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I do not think I will ever dance to the tune of "Catch a Squid" but being an electrical engineer and a tinkerer, you have gotten my mind into low gear. These underwater lights (requiring a car battery) that have been mentioned earlier, are they to illuminate the area in general so you can see the squid or are they an attractor (or both?) Where I am headed is I had purchased a bunch of high intensity LED's to illuminate my pot buoys to prevent boaters from running into them at night but decided reflective tape would be less of a fuss. Thinking along the lines of small battery pack with one or more LED's in a sealed weighted jar. After looking at these China squid jigs it would be simple enough to attach a small LED clear container with batteries above the jig if the only function is that of being an attractor. Do not think it would be difficult to build a light directly into the jig itself. LED's are now dirt cheap (I know the price of LED devices sold does not reflect that but the LEDs themselves have drop drastically in price,) and they come not only in various levels of brightness but colors as well. In fact, single LEDs are available that go through a timed sequence of several colors have now hit the electronic surplus markets. Always thinking of a potential winter project to bide my time away but do not have a clue as to what is needed. My last brain storm of putting a lighted attractor in a lobster pot was a total disaster as all it did was attract enormous quantities of spider crabs. Checked with the Stonington wholesalers today, boats are still coming in with zero squid.
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