Giant Squid Rig

[zippyFX]

The giant squid has always been an interest to me.... i have a passing interesting in cryptozoology (not the bigfoot, chubacabra, nessy type of cryptozoology). I came across this diagram this morning and thought it would be useful for someone planing a fishing trip on the North Pacific off the coast of Japan.



See details at: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/...index.html

Though not a good quality fishing report the rig may be useful to someone

Though I don't understand why the pair of boots in diagram b is useful

My two cents:
- They obviously did not play the giant squid enough....
- They likely would have been better off using a a large reel (think Wicked Tuna) rather than trying to catch it on a Jug Line; Is there such a thing as Red Neck Japanese? From the culture that brought us advance fishing techniques for pressured waters like tengo rods and super cool floats for carp this seems like they have tried brain surgery with a sledge hammer.
- If they had used a reel they could have set the drag properly and played the fish for as long as it took. Like what are the odds it's break for cover and snaging the line at 1000 meters?
- Likely the biggest chance of a break off (the line not the tentacle) would be another tentacle cutting the line with the toothy part of a sucker from another tentacle.

I toyed with putting this under Article and Resources but I will leave that to MAs discretion.



Watching Wicked Tuna and Wicked Tuna North vs South is no substitute for real/reel fishing. sigh.....