22-06-2011, 08:45 AM
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I'm actually gonna head out to Green Hill tonight so I'll fill ya in if I fill my buckets <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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From what I hear a lot of them haven't spawn yet so their feeding.
Which is why the squids choose their locations. They attach their eggs to reefs. They're usually these seaweed that seem to cling onto rocks. That's what squids attach their eggs to. There are a lot of reefs in Newport and more in Green Hill. Reefs are around beaches so it makes sense squids are around too.
Squid will travel inshore to lay eggs so their young would prosper with the abundance of food in the shallows. The squid you catch in the fall are the hatchlings from the spring's spawn. They grow very fast!
I caught all of this on nature channels. Yea, I have too much time on my hands.
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Nice information Squid_man!
If you do catch some, can you let us know if they are still carrying eggs?
I am curious, besides liking the squid for obvious reasons, as to what is affecting their spawing. I was under the impression that temperature was the deciding factor but there may be something else messing with the spawning. It just seems really late compared to a copuple of years ago.
Good Luck!!
I'm actually gonna head out to Green Hill tonight so I'll fill ya in if I fill my buckets <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' />From what I hear a lot of them haven't spawn yet so their feeding.
Which is why the squids choose their locations. They attach their eggs to reefs. They're usually these seaweed that seem to cling onto rocks. That's what squids attach their eggs to. There are a lot of reefs in Newport and more in Green Hill. Reefs are around beaches so it makes sense squids are around too.
Squid will travel inshore to lay eggs so their young would prosper with the abundance of food in the shallows. The squid you catch in the fall are the hatchlings from the spring's spawn. They grow very fast!
I caught all of this on nature channels. Yea, I have too much time on my hands.
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Nice information Squid_man!
If you do catch some, can you let us know if they are still carrying eggs?
I am curious, besides liking the squid for obvious reasons, as to what is affecting their spawing. I was under the impression that temperature was the deciding factor but there may be something else messing with the spawning. It just seems really late compared to a copuple of years ago.
Good Luck!!