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Quote:A curiosity question for all.  What are your favorite brand and style of jigs?

 

 Well my hands down favorite jigs are the Yamashita Naory RH series of jigs in size 1.8B or occasionally the smaller 1.5B. Colors orange, pink, and green although one of my favorites, a clear/white holographic one has been discontinued. I also like the white with a red head. These are expensive jigs, but well worth the money to me. I should also say I am mostly a dock/pier squidder, and these work well for me in that environment. Now that I've made an answer perhaps others will chime in with their favorites.

For anyone with a boat, good schools of squid and mackeral are hanging out at coxes ledge (roughly 41 05 x 71 07).  Plenty of wales and porpoise eating on them, and gbft were caught there last weekend (and may still be around).

 

Not hyannis, but not 60 miles either.

Quote:For anyone with a boat, good schools of squid and mackeral are hanging out at coxes ledge (roughly 41 05 x 71 07).  Plenty of wales and porpoise eating on them, and gbft were caught there last weekend (and may still be around).

 

Not hyannis, but not 60 miles either.

 

Wish I had seen this earlier.  Almost went out of Point Judith Friday but didn't get the transducer work on the boat done in time.  I looked at the marine weather for the weekend through Tuesday and it's all small craft advisories.  I completely missed the season this year due to all sorts of issues starting with getting the new boat prepped and ready to fighting weather, tides and schedules.

I was at GI last Friday looking for some fresh squid, from 8-11 pm was able to caught 2. I was surprise 1 squid was around ~10". 

The squid are always around in the summer. They seem to be scattered until the schools head out into the deeper ocean in the late fall. I was fishing around noon onTuesday off of Pt Judith in 70ft and they were grappling my fluke baits and hanging on until they got to the boat. Put on a squid jig and you will catch them at the boat.

After a great day of catching herring and mackerel in Westport Maine, we stopped at GIB the next night. I caught 57 from 8-11 last night. Granted they are small but a squid is a squid especially after being after being cephalopod deprived all summer. The fall run has begun. Will be back in a few weeks.

Sounds like you had a fantastic summer journey. I think if you only got small squid at GI that they are likely young of the year local squid. I don't think the fall run has begun at all or there'd be good jigging from CT to MA for better size squid. Last couple of years the "fall run" hasn't really got going until October. Squid are caught all summer long but they are local summer over squid and do not constitute a true 'run". Maybe see you folks on a dock in Oct, I'll be back at my usual spots by Oct first.

Actually there were a few mediums mixed in. A few locals told us this is the way the run usually starts. We've caught exclusively small squid there the end of July-early August. In any case it was great fun.

I'm here in hopes of gaining a little insight into the Rhode Island fall season of squid fishing. Went spearfishing last sunday and the water is still very warm and I'm still seeing quite a few black sea bass, tautog, and scupp near shore. The stripers and blues have been during the last week. What do you all look for, in the spring it seems like the water temp is the biggest indicator. Is day squidding a possibility in the fall?

 

Heard quite a few people talk about large schools of squid out in the open ocean (fish finder and visible) over the summer so I'm hoping for a good fall.

How about a squid report from the Newport crowd?? I've been on the Vineyard for a couple of weeks now and am experiencing the poorest squidding for this time of year in many years, maybe never this poor. Seems like they still haven't arrived in great numbers, I sure hope they aren't gone!!

Going to try in the next week. I haven’t gone because I felt the water was too warm. It should be good soon. Last year my first was Oct 11.

Been a couple time to Newport in the last couple weeks.  The squid are small and it was slow as the schoolies have been around.  Wife and I managed about 40 each outing.  Last week they were a bit larger than two weeks ago.  Not a lot of people trying, either during the week or on a Sunday night.

When the schoolies leave it should pick up.

Hi everyone,

Any report on squid fall run? I went on OCT 6th, only got 3x small but the guy next to me got about 15 small squid. Hope I can get back out there for the big one. 

I went spearfishing on thursday. The water had definitely dropped in temp. and the black sea bass/scupp were completely gone from shore. Saw no stripers or bluefish near shore. The tautog had gone into their fall mode of devouring everything they could get their chompers on and the stripers that day were offshore (about a 1-2 miles according to the bird congregations I saw). This storm today may push the remaining fish further from shore and I'm guessing that after the ocean and winds calm a little the fall squid run will start (I hope).

Quote:I went spearfishing on thursday. The water had definitely dropped in temp. and the black sea bass/scupp were completely gone from shore. Saw no stripers or bluefish near shore. The tautog had gone into their fall mode of devouring everything they could get their chompers on and the stripers that day were offshore (about a 1-2 miles according to the bird congregations I saw). This storm today may push the remaining fish further from shore and I'm guessing that after the ocean and winds calm a little the fall squid run will start (I hope).

We went a couple weeks ago and did a little regular fishing during the day and squid at night.  Managed a number of scup, w. flounder, black sea bass and even a leftover fluke (smallish).  Tried again Tuesday to get in before the storm and absolutely nothing.  Not even a single squid.  I'll keep watching the weather and may try again for squid in a week or two before it gets too cold.

What kind of jigs do you guys use?

Quote:We went a couple weeks ago and did a little regular fishing during the day and squid at night.  Managed a number of scup, w. flounder, black sea bass and even a leftover fluke (smallish).  Tried again Tuesday to get in before the storm and absolutely nothing.  Not even a single squid.  I'll keep watching the weather and may try again for squid in a week or two before it gets too cold.

Just updating my fall squid progress... I've been going to the canal east end trying up to 2/hrs after high tide with not much luck. Last year it was already going pretty good there by this time but not much there yet ( I got one in about an hour and a few were caught around me) On the plus side the ones that were caught were huge long fin squid. I might make a trip to Goat island tonight but have not heard any info about how it is there. Anyone get down to Provincetown yet this fall? Its a long ride for me but worth it if they are there.

Quote:Just updating my fall squid progress... I've been going to the canal east end trying up to 2/hrs after high tide with not much luck. Last year it was already going pretty good there by this time but not much there yet ( I got one in about an hour and a few were caught around me) On the plus side the ones that were caught were huge long fin squid. I might make a trip to Goat island tonight but have not heard any info about how it is there. Anyone get down to Provincetown yet this fall? Its a long ride for me but worth it if they are there.

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I am going to try next week. Everything seems to be behind schedule.