
Best squid jig colour
#21
Posted 22 September 2004 - 04:35 PM
It was caught in Westernport last summer.
Thought the pic looked very familiar, did you lift it off fishvictoria.com?
Jaz
#22
Posted 22 September 2004 - 05:11 PM
#23
Posted 22 September 2004 - 05:22 PM

That was caught on a silver whiting baited jig. Of the 20-odd squid we caught that trip 19 were caught on baited jigs, 1 on a prawn style. Definately use a baited jig for the big fellas!
Have you got any thumpers this season Pete? I hear that so far they are a bit patchy.
Jaz
#24
Posted 22 September 2004 - 05:50 PM
#25
Posted 22 September 2004 - 06:16 PM
Blue or green during the day.
Pink or Orange during the evening/night.
#26
Posted 12 June 2005 - 04:05 PM
Here in Qld a mate and myself go winter whiting fishing every winter. Each time we go we set out three rods with paternoster rigs with 3 squid jigs on each as we drift around for whiting.
Each rod has a green, orange and pink jig set at 60cm intervals set a minimum of 60cm from the dragging sinker on the bottom. For a test we had all the same jigs in varied colours on each rod, one rod was green then orange then pink next rod was orange then pink then green and the last was pink green then orange.
The results were for the first morning: Green jigs scored 3 squid, Pink jigs scored 11 squid and orange jigs produced 27 squid.
All squid were arrow squid from a minimum of about 15cm mantle length to 35cm mantle length.
Ohh and we caught about 65 whiting also the same morning.
On similar trips we have had very consistent results for depth and colour. On depth we were surprised that it didnt matter what level the orange jig was on it worked the green only worked on the bottom level I.E. 60cm from the bottom. The pink jig scored mostly on the bottom and middle levels but two were from the top level.
No attractants or actions were given to any jig apart from the 1/2" ball sinker dragging along the bottom.
Mangajack
Edited by mangajack, 12 June 2005 - 04:06 PM.
#27
Posted 12 June 2005 - 10:04 PM

#28
Posted 13 June 2005 - 11:13 AM
Edited by SqUid_KiLlEr_99, 13 June 2005 - 11:14 AM.
#29
Posted 15 January 2006 - 04:37 PM
#30
Posted 13 February 2006 - 03:30 PM
pj
pj
#31
Posted 23 February 2006 - 06:28 PM
Paul
More fish in the one spot.
#32
Posted 26 May 2006 - 01:44 PM
#33
Posted 04 July 2006 - 08:18 PM
#34
Posted 20 July 2006 - 10:39 PM
extract from: www.trackairadventures.com/squid.htm
Some days nothing is to their liking........Good luck


#35
Posted 21 July 2006 - 04:04 PM
#36
Posted 29 January 2007 - 04:34 PM
Its so easy to delude oneself about the smaller points. This thread just shows that any colour can work with great success
Most people say that pink and orange work better - that is probably because we, as humans, tend to think of squid as rather stupid which I suppose they are, but because those fluro pinks and oranges are the most eye catching to us, we tend to expect them to be eyecatching and therefore productive with squid, and therefore we have faith in these colours, which is only cemented when we catch a squid on one.
I have a mate who catches massive ammounts of squid who swears against green, someone is this thread suggested that green are great for when they are timid, yet the most timid squid I ever encountered refused to take a green. who knows !!!!!!!!!
#37
Posted 29 January 2007 - 05:22 PM


#38
Posted 29 January 2007 - 06:43 PM
its doubt the jigs' colour matters at all
colour can be important and this has been demonstrated by scientific studies that have been carried out in order to maximise commercial squid catch rates. these studies normally involve hundreds of hours of squid fishing on automatic jigging machines so i would expect that the results would be fairly reliable.
cheers, glen
#39
Posted 31 March 2007 - 08:34 AM
http://www.stripercam.com
#40
Posted 11 April 2007 - 11:33 PM
Also, size also varies from season to season. In spring a large sizze. like 4.5, is good fished near the bottom. The adults are not so active in this season and don't seem to want to chase. In Autumn, a 3 or smaller is better and usuaully fished mid or top water. In autumn there asr a lot of squid but they are young and therefore small.
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