Best squid jig colour Options

[glen]

hi calamarifreak. welcome to the forum!

[ru 12 mug]

Hi all, I reckon when full moon, the best colour is black. try it on if you hook on the biggest on, give me a big hug for sure ~

I think your right on the money with that comment as I used a brown shrimp hunter on the full moon last year and my mate used it the night before and it KICKED BUTT!!!
it out fished my other favourite colour jigs by 3 to 1 on both nights.
thats evidence enough for me.
mug

[bluewaterhunter]

hi calamari freak
i agree mate....dark browns with a hint of metalic tones do the job very nicely.

This whole thread is academic anyway because squid are color blind!!!
Cheers

Blue.

[ru 12 mug]

I'd say your right there BW as I use bright orange in the day time and they jump all over it and brown at night so they must be colour blind.
try this
your a squid laying in the water on a bright moonlit night and a dark prawn shape passes overhead.....what would you do????
nail it!!
makes good logic to me
mug

[pisces_australis]

The one that catches the Squid

[M4ttyboi]

I got a Yamashita 2.5 in a natural colour today and tried it out at Mt Martha and it seemed to attract mostly good sized ones but when i changed to a fluro one I only got little ones.
I'll be using natural colours from now on I recon.
At one stage I got 6 about 700g ones in 6 casts. Bloody Great Fun!!!

[glen]

you caught the whole school!! nice work!

[masejess33]

when the squid are on they will take anything.
ofcourse its better to use a glow jig at night or a bright jig in dirty water.

better jigs sink better and dart better but thats only if you jig them the way they are made to be jigged.
its like a knife, we dont use butter knifes to cut a steak......

use a jig the way it has been designed to be used and your catch rate will go through the roof, at the start i was a one or two squid man now 5 or 10 depending on how long i stay.
dont be scared to watch people and see what they do, or ask questions...
or youtube!!!

[Salty_Dog]

Great reply, i wish i knew how to use my jigs better....

There is nothing more frustrating than watching a squid swim to... and passed your jig.
And then you see another guy not even paying attention and he lands one.

Thats fishing i guess

This post has been edited by Salty_Dog: Jun 26 2010, 11:45 AM

[masejess33]

it really is that simple, no point having a $30 jig if you cant use it.
same as rods, people go get a $400 squid rod and cant ever use it how it is designed to be..
day in day out i see the same guys and girls fishing for squid.
most will get a few but some get nothing..
i have lost count how many times i have been fishing and guys and girls come up and say how they fished here for a week and not got anything.
then you watch them fish and you can see why.

i know because i was one of them a few years ago.

[trewy]

i think that the yo zuri shrimp hunters work the best in pink colour but no need for expensive jigs.hi glen im new to this website but i live in mt martha to.may i ask where you catch most of your squid in this area.

[glen]

hey there trewy. i can't remember the name of the street but there is a pumping/drainage thing in a cyclone fence square cage near the path down to the water ....if you know the area you probably know what i mean.

cheers, glen