Squid

[Reckless]

  When you by squid from a market do you do anything with them? Do they get soaked in something? Or just cut them up and freeze them? I thought about letting the squid dry out then soak in gulp juice? Probably wouldnt smell to good though.

[IrishAyes]

I just freeze them and use as is. I would bet that some juice it up though. 

[mboy]

My pops soaks them in crab or bunker oil. He says he has noticed a difference.

[Skolmann]

I try to buy fresh squid and use them that day.

[Duffman]

I buy fresh at the Asian bait store.... I mean supermarket 
  Whatever I dont use that day I freeze whole. Thaw out next time out and cut into strips on the boat.  Put strips into a container with clean seawater. The seawater toughens the strips a bit and gets them a little whiter in color.
 I've tried soaking them in everything on the market, bunker oil, shedder oil etc and never noticed a difference.
 Notice I said "in clean seawater"  NOT the 2 stroke soaked stuff at your slip or launch ramp!!!

[IrishAyes]

Just an FYI. Maybe not all but a lot of the Asian Market's squid was frozen and thawed out when they display it. Hard to find actual fresh squid there.

[blynch]

Freeze and use

[Hunter 2]

Are you talking about the frozen boxes of squid in the freezer section of the super market?? 

[IrishAyes]

I get the 3 pound frozen boxes from the super markets and use them whole. I make up a double hook rig where the top hook slides so the bait runs true when hooked up.

The larger squid from the Asian markets, I strip out. To my knowledge, a lot of the Asian markets receive their squid frozen and thaw them out to put in the display cases. The one in PA has a sign on the display case stating, pre-frozen. They are not frozen at the time.

[Hunter 2]

 

[ped579]

Shop Rite has frozen squid, 3 pound box for $5.99 a box.

[wb]

I get the 3 pound frozen boxes from the super markets and use them whole. I make up a double hook rig where the top hook slides so the bait runs true when hooked up.

The larger squid from the Asian markets, I strip out.

 

Me too! The fluke really seem to prefer the LONGER strips gives them more to gnaw on.
Sometimes I strip out the smaller ones but usually whole.

[Pops Soul]

I have stripped up squid and soaked it in bunker oil, it was fine to use that day but after refrezzeing and thawing it ws REALLY NASTY SMELLING, couldn't stand to be on the same boat with the stuff....

[ped579]

You sure it was the squid...

[gagedylan]

i do it the way my father taught me. i buy the very large trolling squid. i strip them down, cut them into diamond shaped long strips, and i soak them in, of all things, fresh chopped garlic! i mean, everybody knows fish are italian, right? hey, sounds funny, but it really works. i dont use anything but garlice flavored sqiud, and i do very well fluking

[Reckless]

i do it the way my father taught me. i buy the very large trolling squid. i strip them down, cut them into diamond shaped long strips, and i soak them in, of all things, fresh chopped garlic! i mean, everybody knows fish are italian, right? hey, sounds funny, but it really works. i dont use anything but garlice flavored sqiud, and i do very well fluking

 Can I have some garlic bread with that please?
 

[mboy]

i do it the way my father taught me. i buy the very large trolling squid. i strip them down, cut them into diamond shaped long strips, and i soak them in, of all things, fresh chopped garlic! i mean, everybody knows fish are italian, right? hey, sounds funny, but it really works. i dont use anything but garlice flavored sqiud, and i do very well fluking

Why diamond and not pennant?

[ped579]

Tradition...

[IrishAyes]

Garlic?!?!?! You must be fishing in Little Italy! 

[wb]

Uwantishouldget a nice Chianti w/that?