles.

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from the pier i use one weighted jig vertically - lightly flicked up and down between the pylons - various depths. others float for them, or cast and retrieve. 

Dawn or dusk seems better - but 2 weeks ago we caught them in full sunshine. needs to be settled - calm with good water visibility - here we need light winds and no rain for a good few days (rain runs out of the harbour and dirtys the water, wind stirs it up too much.)

most jigs have glow in the dark bits, and I add some additional glow in the dark soft beads above them - i charge them up with a UV torch every 10 mins or so

people do add lights or light up the water from the pier. you can also add a strip of bait to them - although ive never tried that!

this one fell to a DTD 'wounded fish'

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And this one loved the yamashita

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my mate had 2 huge ones on cheap jigs last winter

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Weymouth gets silly crazy for them - hoards pf people camping out on the pier lights everywhere! 

keep us posted - would love to hear how you get on - i absolutely love fishing for these amazing creatures!

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On 10/3/2022 at 11:01 AM, mike farrants said:

keep us posted

Will do, just need the right conditions and I will be out, but I bet the right conditions will happen when I am munching on calamari and glugging Alhambra in a few weeks time!

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4 hours ago, Andy135 said:

Ooh! Sounds good. Holiday pics also welcome here too 👍

How about something similar in the meantime? You know how people take pictures when lying on a lounger next to the pool, their lower legs and toes, perhaps a glint of sun and a long cold drink in a frosted glass?

What about pics of retired old fart's toes with TV in the background, tea and snacks during a break in binge watching "Inside Man" because its been pouring down?20221005_164955.thumb.jpg.2514d9e16ace4e97733feefcd2b44002.jpg

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2 minutes ago, Malc said:

How about something similar in the meantime? You know how people take pictures when lying on a lounger next to the pool, their lower legs and toes, perhaps a glint of sun and a long cold drink in a frosted glass?

What about pics of retired old fart's toes with TV in the background, tea and snacks during a break in binge watching "Inside Man" because its been pouring down?20221005_164955.thumb.jpg.2514d9e16ace4e97733feefcd2b44002.jpg

 🤣Brilliant! And you get extra points for having a springer mug too 👍

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3 minutes ago, Malc said:

How about something similar in the meantime? You know how people take pictures when lying on a lounger next to the pool, their lower legs and toes, perhaps a glint of sun and a long cold drink in a frosted glass?

What about pics of retired old fart's toes with TV in the background, tea and snacks during a break in binge watching "Inside Man" because its been pouring down?20221005_164955.thumb.jpg.2514d9e16ace4e97733feefcd2b44002.jpg

You should get off your arse and do some dusting 🙄

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26 minutes ago, Andy135 said:

 🤣Brilliant! And you get extra points for having a springer mug too 👍

That's cause my ducky cup is getting a decoke in the kitchen with my brewing sterilising solution. 

14 minutes ago, Saintly Fish said:

Peanut m&m's??

Hell yeah, I was researching something so I can write a short essay and that's what I used to munch when doing research for my thesis and the boss bought them for me. She's a keeper!

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23 minutes ago, Malc said:

That's cause my ducky cup is getting a decoke in the kitchen with my brewing sterilising solution. 

Hell yeah, I was researching something so I can write a short essay and that's what I used to munch when doing research for my thesis and the boss bought them for me. She's a keeper!

One of my fav snacks, along with a big bag of revels. 

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16 hours ago, Malc said:

That's cause my ducky cup is getting a decoke in the kitchen with my brewing sterilising solution. 

Hell yeah, I was researching something so I can write a short essay and that's what I used to munch when doing research for my thesis and the boss bought them for me. She's a keeper!

Peanut M&N's? - they were a real "TREAT" for years, why stop using a brilliant name for a great product. To me they are still and always will be TREATS and we love 'em. Geoff.

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