Eging Tips

Eging Tips

How to Choose Your Eging Day and Spot (Moon, Tides & Squid Behaviour)

Once you've sorted out your gear and you understand what to actually do on the water to catch aori squid, the next step ...
Eging & Shore Casting Tips

Catch Whiting on Soft Plastics: No Live Worms Needed

Have you had a good fishing life?In midsummer, a proper rocky shore is simply too hot to fish. So I spend a lot of summe...
Eging & Shore Casting Tips

Why Your Nikwax Isn’t Working (You’re Skipping the Green Bottle)

Have you had a good fishing life?Fishing happens outdoors, which means sooner or later you get caught in weather you did...
Eging & Shore Casting Basics

How to Replace Squid Jig Feathers (Egi Repair in 5 Minutes)

Have you had a good fishing life?The feathers on the tail of an egi are not decoration. They slow the fall, they steady ...
Eging & Shore Casting Tips

How to Clean a Saltwater Spinning Reel (Step by Step)

Have you had a good fishing life?A fishing reel is mostly metal, and most of that metal is small, precise and hidden. As...
Eging Tips

Squid Jig Cases Compared: Which One Should You Actually Buy?

Have you had a good fishing life?There are three common ways to carry egi: a sponge holder, a hook-holder, and a box. Th...
Eging & Shore Casting Tips

The Palomar Knot for Shore Jigging: Connecting Leader to Solid Ring

There are more fishing knots than anyone could ever memorise. Uni knot, nail knot, triple surgeon's, the various "fisher...
Eging Tips

How to Ikejime Aori Squid — and Make Okizuke, the Angler’s Own Dish

Here's something I believe is one of the real reasons eging exploded in popularity in Japan: aori squid (bigfin reef squ...
Eging Tips

Eging for Beginners: The 4 Essentials to Start Squid Fishing

Eging — lure fishing for aori squid (bigfin reef squid) — has exploded in popularity partly because it is so easy to get...
Eging Tips

Eging Gear Guide: 10 Items That Make Squid Fishing Better

Once you've got the four essentials, you can go eging. But "can go" and "going well" are different things — bringing you...