Newport, Ri - 2007 Squid Season

[Sarah]

[quote name='NeverBlanked' post='9103' date='Jun 16 2007, 09:28 AM']Well from what I have learned about long fin and short finned squid through reading scholarly journals there may be a few factors to help you out. the species is sensitive to water temp there is an adequate spawn temp they go for generally in a range of 47F-57F degrees. Seeing how we are quite past that the big spawn is over and that is why the pier fishing has died off. Probably the reasons there are still getting caught by trawling is due to the amount of food in the area and arrival of predators. As more stripers and blue fish move in there will be less and less squid caught. Another thing the species is sensitive is water clarity and cleanliness so after a rainstorm isn't probably the best time to go. If you don't get any on the trawl and you opt to snorkel dive for them you probably want to target sea grass beds as they provide excellent cover and spawning area. I know there is a fairly large sea grass bed off of 3rd beach in Newport but you would need a boat to get to it. And is only in about 10-20 foot of water and good luck on catching them I would be interested how that would be done. Other than that general fishing info is go on a moving tide either low to high or high to low. Lunar phases are always preferable. Night could still produce with help of a lantern as an attractant. But best of luck I hope this info helps you out if you have any questions or anything else I will be returning from a vacation in a week and provide a hand and as I can only assume you are a URI student maybe RWU, as an URI alumni I am only happy to help so feel free to ask away.[/quote]



Thanks! I am a URI grad student. Nice to know some URI alumni check this forum. Thanks for the advice, the only other time I went squid jigging was for Humboldt squid in the ocean, so jigging for tiny local squid off the piers is a new experience for me...