squid season

[kenflyfish]

Hi, i know winter is the best season for squid but is there anyone who has got squid already? i'm thinking of going to shorncliffe to see if they are already there.

[hooked_on_trout]

reports of small squid over that way ATM.

might be a bit early but a good sign.

[Enormoss]

gday bud,was out there at shorny pier castin 4 live bait last friday night and got 2 really small squid in the net. dosent look like there is to much around there at moment.plenty of bait fish and a few smallish prawns mainly. at bribie about a month ago late at night i seen some guy pulling up a few really big ones off the bridge about 4th pylon out from island side with squid jigs and glow stiks. good luk mate. cheerin

[Angus]

Looking forward to it!

Got some new Egi to try. Love a fresh feed of squid!

ANgus

[rayke1938]

Write up on squidding in April Bush n Beach.

Cheers

Ray

[kreel]

Angus wrote:

Looking forward to it!

Got some new Egi to try. Love a fresh feed of squid!

ANgus

Gus, I wonder if you or Kevin could just explain the term "Egi" for the uninitiated.

[Angus]

Kreel:

Much to most peoples misunderstanding an Egi is the jig, not the squid. Its a Japanese word. Hence to go "Egging" is to go jigging, not squidding As per precise translation).

In Japanese "Eka" is the squid.

I am under the assumption that as Japan (or in some cases China under the guise of Japan) makes such a massive portion of the global squid jig market, "Egi" is a fairly universal word for "jig".

Hope that makes sense.

Angus

[kreel]

Most illuminating, thank you for taking the time to write your reply.

[rosco1974]

mate there has been big squid over the rous channel for months now but by the sounds of it u are land based bugger

cheers rosco

[kenflyfish]

Angus wrote:

Kreel:

Much to most peoples misunderstanding an Egi is the jig, not the squid. Its a Japanese word. Hence to go "Egging" is to go jigging, not squidding As per precise translation).

In Japanese "Eka" is the squid.

I am under the assumption that as Japan (or in some cases China under the guise of Japan) makes such a massive portion of the global squid jig market, "Egi" is a fairly universal word for "jig".

Hope that makes sense.

Angus

Yes, egi is Japanese word. In Japanese, it's written as 餌木, 餌 means "bait", 木 means "wood". So egi means bait made from wood.

[Angus]

Cool ken I didnt know that.

So based on a friendly lesson I had last night regarding the nature of Japanese symbols...

Does 餌 sound out as "E"?

And 木 as "Gi/Gee"?

Cheers.

Angus

[Cowfish13]

I thought with Kanji it wasn't the individual symbols that sounded out the word (like with say English, or in Japanese, hiragana or katakana). So wouldn't it need both symbols to actually resemble the word Egi?

This is just going off 4 years of primary school Japanese so it could be way, way off (and probably is)

[kenflyfish]

Angus wrote:

Cool ken I didnt know that.

So based on a friendly lesson I had last night regarding the nature of Japanese symbols...

Does 餌 sound out as "E"?

And 木 as "Gi/Gee"?

Cheers.

Angus

Yes Angus, you're right. So Eging is 餌木ing, it's Japanglish.

[Cowfish13]

Didn't think I was right haha. I never did pay attention in that class

Back to the original question. Give it two weeks to a month and they'll start firing up. There's a few over near Moreton Island at the moment so once the water clears up and gets a bit cooler inshore, they should start moving in.

[Travis]

Had a few reports of a heap off scarb reef

[Davo_Dinkum]

ika = squid .

ika is the spelling .

the tree symbol = ki.

got my father inlaw to look .

he has spoken,read ,write Japanese for about 20 years.

[Angus]

Yeah they are around alright.

Last weekend Henry and I hit the mouth and had heaps following. Henry ended up changing his pastic to a jig and nailed couple.

They were also so thick they turned up in the cast net at the Pinkenba ramp!

Angus

[jeff f]

this bit of a cool change should bring them in

[Scope]

Have been getting the odd one in the net even down near bulimba. Should be good news for all those aspiring for fotm. Squid make dynamite jewie bait

[Master Sardines]

rosco1974 wrote:

mate there has been big squid over the rous channel for months now but by the sounds of it u are land based bugger

cheers rosco

Only if ppl knew how big these are! A friend of mine was there last week and gave me some, AWESOME... I believe their called tiger squid, i could be wrong and it wouldn't be the first time. The big ones are there if you know where to go.

[Gad]

jeff f wrote:

this bit of a cool change should bring them in

agree..over the years leading up to Anzac day and a week or 2 after we seem to get a cooler weather pattern come through, that brings on the squid in reasonable numbers for a while.

A spot north of Brisbane for land based fisho`s that often fires at this time is the area between Bongaree jetty and the little bridge on Wesley Parade on Bribie Island.

[shannon]

hey .i went to shorncliff there isnt any sign at the moment...not sure if there evr was..haha...the jetty is really clean with no signs of a squirt of ink..

[straddiebrad]

just got back from amity and landed 15 squid good size too,i put them in the freezer for a offshore trip in winter,so they are there.brad

[wayneswh]

I have been catching huge squid south of tangalooma as of late, they have been chasing the whiting on the line and all i have been doing is putting a bucket behind them and letting them swim into it as they try and get away, seems to be a few over there

[Travis]

Not much action up redcliffe way yet either, few reports on scarb reef but thats it

[Old Scaley]

Lots of big squid & cuttlefish swimming on the surface among the floating weed in the shipping lane out the front of the river today. A few small squid chasing bait and lures as well.

[rosco1974]

plenty over the rous,got 8 yesterday a mate got 14 there as well,

[Damien2Rad]

Had one grabbing my plastic today. He just didn't grab it good enough.

This was just near the Bananananana Banks.

Sucks too cos there's a brand new squid jig sitting here next to the computer, but not one in my tackles box.