Hi all, I am planning to go for some AJs. Never tried before, so i need help. I was going to troll some whole (dead) squid. Any hotspots (in the south), type of bottom i should be looking for, depths, or different lure I should be using.
squid must be fresh as possible.
possibly try catching some early morning hours or else some sawrella.
depth - on reef edges varying from 20-40 mtrs.
hotspots - hotspot is the name of a small shop selling pastizzi in birzebbuga!
So there it is ... i buy squid from rita in marsaxlokk and pastizzi from bbugia...
;D
le vera toxic!
in fishing it gets to no sense if you know exactly places where to go!
it is more fun if you scout other fisherman and also experiment your own way which will make you feel the most fun of it!
fishing is a wonderful neverending learning experience.
true ... but I wouldn't like to go through the summer without eating my own catch:) so i am planning to catch one than experiment
AJ trolling is usually done with weights to get the bait down to around 20-30m which is the area that AJ like to strike. You need to go dead slow....and all I can say in terms of advice is follow the other boats doing the same thing. You will find them outside freeport and near Filfla.
As I don't do it myself I'm not sure what classifies itself as a good spot, but I imagine ridges and drop offs. In terms of how they rig up, not exactly sure but the Predapro might help for fresh dead bait.
following your advice was looking at nav charts and i think i will try xghajra .. there is a small drop ... it seems that an msella, sicca strip, vopa [live] or a metal lure, are the best from research done till now. next sat i will leave some alongi in the sea hoping to get an aj. so now i need to find some msell! Msell HELP anyone??
If you have a good fishfinder I believe you can see the AJs although I dont have experience how then look on fishfinder.
Imsell is out of season my friend.
so i though since all posts on the subject are september dated...
spitec that is not exactly correct. I am catching like 3 the most imsell everytime i am going out for toxictuna that will be more than enough even if u can only catch 1 imsella means 1 aj if it is passing by.
Plenty of small imsell around ;)
But aren't they toooooooo small to catch,they are smaller then a biro?
msell and MartinB: Absolutely correct, there are alot of msell around, especially on the west coast, area uppwards of Fomm ir-Rih!!!. And they're not small, I'd say they are the right size to troll for AJ's
There are various sizes, ive seen as small as a toothpick almost invisible and ive seen the good size ones
Great news than mates,I will start preparing for them.I love catching them.Sorry for my post but the only once I seen were as small as a toothpick!
Dont worry my friend
so where does one get an msella? Any hotsposts (barra tal-pastizzi ta' bbugia) or pointers - ideally nearby of mscala ( i remember i used to see some on the old Jerma breakwater, i wonder if there are any more today)
if you go trolling, i saw a lot near the hofriet pens. there are some there. if you go for them extremely small hooks are essential. they are fun to catch
barra tal pastizzi xi mara bil bikkini taqbad bhalissa jew xi skater :P
thanks for the info mate... will give it a shot near the hofriet salt pens then
not salt pens... the tuna pens
Also on the sikka of B'Bugia or near tal-mara...but I think it's to early trolling for imsell in June...It surprise me that someone saw some of a good size! ???...Well...that's good! ;)