How Squid React To Weighted vs Floating Jigs (Underwater Squid Fishing)
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 22. 07. 2024
- This is really cool underwater footage showing how squid attack two common types of lures used in Puget Sound squid fishing: weighted jigs and floating jigs. Based on this footage, I think I have a new favorite. Nothing I say is prescriptive, and I fully acknowledge that there are many ways slay fish. This is just my experience fishing for squid off a kayak on this particular day in Washington and it definitely has changed my ideas about how to catch squid.
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* Yo Zuri Floating Squid Jigs: amzn.to/396whjS
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This is probably one of the coolest videos I have ever watched. Squid are more aggressive than I thought. Fast, man they are fast. Thank you so much for this. Very cool. Huge like. Wow.
Thank you sooo much
@@SeaWolfFishing I agree. It is so cool being to watch what is going on underwater. I love watching that kind of footage. đđ
I've only been using those BM Otori jigs but looks like the squid get stuck on those yozuri jigs a lot better. Thank you for sharing this!
Yeah, I'm really liking the Yo-Zuri the more I use them :) Let me know if you end up trying them out and have a similar or different experience with them!
Very well done video thanks for the great content and a look into the under water reactions to the jigs.
Good stuff
Really interesting footage, I'm also a keen squidder from South Australia, I'm almost 60 and have notice how smart they've become since the 1960s, when I use to catch them using a peeled potato with a jig shoved through it. My mate uses only weightless jigs mainly because we do shore based squidding and to get the jig down deep enough you sometimes get snagged and lose the jig. We never use multiple jigs here though, I think i might give it a try. Thanks for the clip, very interesting
Amazing footage, squid are crazy creatures. Majestic
Yes they are! They're pretty spectacular and I love the patterns/colors.
This is my intro to this in any way whatsoever lol, as I got curious about how my calamari gets to the plate lol đ. Super weird experience but wow enlightening and fascinating, thanks for this!
Great video! Never knew how they attacked the lure or how super fast and aggressive they are! Wow! đđđđđđđđđ
Thanks đ Yeah they are super aggressive. I'm sure they'd attack anything really lol.
A very vivid capture of the squid against the lure
Never knew the roll like that to try and get free, for sure the swivel and horizontal presentation is the way to go. Awesome footage!
This is so cool! Thank you for making this video!
AWESOME footage!! Wow! Thank you so much for sharing!! đźđ
This is amazing! Thank you!
This was a sick video. Good job and great work
This is super helpful!
I am a weighted jig pitch fork holder. Haha.
If you go out on a squiding pier and watch people, you will see some people catching significantly more squid despite using similar jigs to their neighbor. Squiding efficacy is surprisingly very technique dependent.
For weighed jigs... You must actively jig upwards. If you are lackadaisical with your jigging, you will not effectively catch them. Once you hook one you also must maintain tension and reel them up.
IMO, this means you must use a fast action rod and impart a quicker upwards jig. Any additional weight means a squid and you furiously reel upwards. Any odd bump or lack of a bump from your jig reaching the end of the slack on the drop... Also means a squid and requires a quick upwards jig to "set the hook".
The most difficult part of squiding for beginners is identifying a squid that has attached momentarily to you jig. So perhaps in that sense the floating jigs will be more effective for them.
I know that having a GoPro on your line prevents more aggressive upwards jigging... But that really IMO is a requirement for effective use of the weighted jigs.
Interesting video regardless. I might throw a floating one on next time above my weighted jig to see how effective they are for my own eyes, haha.
I totally agree. The technique with weighed jigs is extremely important. I've caught more squid than I can hope to count using them. It's not that they're not effective, you just have to be very quick, have a good feel for what a squid hit feels like, and, like you said, maintain the tension while reeling up. The floating jigs are just more forgiving and don't require as much technique is why I would recommend them for beginners, but also they're my favorite because they just catch everything that even thinks about hitting. The weight of the GoPro definitely hindered my ability to feel squid hits and proper jigging, but I loved being able to see just how little time you have to react to a squid with the weighted vs the ridiculously long time the squid was stuck on with the floating jigs lol. You'll have to let me know how it goes for you if you test it out :)
No don't furiously reel, normal steady reel is safer because somethimes they only hook with one tentacle and it can snap. Also with normal reel you can hook another squid on the way up
Great video
Brilliant advice, many thanks
AWESOME footage
awesome!
i usually don't like underwater fishing footage, but this was actually really cool, and it confirms what i have always thought about how squid strike. im working on some new lures, and this has given me some ideas i want to tryout right now.
thanks for the awesome vid, you got my sub
Thanks for the great video from a newbe here in Seattle. Can you say when is the beginning and end of the "season" at the Point Defiance area your fishing?
Please keep the videos coming !
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Amazing squid fishing
So satisfied to see that, nice infođ.
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching!
Amazing video..i've watched so manny times...can you pls explain how did you attach go pro on main line and can you watch everything on your mobile app while you fishing so you can see when the squid strikes or only when you pull go pro out of the water..
Amazing, I liked fishing actually especially getting squids.
I use weighted squid lire for shore casting. And floating squids when on the boat.
That's smart. Yeah, the weighted are good for hucking out from shore but I really love the floating from boats too.
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" you have to be on top of your shit" did not expect that lol
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Nice video...very interesting....I love this video...
Never tried floating jigs before. I usually use regular lead weight jigs. Less line slack. Therefore every tug get noticed. Thanks for the vedio.
Right on! Yeah, I like the weighted ones too. The floating ones were a lot of fun though!
ohhh good to see them under how they respond
That underwater footage is so much fun!
Fascinating footage. Iâve been using my own floating rigs/paternoster rig for years here in Oz squiding in 50-70 foot of dark water. I find slow movement vertically and/or horizontally helps hook up rate and footage illustrates why.
Thanks so much! I found the same thing. The floating lures really only require slow movements. I'd love to make my own rigs at some point! Do you have any advice on that?
SeaWolf Fishing Really easy. Google dropper loops and/ or paternoster rigs. Then get a few feet of 8-10 lb fluorocarbon and tie three x three inch dropper loops a foot apart for your jigs and the sinker on the bottom. They donât need to be fancy or strong for squid.
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Very cool video, just what i have been looking for! Do you know if it works on the bottom fishing for flounders? or what might work
Thanks so much! For flounder, I usually drift and jig along the bottom with a soft plastic grub on a 1 or 1.5 oz jig head and tip the hook with a small strip of squid.
@@SeaWolfFishing Haha! I meant the camera mount idea :D
@@simonnissen5826 đ€Łđ€Łđ€Łđ€Łđ€Ł OMG yes, the camera mount would totally work for flounder. I keep thinking about taking it out on the Nisqually Flats for just that but haven't gotten around to it yet!
Excellent footage of probably the most unlucky squid ever... yamashita jigs go well too
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Somehow I missed this video. Holy smokes! What great footage and narration! Glad I can say I was watching your stuff when you had under 1k subs! đ
Thanks so much! This one was really fun to make.
Some great footage here. Saw your post on reddit so will toss you a sub. Thanks for the vid.
Thanks for the silver and the sub! Beautiful northen pike you're catching, I'll have to try it. I'll look to your channel for tips!
@@SeaWolfFishing Awesome, thanks. We started with kayak fishing. Just got into ice fishing. We have leanred a lot from the CZcams community - it has been fantastic for us so far. Looking forward to catching up on some of your older videos.
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I use floating jig 30 years ago I love your channel
They're really great! You're right, they've been around for a while. I'm not sure why more people don't use them :)
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Very nice video. I liked it because i love fishing.
Thank you very much. So glad we can connect with a shared love of fishing!
This must be a squid paradise
When the schools of squid move through it's pretty spectacular!
Hi great video, any idea how to find squid during the daytime?
Beautiful video, well done..I subscribed to your channel
Thank you very much!
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Great video would like to see more On the jigs
Thanks so much! I'm eager for more squid fishing as well!
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Love your videos
Thanks so much! It really means a lot to me that you're enjoying them :)
Im from up in Bellingham wa, and the only peir we have to fish from local is pretty shallow water, so I have yet to catch my first squid, lol. Lots of crab, flounder and kelp greenlings though.
@@outdoorloser4340 I love me some crab! Plenty of tasty bites to be had up there even without the squid :)
Awesome video!
Thanks! Squid are soooo much fun!
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Apollo seawood works great. I will have to try tying a swivel on it. Thanks.
Thanks for the tip! I haven't tried that lure. I'll have to look into them :)
Interesting. Never tried float jigs before. I will now.
They're definitely worth trying. I really like them!
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Thanks for the vote of confidence! Right now it's simply a fun way to share my love of fish and fishing :)
@@SeaWolfFishing I just ordered two of those jigs for $2.50 each. đ
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Thank you so much đ Squid really are beautiful!
How come squid rigs and jigs do not have barbed hooks or barbless conventional curved hooks? Does the squid feel it ? Great observation and understanding of how the squid reacts to various jigs by videoing underwater!!
Because they only pull back, and with barbed hooks it would be much much more difficult to pull them of in boat
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Have you done a comparison between these floating jigs and the double hook inline? I wonder if the double hook matters could explain the difference. Also? Could you try a bottom inline and a floating top? (Only been out a couple times so not a pro at all)
I noticed that, too. That the weighted jigs are single row of hooks, Floating are 2 rows. That may be the difference.
I thought about that afterwards. I don't have any of the double hook weighted inline ones so I don't have video of that but yeah it could make a difference. However, I don't think it would make them as effective as the Yo-Zuri even with double hooks because the swivel action of the Yo-Zuri on the loops is what prevents the squid from using leverage to twist off. They're just built very differently. I'll have to do another test with more gear at some point though.
@@SeaWolfFishing I do have some that I made but I don't know when I will get out again to try(with a camera).
â@@wannafishalure Yeah, same here. I'm not sure when I'll get out again this season, if at all. I just subscribed to your channel. I'll be the first to get all excited if you do get some comparison underwater footage this season. That would be very cool! I love nerding out on fish gear and videos lol.
@@SeaWolfFishing Appreciate the thoughts and look forward to more videos. Love the more scientific approach to looking at gear! May have to look at getting some floating jigs!
wheres this place ? :D
I use my heavy duty salmon rod since itâs long and salt proof, 4 weighted jigs , not too many tangles
I canât get over how many squid are in one place
Yeah, it's pretty cool! This species (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doryteuthis_opalescens ) are almost always in schools as opposed to some more solitary species around the world.
Hi Meg where is the location ? looks really good tho
nice video mam... hoping for more reactions from the squid
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed the squid :)
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That sea bed and water colour reminds me of freediving for scallops near Brixham in England.
Nice video and very informative! Looking forward to the next one.
Oh very cool! I've never done freediving. Snorkeling, yes, but freediving, no. How deep down do you find the scallops?
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I don't know if this is an equal test. The weighted jigs are single row of hooks, floating are 2 rows. That may be the difference. How hard was that squid to get off the Otari? But it does possibly show that the 2 rows of are better than 1.
That's a good idea Toni. I'd love to include some double hook weighted body jigs in another comparison! That could be a factor but I also think it would never be a truly equal test since the lures are so different in their design. The intent of the video was really just to compare the two most common types I see out there, but yeah it would be better with adding that third type. The double row hook weighted jigs may be more effective than the single row hook weighted jigs. I don't have any doubles though so I couldn't get video of that. The squid on the weighted hooks literally fall off the jigs when I tip them into my bucket because they're not really well hooked but the squid on the Yo-Zuri floating hooks take a lot of shaking and sometimes prying to get off the hooks. I think the design of the swivel on the Yo-Zuri is what makes them most effective since it prevents the squid from getting any leverage when they spin. Hopefully I'll get some double hook weighted body jigs to compare all three types at some point! I'd love to see some video of this. Have you done any comparison work with the double hook weighted jigs?
@@SeaWolfFishing No they never seemed to produce like the single row. I thought if I go out again I might try. I have seen them touch them (my jigs) and leave and then others, like I saw in your video, that touch it repeatedly. My thoughts on the weightless ones you use id they feel it give so they think it can be carried away. Whereas, the weighted ones have resistance so they aren't as enticing. Just a thought.
@@wannafishalure I think you're on to something there. The behavior of the floating jigs definitely mimicks bait fish behavior much more and is likely more attractive to begin with.
I like this video
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Thanks so much for watching! Good luck to you too in your squid fishing :)
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You have to be on top of your shit.... love the relatable lingo
Haha! Thanks!
No wonder weâve got no squid here you have them all.
There are lots of squids!!!
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Really helpful video! I live in Tacoma and this got me interested in squidding last season. I've only been fishing for the last 3 years and your advice about floating vs traditional jigs helped me catch a ton of squid. Thanks a lot.
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Can you say this is what is the time and this lure make light?
This was filmed during the daytime, about mid-morning. The footage is from about 70 feet depth below the surface so it is a little dark down there. The lures all have glow in the dark properties.
Fantastic footage, why do you fish the weighted ones upside down? We fish with the spikes at the bottom, dont you?
It's not actually upside down lol. The angle of the camera just might make it look that way kind of.
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I use both. With the weighted on bottom clearly
At my country right now is squit season..but we catch using 15000 w green light and net.by the way nice video and content
We use lights too for nighttime squid fishing but can also catch them during the daytime without lights when the season is good. I've got a few more months before squid season gets going again here.
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