Newport Ri 2014 Squid Season

[SalemScott]

 

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Howdy boys, it's been a long winter but I've stayed busy doing my other hobby, metal detecting.  I detected straight through the winter, out there on some nights that were 6 degrees, brrr.  It's been a good detecting season so far, I'm currently at 13 gold rings...cha ching. :woot:   Last fall while I was detecting there were TONS of squid eggs on the beach, everywhere I looked were egg sacks.  I'll try to include a pic below. 

 

Anyway, after a beautiful day on the beach today I got to thinking about my squid fishing friends and figured I'd stop in and say hello.  So what's the deal, when can I expect to see my squid friends on the north shore of Ma?  So 50 degrees is the temp to remember regarding the squid?  I'll keep a close eye on the temps.  Take care guys.

 



 

 

 

 

I do not think those are suppose to be out of the water. I hope our squid ward friends are not being confused by the change in climates. I love the idea of squid expanding their range in terms of abundance, but not looking forward to the idea of a population shift toward areas generally not favorable for squid reproduction. Just to ask salem scott. How many egg sack piles did you see? a few dozen, a few hundred? a few thousand? Squid will actually carpet the bottom with these eggs on any hard substrate they can find. My other question is was this a minus or tide?

 

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I found many of these, definitely in the 100's...possibly over 1000.  Every beach I went to last fall had many of these on them. I don't remember the exact type of tides I noticed them at but I always metal detecting during low tides because there is more beach exposed to detect, plus the waves/swells move sand around with each tide, exposing the gold.  While each pile I saw kind of broke my heart a bit, knowing that each of those eggs is a potential squid I won't catch, I figured if there are this many washing up on the shore then imagine how many were still in the water.  It's this reasoning that gives me hope for a great squid fishing season this year.