We usd to do just about the same when we were kids.Illahee city dock was our squid hole .Still live a few blocks away.We used toss a frozen herring on a drop line with just a #8 or so bait hook through the head.Eventualy one would grab it and we would slowly pull the two in untill the prey was close enough to scoop up with a trout net.Spent hours on our knees playing this game.

Back then there ws nobody working this dock.They would laugh like hell if I went down and re-enacted that show now.They start showing up around three in the afternoon to secure there spots now a days.

We used to make our own jigs with pencill lead and piano wire.To finish it off we just used a wrapping of white waterproof medical tape.Used to fill buckets in short order.

They are damn good eating.I remember me and dad up late cleaning a couple of buckets and my dad getting a bright idea and microwaving one.You could of patched an inner tube with what came out of the micro.You had t be there I guess.

I still have a box of squid jigs.I think I am going to have to pull them out of mothball