Squid Jigging Campbell River/ Courtenay

[eriks]

Pescador
What do they look like from the pier? Is the water surface different or what? I have a few of those jigs and am also very interested to try it out. I thought that in the Seattle area, it's mostly something done in the winter and spring evenings.

 

[pescador]

They're generally in schools, but, can be in small groups. Hard to explain how they look from a pier other than you can certainly distinguish what they are if you have knowledge from previous experience. I have seen them in the Spring at Brentwood, but, I understand that in some parts of the world December/January are key months.

 

[trophywife]

we would get them on quadra within a couple weeks either side of july 1

 

[AlGee]

Winter Harbour, July 1992 was a big year for mating opalescent squid, I guess you'd call it a bumper crop. I used to jig squid from the float at the Co-op fish plant with the guys who worked there. You dare not wear your best clothes to this outing! We had a laugh and a half along with a few beers and a squid feed afterwards. I used to quick fry with onions and garlic, go HOT with peanut oil and get them off the heat after 2 minutes, any longer and they turn into little chewy things. Then may as well add a can of tomato sauce and garlic and leave for 3 hours for a marinara.
One night some kids jigged up a big skate and put it in the fish plant icehouse. There are lots of other animals eating these things besides us.

 

[greensasquatch]

Have been looking for squid, mostly Comox Marina, with no luck. Has anyone spotted any in the area near the docks or shore this season?