Hey everyone,
It's officially the spookiest month of the year, October! Why October? Because they're already bringing out the Christmas decorations!
St Leonards continues to provide awesome land-based calamari with big females breeders and nice sized males!
Fishing October 1/10/2020, Sunny day on the rising/high/dropping tide into the NW/NE winds early evening.
Calamari #1, within 5 minutes of casting into the wind/current and using that movement to drift across the weed I hooked up using the red head/white body jig! This jig is killing it right now!
Calamari #2, the wind snapped from the NW to the NE as the tide went slack and it was time to take advantage of that! I used a slow action, high whips moving the higher in the water column and then a slow slow sink taking up slack every few seconds. Whack! We're on!
Calamari #3, same action with the slow sink is too tempting for these gals and guys, they're aggressively hitting it on the sink.
Calamari #4, biggest one of the day bang on 28CM. Took the jig pretty close to the pier, when I get within 10m of the pier I add a few gentle hops which seems to win over those hesitant squid. That transparent photo is my favourite of the day.
Finished up calling it quits by 4:30PM, fished about 2 hours. Friends caught another 4 when a group moved in, two big ones 25CM+ and two smaller! I might try and get a few hours into next week. Fresh calamari can't be beat! Ended up keeping 2 fresh for today, freezing two.
