How To: Make a Soft Bait Squid (Squidbert)

We filmed this while jigging over big schools of bluefish off Gay Head. We were jigging with a “Sand Eel” colored 3.5oz…

White and other light colored pencil poppers have been effective during the early morning topwater bite between the car bridges, mainly due to the big squid that sometimes have tubes up to 10 to 12-inches long, with some sharpies also super loading Cotton Cordell pencils with as much as four to six ounces of lead to make them swim subsurface.

Vertical jigs are an excellent way to target fish holding in deep water. They are effective on nearly all species…

Video: How To Fish Floating Soft Baits   The Hogy Floating Series was designed to be a true topwater soft…

Introduced in 2011, the Hogy Sand Eel Series has become an anglers favorite for finicky stripers feeding on sand eels….

Video: Slow and Low Soft Bait Retrieve   The slow and low retrieve is ideal when used with soft baits….

Video: How to Rig Topwater Soft Baits Explosive strikes and adrenaline rushes, experienced anglers know that’s what topwater fishing is…

Video: How to Rig Midwater and Deepwater Soft Baits There are multitudes of ways to rig soft baits regardless of…

I will start by telling you I am no expert, no one taught me how to jig for squid so…

Capt. Mike Hogan searches for stripers and blues at Halfway Shoal and Middle Ground in this Salty Cape video fishing report.

Watch Capt. Mike Hogan use a light tackle lead core outfit to jig’n troll striped bass off Tom’s Shoal near wasque. Capt. Mike was fishing the (1) humps in slight deeper water and dropping back to target the Captain Saw on the fish finder.

Capt. Mike Hogan explains how to rig the Hogy Sand Eel in order to imitate the sand eels that are commonly found in numbers throughout the Cape Cod area.

With waters finally reaching 50 degrees in Nantucket Sound this week, Capt. Larry Backman decided to take F/V Skipjack out on Wednesday afternoon for his first squid trip of the 2016 season, finding a few nice pockets of squid in the process.