I wasnt sure if this report should go here or elsewhere, so sorry if it belongs in another topic.
For those of you unfamiliar with my posts, we use 5 gallon buckets as a measure of the catch rate. Each bucket holds about 50 pounds of tasty squid when filled to the top with no water.
Had 2 charters this weekend for squid out of Hyannis, MA. Saturdays trip was 1/2 tautog and 1/2 squid, so we didnt get going on the squid until 1:30PM. The bite was very spotty and the squid were not around in any rweal concentration. We looked in all the usual spots, and found a small piece of bottom with a small fleet sitting in a loose clump. We anchored up and managed a slow pick on tubes until we called it quits at 5pm. It was good fun being back out on the squid after a year long absence, but the bite could have been better. We only managed just over a bucket for the entire boat of 5 anglers.
Sunday started out much the same, and I was worried it was going to be another slow day. We searched all over the area trying to find a productive bottom but could only find small pods of not so hungry tubes. About mid day, one of my anglers got a call from his friend on a party boat saying they were killing them in a fleet of about 35 boats. We located the fleet, and the guys wanted to get there ASAP, so we took off at mach 1 and made the 6 mile run, only to find his friend had pulled a joke, and there was no bite to be had in amongst the manhy anchored boats. The call worked in other ways, as on the way back to the original spot we had been picking away at, I stopped in an area I had located a bite in the past, and found a fresh sheet of newly arrived squid that were very receptive to our jigs. The squid were really hitting the jigs hard, all coming up stuck by their long tentacles rather than the usual assortment of snagged and foul hooked squid when they arent red hot and chewing. I stayed out an extra 2 hours for my crew, and we managed a very good bite in the last 3 hours of the day. High hook had just over a full bucket, with the other guys scoring between a half and 3/4 of a bucket or so.
Best color producer(as always) was pink in 3.5 inch size.
I have a few daytime open boat spots available for this coming week if anyone is interested in getting out on a boat for some squid jigging madness. The bite should improve and I would imagine good through the new moon mid month. By then the bite should have materialized in Newport and the south shore of RI for the night bite.
For those of you unfamiliar with my posts, we use 5 gallon buckets as a measure of the catch rate. Each bucket holds about 50 pounds of tasty squid when filled to the top with no water.
Had 2 charters this weekend for squid out of Hyannis, MA. Saturdays trip was 1/2 tautog and 1/2 squid, so we didnt get going on the squid until 1:30PM. The bite was very spotty and the squid were not around in any rweal concentration. We looked in all the usual spots, and found a small piece of bottom with a small fleet sitting in a loose clump. We anchored up and managed a slow pick on tubes until we called it quits at 5pm. It was good fun being back out on the squid after a year long absence, but the bite could have been better. We only managed just over a bucket for the entire boat of 5 anglers.
Sunday started out much the same, and I was worried it was going to be another slow day. We searched all over the area trying to find a productive bottom but could only find small pods of not so hungry tubes. About mid day, one of my anglers got a call from his friend on a party boat saying they were killing them in a fleet of about 35 boats. We located the fleet, and the guys wanted to get there ASAP, so we took off at mach 1 and made the 6 mile run, only to find his friend had pulled a joke, and there was no bite to be had in amongst the manhy anchored boats. The call worked in other ways, as on the way back to the original spot we had been picking away at, I stopped in an area I had located a bite in the past, and found a fresh sheet of newly arrived squid that were very receptive to our jigs. The squid were really hitting the jigs hard, all coming up stuck by their long tentacles rather than the usual assortment of snagged and foul hooked squid when they arent red hot and chewing. I stayed out an extra 2 hours for my crew, and we managed a very good bite in the last 3 hours of the day. High hook had just over a full bucket, with the other guys scoring between a half and 3/4 of a bucket or so.
Best color producer(as always) was pink in 3.5 inch size.
I have a few daytime open boat spots available for this coming week if anyone is interested in getting out on a boat for some squid jigging madness. The bite should improve and I would imagine good through the new moon mid month. By then the bite should have materialized in Newport and the south shore of RI for the night bite.