Underwater squid lights - they're deadly

Squid. I don’t need to tell our readers what a fantastic asset they are. Just about essential, when chasing jewfish. Deadly on snapper. Preferred over everything else, by kings. Right now in Sydney we're experiencing a good run of kingfish inside the Harbour. If you can find squid, you will score a kingfish. If you can’t find squid, you won’t find kingfish. Kayden Dhyon found both last week:

Squid are so essential to kingfish success that a lot of big king specialists now spend the night before fishing on the water. That is, taking the sleeping bag and air mattress along. Why? Because squid are much easier to catch at night:

Squid - and the small fish they prey on – are attracted to light. Which is why commercial squid boats have giant lighting arrays:

Some of our clients are copying the technique – in a small way, of course. Here’s Craig Till showing some good ol’ Aussie inventiveness:

So these overnighter fishos drift under well lit bridges or whatever, and bag out on squid. In a way you never could, during the day. The downside being that for a lot of busy blokes it’s not easy to find time to spend a night – as well as most of the next day – on the water. What if there was an easier way??

Meet our new underwater squid light. An amazing bit of gear:

Here’s how effective green lights can be:

Specifications - and prices - on our lights are impressive:

First shipment only arrived last week so two nights later we headed down to Balmoral wharf about 9:00PM. I set the green LED squid light off the end and powered it up with one of our 12V 7AH batteries. After about 15 minutes there were hundreds of tiny baitfish slowly circling the light, with more arriving every minute.

Around the 30 minute point a couple of squid appeared, one of them big. I had my Yamashita jig set about 3 metres from the light. That one's caught a lot of squid but they ignored it. Instead, they charged through the baitfish cloud every minute or two. My squid jig was 2-3 times the size of the baitfish. We were gone in under an hour because it was pretty chilly and my wife was getting cold. I posted the videos to Facebook and our keener clients ordered straight away. Positive feedback arriving already:

Here’s how it works, for one of our canny clients:

Note that, in the unlikely you can’t find any fish with your live squid baits, the squid themselves make a delicious meal:

We’ve had an amazing response, with a lot of clients already aware of how deadly these lights are:

Like to try one? Here’s how:

1. go to

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type in $65, log in to your PayPal account and send me the money. It's PayPal, so it's easier and more secure than cash. Don’t have a PayPal account? That's OK. It's quick and easy to sign up. Price includes delivery;

2. Call with your credit card numbers and delivery address;

3. Email for our EFT details.

One last request, if not too much to ask? Let me know how you go. Squid have worked for us:

And I’m sure they’ll work for you too:

Thanks for reading
Andrew Hestelow

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