Squid Jigging
Squid Jigging is carried out on very specialised boats at night. Powerful lights illuminate the water, attracting the squid which gather in the shaded area under the boat. Dropped along the sides of the boat are lengths of line with lures set at short intervals. These are set through a pulley arrangement and automatically jigged up and down. When the machine controlling the line senses that the strain in the line has gone above a certain point the line is hauled in.
The hooks on the lure do not contain any barbs so that as the lures are recovered over the end rollers, the squid fall off into collecting areas.