2010 SQUATTERIE SQUID STORY

SQUID PATTERNS 2011 HERE ARE A GROUP OF DIFFERENT STYLES TO MAKE SQUID PATTERNS. THE TOP PATTERN FOR THE PAST FEW YEARS HAVE BEEN MY TUBE SQUID AS SEEN HERE. THIS PATTERN IS WORKING ALL OVER NORTH AMERICAN WATERS FOR FRESH AND SALT WATER SPECIES ALIKE! LAKE TROUT, ROOSTERFISH, HALIBUT, RED SNAPPER, GROUPER, TARPON, MARLIN AND MANY OTHER SPECIES EAT THIS STYLE OF FLY (NOT REALLY A FLY), BUT TIED ON MY VISE NONE THE LESS!!! GOOGLIE EYES ADD A CLICKING NOISE THAT THE FISH OBVIOUSLY CAN NOT STAND, AND THE RABBIT STRIPS AND FLASH ADD A MOVEMENT LIKE NO OTHER LURE/FLY/FISH CATCHER OUT THERE. TIED ON A 3/8 INCH TUBE THAT SUPPORTS UP TO 300LB MONO.

I HAVE USED THIS TUBE SQUID LAST YEAR IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN (SQUATTERIE/TREE NOB, STEPHEN'S ISLAND) FOR COHO AND CHINOOK, WE LITERALLY CAUGHT OUR LIMIT WHILE THE OTHER BOATS WERE CIRCLING US, ASKING WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE YOU GUYS USING?!?! ONLY PROBLEM WAS, I MADE IT IN TH TRUCK ALONG THE 4 HOUR RIDE TO THE DOCK, THERE WAS ONLY ONE, IT WAS MOSTLY WHITE WITH A TRACE OF PEACH. WE WERE GETTING A FEW BITES LIKE EVERYONE ELSE, IT WAS SLOW!! WHILE WE CHANGED FROM A CUTPLUG HERRING TO AN ANCHOVY ON ONE DOWNRIGGER, IT GAVE US 2 COHO IN THE BOAT. I CONVINCED THE OTHER LADS TO ALLOW ME PUT ON THIS SQUID THAT HAD FINISHED DRYING FROM THE NIGHT BEFORE. RIGGED WITH 30LB MAXIMA LEADER, TANDEM HOOK TIED, 4 FEET BEHIND THE FLASHER... ONE COHO AFTER ANOTHER, CHINOOK, IT WAS UNREAL! (THE FISHERY OFFICERS WERE SUSPICIOUS OF US HAVING MANY SALMON ON BOARD WHILE THE OTHER20-30 BOATS WERE COMPLAINING).THEY LEFT, AND WE CONTINUED TO TROLL AWAY FROM THE PACK OF BOATS, DOWN THE INSIDE WEST SHORE OF STEPHEN'S ISLAND. AT ONE POINT WE REELED IN A COHO ON ONE TANDEM HOOK, AND A ROCKFISH ON THE OTHER! THIS WAS JUST THE BEGINNING...

WE DECIDED TO SLIDE IT ONTO A SPREADER BAR AND JIG WITH IT... 2-RED SNAPPER--, 2-CHICKEN HALIBUT(UP TO 20LBS), ROCKFISH, THINGS I HAVE NOT SEEN BEFORE, A 40LB OCOTPUS!!!, AND FINALLY AT 188 FEET ON A HUMP I HAD SOMETHING PLAY WITH IT THAT WAS CHEWING IT... I WAITED SO LONG THAT MY BUDDIES WERE ABOUT TO TAKE MY ROD FROM ME. I FINALLY REELED DOWN, SET THE HOOK, AND IT BARELY MOVED, PULLED 3 TIMES THAT ALMOST TOOK ME INTO THE SOUP, AND ON THE 4TH PULL, MY MAIN LINE SNAPPED... I WAS DEFEATED, BUT IN SUCH A PROUD WAY THAT I WAS ACTUALLY IN A GREAT MOOD... WHO GETS TO BUILD/TIE UP THINGS LIKE THIS, (27 YEARS OF TYING UNDER MY BELT) AND LITERALLY FOOL A WIDE VARIETY OF SPECIES WITH YOUR OWN CREATION??? I DO, I AM VERY PROUD, SOMETIMES THE FLY ANGLERS DO NOT LIKE SOME OF MY DIFFERENT STYLES, BUT THEY WORK, AND TO ME THAT IS ALL THAT MATTERS.

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