DUEL - SQUID JIG "PICCA" 80mm A1862 SQUID HOOK SQUID BAIT

DUEL Squid Jig "Picca" 80mm A1862

Picca is a cloth-wrapped sutte, not an egi. An egi is cast and jerked back; a sutte is a cloth bait fished vertically under a boat, hung off a dropper branch above an ika-metal jig or lead sutte. DUEL builds this one around a fish-shaped body and a tinsel wrap, and describes the effect as the illusion of a schooling baitfish — flash rather than bulk. At 80 mm and 5 g it is the slim, light option in DUEL's cloth sutte range: the one for clear water, bright deck lights and squid that have seen a lot of tackle. A flash eye, an anti-twist swivel and DUEL's Y2 Trick Hook crown complete it, across sixteen colours.

Picca or Pucca? The names are one letter apart and the two baits do opposite jobs. Picca (A1862) is 80 mm and 5 g: slim, fish-shaped, tinselled — flash and a small silhouette. Pucca (A1860 / A1861) is 75 mm at 5.5 g or 90 mm at 8 g, plump and high-buoyancy, pushing water and holding posture in current — volume and vibration. Clear water, slack tide and cautious squid favour Picca; stained water, running tide and squid wanting a bigger target favour Pucca. Squid boats carry both and swap them on the same rig until one gets bitten.

Key Features

• Cloth sutte in one size: 80 mm, 5 g
• Fish-shaped body with a tinsel wrap for schooling-baitfish flash
• Flash eye and an anti-twist swivel built into the head
• Y2 Trick Hook stainless crown — opens under load to release a snag, then returns to shape
• Sixteen colours in four families: luminous, UV keimura, blue luminous and non-glow silhouette

How To Fish It

• Rig it as a dropper — Tie Picca to a 30–50 cm branch off the main leader, with an ika-metal jig or lead sutte at the bottom. The jig finds the depth; the sutte sits above it in the strike zone.
• Shake, stop, hold — At the counted depth, shake the rod tip in small fast movements for two or three seconds, then stop dead. Squid come on the stop; hold it five seconds before shaking again.
• Match the colour to the hour — DUEL splits the sixteen colours by job: luminous from daytime into the night, UV keimura for pressured squid and shallow water, blue luminous when bites stall after sunset, and the two non-glow silhouette colours (SIR, SHBL) for deep water where a hard outline beats a glow. Charge the luminous cloth under a torch for twenty seconds before each drop.
• Feel, then lift — A squid on the dropper feels like the rig has gained weight, or gone light. Lift smoothly and wind under constant tension; the crown has no barbs, so slack loses squid.

Target Species By Region

• Southeast Asia — Candat sotong night trips for bigfin reef squid (sotong torak) and cuttlefish (sotong katak) off Terengganu, Pahang and Johor, among the baitfish drawn to the boat lights.
• North America — Market squid down the pilings at lit California piers and harbour walls after dark.
• Japan & East Asia — Kensaki-ika and yariika on ika-metal and omorig rigs in the Sea of Japan, and on the same rigs in Korea and Taiwan.
• Australia, Middle East & Europe — Southern calamari over seagrass in South Australia and Tasmania; European squid and cuttlefish on Mediterranean night marks.

Specifications

Colour codes — luminous: LRH, LRM, LRY, LM, LMO, LRYZ. UV keimura: KVUH, KVUP, KVRH, KVOZ. Blue luminous: BLYU, BLBH, BLRZ, BLMZ. Non-glow silhouette: SIR, SHBL. SKU prefix 30A1862.

Recommended Pairing

• Ika-metal or omorig rod of roughly 5'6" to 6'6" with a soft solid tip
• Small spinning or baitcast reel, PE 0.4–0.6 braid, 8–12 lb fluorocarbon leader
• An ika-metal jig or lead sutte of 15–40 g at the bottom, chosen for depth and current
• Run Picca on one branch and a Pucca on the other to test flash against volume