Newport, Ri - 2009 Squid Season

[mino_401]

hi guys... i was at sakonnet point friday night from 7:30 pm to 12:30 am. i caught 2 quick ones during the incoming tide around 10 pm. my setup was using 2 jigs with a 1/2 ounce sinker, pink on top blue on bottom (maybe pink works better at night?). i cast it out about 20 feet and dragged it in instead of jigging up and down from the dock. i caught the squid in the dark waters away from the bright work lights.



some of the guys were saying that the squid were deterred from the very bright lights (the kind that shoots all the way to the bottom). i think soft lantern lights are much preferred. so i'm wondering what your thoughts were on this??

[zach]

Man those big squid, although few, were muy delicioso



*hint: don't salt to make squid tender, it becomes way too salty(just add salt into marinade)



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[pearldiver57]

Hi all, I did the francis fleet friday night. Man was the fog thick. I couldn't see more then 10-20 feet around me. As soon as we set anchor, I started nailing them. They were about 3 feet off them bottom. After a few hours, they started to rise to 5-10 feet under the boat. And they were aggressively chasing jigs. So nice to see. I, myself, just about topped off my 5 gal pail. I know some of you do not believe anything the francis fleet post on their site, So, I'm telling you my experience, take it for what it's worth. I'll be doing it again thurs night.

Pearldiver

[KGJ]

[quote name='pearldiver' post='15257' date='May 18 2009, 11:58 AM']Hi all, I did the francis fleet friday night. Man was the fog thick. I couldn't see more then 10-20 feet around me. As soon as we set anchor, I started nailing them. They were about 3 feet off them bottom. After a few hours, they started to rise to 5-10 feet under the boat. And they were aggressively chasing jigs. So nice to see. I, myself, just about topped off my 5 gal pail. I know some of you do not believe anything the francis fleet post on their site, So, I'm telling you my experience, take it for what it's worth. I'll be doing it again thurs night.

Pearldiver[/quote]



Good to hear- congrats! I'll be there with some work buddies on friday, hopefully fill up a cooler.

[twiggy]

[quote name='pearldiver' post='15257' date='May 17 2009, 09:58 PM']Hi all, I did the francis fleet friday night. Man was the fog thick. I couldn't see more then 10-20 feet around me. As soon as we set anchor, I started nailing them. They were about 3 feet off them bottom. After a few hours, they started to rise to 5-10 feet under the boat. And they were aggressively chasing jigs. So nice to see. I, myself, just about topped off my 5 gal pail. I know some of you do not believe anything the francis fleet post on their site, So, I'm telling you my experience, take it for what it's worth. I'll be doing it again thurs night.

Pearldiver[/quote]



Thanks for the report. Its not a critism of FF that I dont believe their reports. No party boat business will say that the fishing is awful so don't sail with us, so I don't blame them. But like all reports from businesses, they are biased reports. This is why I like this web site where I get unbiased reports from folks like you.

[flukeprodigy]

[quote name='twiggy' post='15259' date='May 18 2009, 09:56 PM']Thanks for the report. Its not a critism of FF that I dont believe their reports. No party boat business will say that the fishing is awful so don't sail with us, so I don't blame them. But like all reports from businesses, they are biased reports. This is why I like this web site where I get unbiased reports from folks like you.[/quote]





I agree 110%.



Was thinking about actually going out on the ff this weekend as well. Seems the majority of the folks having success this year are doing so from boats

[KingSquidWithTheBiggest...]

[quote name='pearldiver' post='15257' date='May 17 2009, 09:58 PM']Hi all, I did the francis fleet friday night. Man was the fog thick. I couldn't see more then 10-20 feet around me. As soon as we set anchor, I started nailing them. They were about 3 feet off them bottom. After a few hours, they started to rise to 5-10 feet under the boat. And they were aggressively chasing jigs. So nice to see. I, myself, just about topped off my 5 gal pail. I know some of you do not believe anything the francis fleet post on their site, So, I'm telling you my experience, take it for what it's worth. I'll be doing it again thurs night.

Pearldiver[/quote]



i know it's tough to see with pea soup, but where approx. does the FF sail for squid. south shore matunuck area, or do they turn east toward npt?



how deep of water?

[stripey]

[quote name='Striper1' post='15244' date='May 17 2009, 04:50 PM']Just got back from the Newport bridge area and maybe took 50 squid. Fishing was tight and the weather got worse the bite seemed to stop at 1000ish and we stuck it out till 1100 and headed for the barn then. We towed in a boat to the FT Adams launch and they were very appreciable, that luck! was probably the high light of the night. Squiding was NOT good. Hailed a few guys on the VHF but there was no reply. I was not able to monitor thogh out the night due to the generator running. Hope others had better[/quote]



Glad to hear you got some. We didn't go due to all the FOG! I hear it was pretty thick!

[Moalboaldiver]

South Yarmouth, Cape Cod report....Smugglers Beach Pier, SAT. Night. We had a very nice weekend fishing with my sister and her husband, on the Cape. We did get into some small blues and schoolie stripers, but no squid to be seen at all. The pier itself is a very nice pier, at the mouth of Bass River. The pier actually has bait cutting stations and running water supplied via short garden hoses. Nice for cleaning your catch right there, or for cleaning up your gear and hands from cutting bait up. Sunday morning was a wash, heavy rains and Coooooooold. Ended up going shoping and having a nice lunch before heading back to CT. Traffic sucks on the Cape, for those who haven't been there before.

[squirtherder09]

[quote name='xanadu599' post='15218' date='May 15 2009, 09:23 PM']Hey, are you still at GSO? If so, who is this?



--Al (Seibel lab)[/quote]



Hey Al, I'm working in the AQ and Blount buildings helping Ed manage the facilities over there and am a grad student in the Bradley Lab at East Farm. So not really a GSO grad student, just one that works alot at GSO!

Gonna probably go tonight. Maybe GI, maybe a secret spot. We'll see how it goes...

- George

[pearldiver57]

[quote name='KingSquidWithTheBiggest...' post='15263' date='May 18 2009, 12:42 PM']i know it's tough to see with pea soup, but where approx. does the FF sail for squid. south shore matunuck area, or do they turn east toward npt?



how deep of water?[/quote]

They usually hang a right out of the harbor and head down along rhode island shore line. Depending on tide, usually around 30-50 feet of water. Later in the season, it's nice to watch the sunset over the shoreline.

Pearldiver

[SuzySquid]

[quote name='Moalboaldiver' post='15235' date='May 16 2009, 10:02 PM']Hey folks,



Just wanted to say thank you, for all the PM's recieved on Cape Cod and the area. We are leaving now and I will give a report when we get home Monday....Busterblue/Dave, I'll give you a ring tonight sometime, probably from the Canal area or Smuggler Beach Fishing Pier..



Best of luck to all,



Ned, Margie, & David[/quote]



JOHNAT and I (SuzySquid) were there Sat from 3:30 to 9:30 NOTHING

Alan of course crept up next to us and caught 5. Maybe this saturday we will try again.

[KingSquidWithTheBiggest...]

awful quiet around here. i hope i didn't miss a memo...



gonna give tonight a try

[flukeprodigy]

[quote name='KingSquidWithTheBiggest...' post='15279' date='May 20 2009, 06:08 AM']awful quiet around here. i hope i didn't miss a memo...



gonna give tonight a try[/quote]



whats this i'm hearing you're having trouble with your TPS reports?

didn't you get the memo?

[dave5065]

where every1 go? any squid report

[Garren]

[quote name='daveydave' post='15283' date='May 19 2009, 09:55 PM']where every1 go? any squid report[/quote]





RIGHT HERE!



I went tonight from 10 to 1. I caught about 7. it was slow but yea. Humungous cloud of bait fish. I snagged a squid that was like 3 inches long. no one else was catching except the guy next to me caught one. I went a couple of other times and we left empty handed. Bigger fish are breaching in the waters. Stripers i assume. I find it awful how everytime i reel in my jigs i snag like 5 bait fish. ODD.



i hope it gets better somehow. whats going on.

[flukeprodigy]

I find it very odd that nobody seems to be having much luck from land this year, only by boat. 3 yrs ago we'd fill buckets and coolers from the bridge every time we went out.

[luftnpanzrwagn]

It's happened again, hasn't it...?



Come on squids, meet us halfway.

[stripey]

We'll be trying a "secret" spot that I think may produce some squids tonight. It's on the CT/RI border. We are taking the boat. Will report back tomorrow on how we do.

[flukeprodigy]

[quote name='stripey' post='15297' date='May 21 2009, 12:24 AM']We'll be trying a "secret" spot that I think may produce some squids tonight. It's on the CT/RI border. We are taking the boat. Will report back tomorrow on how we do.[/quote]



its not a secret anymore <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mad.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />