In this web site,I have insisted that anglers on shorereef should wear shoes for shorereef.
This article is about that shoes for shorereef.
Especially,I will explain“Which shoe for shorereef is better,shoes with spike or felt?”
They have advantages and disadvantages.
The difference by types of shoe sole
There are about 3 types of shoe sole,spike,felt and felt spike.
I explain each them below.
Characteristics of spike shoes type
A spike shoes is shoes for shorereef that many spikes stand out from gum sole.
There is a bit differences from pins material,pins form of pins,form of sole,
but caracteristics of spike shoes is that contact area is very smallandgrip power is very strong.
So,on rugged or weeded or wet shore reef ,you can walk safety by the spikes grip power.
Put another way,on very smooth shore reef,spikes can not catch hold of shore reef .you fall down shore reef.
Summarize brief,
spikeshoes is suit rugged shore reef well,butis not suit smooth shore reef or embankment or boulder beach.
about pins material
Pins usualy is made from stainless.
Stainless pins is strong ,but there is more suit material.
I recommend shoes with tungsten steel pin.
Tungsten steel resistant to high surface pressure and has strong grip power.
In shoes for shore reef made in Japan,I think that this shoes is best.
have you ever fishing aplysia when you are squid fishing ?
This article is not about aplysia….about “you can see internal condition of the sea by bacatch”
What is aplysia?
For the time being,I will introduce aplysia for those who feel what is aplysia?
「I’m aplysia」
Aplysia belong to a group of clam.
Veryr Roughly, aplysia is clam have shell in their body.
For fishing,
This aplysia
eat a lot of seaweed
often live in area which is good passage of seawater.（enclosed bay etc.）
in spring, move to shallow and spawn in seaglass bed.
Don’t you think that thier is like condition that squid spawn?
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Habitat of aplysia and area of squid spawn
Aplysia get together on below area around february to june.
seaglass bed on reef area area of goog passage of seawater. enclosed bay which is almost not entered by kingfish or amberjack or yellowtail.
these area is like area of squid spawn.
Because aplysia is not around every corner,they are appropriate mark for thinking of bottom condition.
That is why,if you fishing a aplysia when you are squid fishing,don’t feel gross but think that catching aplysia suggest that that area is good for squid fishing in spring.
A area where you catch some aplysias is good for squid fishing in spring.
（Oh, my bad. sorry）
Summary of”Aplysia is useful for guess where squids spawn”
Aplysia live in seaglass bed on reef area or area of good passage of seawater.
This conditions is the same as the conditions of the area of squids spqwn.
If you are fishing a aplysia when you are squid fishing, it may be a chance that you catch the big squid.
Thank you for watching until the end.
I tried to write an article written in Japanese as English.
I am in poor English, but I would like to translate my Japanese articles into English little by little.
People who can not stand up to update can see other pages in Japanese.
A colleag ask me” I want to get squids this year for sure!For that,I watch movie of squid fishing on youtube.
How to fish many squids？”
I listen to his story.
He overlook critical point that it is most important that squid jig sink with stable posture in squid fishing.
Lately,I often hear 〇〇jerk ,but have never heard 〇〇sinking. Jerk is for enchant the squid in squid fishing.
Actually squid is on hook while squid jig is sinking.
So,Jerk is of course important,but sinking the squid jig is more important.
That is why, I explain why stable sinking is important and How to stabilize squid jig in this article.
squid fishing movie my colleague watched
By the way,My colleague watch this movie on youtube.
They are members of famous fishing team of squid fishing in Japan.
Dedicated rods and squid jig for this strong jerk are also on sale.
Flankly,I do not know until ask why fall is important…..
But,What I find out while fishing watching squids is that squid escapes when he sees a strange sinking: shaking or unstable.
Somewhat large squids also escape.
Honestly,I caught first squid a year after when I started squid fishing.
At that time,looking at the movement of squids…
Squids come squid jig doing zigzag action……
Squids watching squid jig from bit away while squid jig stop…
When squid jig twitched ,squids take distance…
When squid jig is swayed by swell,squids do not take distance….
Why????
I repeated it many times.
Anyway,When squid jig twitch unnaturally,squids don’t approach to squid jig being alert.
After that,I stabilize suquid jig and could caught squids.
That is why,stability and posture of squid jig sinking is most important thing in squid fishing.
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How to stabilize squid jig sinking
Squids very often attack squid jig when squid jig is sinking or staying.
You should be careful when you are waiting squid’s bite.
The more you are concentrate,the more you grip the fishing lod strongly.
So,the fishing lod is shaked,and squid jig twitch.
If you have never catch squids,you should hold the fishing lod lightly when you are waiting squid’s bite.
If you conscious of just stopping squid jig,squids may be catched suprisingly easily.
posture of squid jig
Though you don’t have to care to that extent,squids change the reaction by the posture of squid jig.
It is very useful that you know that.
In short,squids change the reaction by Whether posture of squid jig.
In short,sometimes squids react only to leaning squid jig, and sometimes squids react only to horizontal squid jig.
So,if you feel that there is no attack by squids,
When you try to change the posture of squid jig, sometimes squids suddenly start to attack to squid jig surprisingly.
Squid jig take horizontal posture when you pull the line upward
or
take leaning posture when you remove the line tension.
I write the behavior of squid jig in tension fall (oblique sinking)or in free fall(vertical sinking).
The behavior of squid jig in tension fall
“Tension fall” is what you sink the jig oblique with stretching line.(Maybe,I think this term is Japanese:Janglish)
Because PE line float in seawater,PE line sink in the sea from above the squid jig.
In this state,if line tension increase straining line,direction of line tension that transmitted to squid jig from leader line is to front upper side.
（Line tension,Direction of sinking）
When you strain the line ,combining line tension with force of sinking,squid jig sink and come to front side as like picture above.
After you cast the line and sink the squid jig without line tension , you jerk and sink the squid jig with tension fall….
The squid jig move as like this.
Tension fall is good for feeling reaction by squid and control the squid jig,
Tension fall is bad for sinking squid jig speedy.
The behavior of squid jig in free fall
Free fall is what you sink the jig vertical with almost no line tension.(Maybe,I think this term is Japanese too)
In free fall , line tension that transmitted to squid jig from leader line is almost none.So,squid jig sink almost vertical.
（Direction of sinking）
Because squid jig do not come too front,you can search squids in small steps.
Squid fishing in winter has come to full swing in Japan, and I sometimes heard the fishery of big squid these days.
There are many kinds of Egi around the world. Squid jig was invited in Japan. Squid jig has almost always feathers in Japan.
Today, I introduce why does Squid jig has feathers and What will happen if the feathers get out.
The role of egi feathers
Many things are said about the role of feathers on Squid jig.
Some professional eginger say “The feathers are useless,so tearing away!!”,other professional angler say “The feathers are important, So let’s repair!”
Which is right???
Thank you for watching until the end.
I tried to write an article written in Japanese as English.
I am in poor English, but I would like to translate my Japanese articles into English little by little.
People who can not stand up to update can see other pages in Japanese.
Thank you.
It is often said that squid jig has feathers….
To balance sinking
To resemble shrimp and bait
To sink slowly
To adjust zigzag movement
To position to cling near the hook
and so on.
I would like to verify these one by one.
Incidently,squid jig with no feathers are also sold in Japan.
To balance the squid jig sinking
When one of the feathers was used,squid jig moved zigzag action as usual,but squid jig sink in the water with bad balance.
When I removed remaining feather , squid jig sink in the water with good balance.
Although the feathers are recieved heavy presure,I think that squid jig without both feathers sink in the water slowly.
That’s why, I think that the feathers have the role of to balance ,but the feathergs don’t have the role to slow down the sinking speed.
To resemble shrimp and bait
Privatly, I doubt this role.
Because I have caught squid with squid jig without feathers.And when I see staying squid jig ,It looks like just squid jig not a shrimp or a bait.
Squid jig without feathers looks more like a shrimp or a bait.
To stop momentum of zigzag action
I doubt this role too .
What influences the momentum of zigzag action is the form of body.Especialy, the head of squid jig influence the momentum of zigzag action.
When the squid jig has almost rod-like spindle shape,this bounce quickly to zigzag.
When the squid jig has chubby style,this bounce slowly and finely zigzag action.
I think that squid jig feathers don’t infuluence the momentum of zigzag action.
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To position to cling near the hook
I think that squid jig feathers are in order to make the squid cling near the hook.
I don’t know the reason why squid avoids feathers.
The reason why squid avoids feathers may be….
Although squids bite the neck when you are Squid fishing with live bait, squids bite the back half of the squid jig when you are to fish squids.
I guess this is because squids avioid feathers.
Squids bite the neck When you are squid fishing with egi without one feather.
But, the other side, feather is with squid jig. So, Squids do not bite the neck.
Squid jig with both feathers is bited the back half of the squid jig,as shown in the picture below.
When I checked all my squid jigs,This was the case for most of the bited squid jigs.
Since the only inference, Please check the bited point with your own eyes.
Therefore、the squid jig feathers plays a big role to position to squid’s cling near the hook.
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