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Here is a question about these giant squids. I have seen them on a stripers site as well and they seem to be good flies for stripers. I fish for stripers in a southern river, and I doubt any of our stripers have ever seen a squid. Do you think these would still work?

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Here is a question about these giant squids. I have seen them on a stripers site as well and they seem to be good flies for stripers. I fish for stripers in a southern river, and I doubt any of our stripers have ever seen a squid. Do you think these would still work?

 

That is a good question...and I don't know if I could answer that correctly...They might take a shot at it, but you would be far more successful fishing bigger herring/baitfish patterns for your neck of the woods

 

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Of course they'd work, at least as an attractor pattern. If something looks like food, a voracious predator like a striper will grab it without looking it up in his field guide. Prey drive in a fish is instinctive behavior, not learned. Otherwise, they wouldn't survive long enough to eat any kind of fly. The exception would be if the bass were already targeting another species that's dissimilar to your fly. Stripers up here feed heavily on squid most of the time, but when they're on anchovies or tiny crabs, squid flies will get you nowhere. I'd bet that no trout has ever seen a bug that resembles a royal Wulff either, but people are still tying them because they work.

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good points made, and I had an idea that was going to be the response.

I may give one a try at the vise and if it looks like something close to a squid I will fish it.

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why wouldn't they know what a squid is...they are not landlocked right. if the river runs to the sea they know what a squid is.

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A new addition to the fly pattern database has been submitted by ctaylor:

 

 

 

Giant Squid

 

 

 

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Looks Great.

 

It definitely work in the Northeast. Even better with more white hackles mixed in.

 

 

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I sent riffleriversteel one of my Popovics FEather squids (in database) and he was banging bucketmouths with them I think.

 

Great Squid. No time to tie one for this weekend but will definitely pitch that off the jetty this fall. Any problem with fouling?

 

NE hitting the beaches on Sunday. Whoo hoo. Water still a bit warm for stripers though. 67F

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Ridley, I hope you had a better weekend than we had. The water temp up here dropped to 61 degrees after the recent blow and it sure hasn't helped any. The amount of bait out there is staggering and there's nothing on them except albies and a few blues. I've caught more albacore than I have bass. A friend of mine who runs the beach every day in a 4X4 hasn't caught a single fish yet. :crying:

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Ridley, I hope you had a better weekend than we had. The water temp up here dropped to 61 degrees after the recent blow and it sure hasn't helped any. The amount of bait out there is staggering and there's nothing on them except albies and a few blues. I've caught more albacore than I have bass. A friend of mine who runs the beach every day in a 4X4 hasn't caught a single fish yet. :crying:

 

 

Peterjay,

 

Are the Albies still there?

 

It has been an unbelievable year for them.

 

Can't wait for Stripers moving through.

 

Keep me posted. I drag my 16 ft. Lund Alaskan down to Westerly and take chase whenever wind and weather co-operate. I've done 8 Fat Alberts this year so far.

 

 

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Ridley, I hope you had a better weekend than we had. The water temp up here dropped to 61 degrees after the recent blow and it sure hasn't helped any. The amount of bait out there is staggering and there's nothing on them except albies and a few blues. I've caught more albacore than I have bass. A friend of mine who runs the beach every day in a 4X4 hasn't caught a single fish yet. :crying:

 

 

Peterjay,

 

Are the Albies still there?

 

It has been an unbelievable year for them.

 

Can't wait for Stripers moving through.

 

Keep me posted. I drag my 16 ft. Lund Alaskan down to Westerly and take chase whenever wind and weather co-operate. I've done 8 Fat Alberts this year so far.

 

 

Yeah, they were still on the reefs as of yesterday. All those anchovies are still keeping them in the area. But we're probably getting close to shutdown time with the water temp dropping. The usual late-season spots over your way will probably hang in there a bit longer with the warmer water and all. (I'm not going to mention them here for obvious reasons, but you know where I mean - it's already been picking up over there) I'm pretty disappointed with the bass situation - there should be fish all over the huge amount of bait we've had here the past few weeks. Even the blues have been scarce. A couple of guys I know got 4 or 5 bass yesterday and some kayakers got into small schoolies off the Naps, but it was pure luck more than anything else. Right place, right time. There just isn't any real action anywhere. I haven't been seeing anything at all, and I'm down there every day. We ran down a lot of bird activity yesterday along the beach, but they were just on cormorants. A guy caught and released a 30-pounder the other day at Weekapaug, but that was the only fish caught that day and it's the only big one I've heard of. I keep hearing about bunker moving up from Point Judith, but I think those guys are seeing things, because they aren't showing up here. Just anchovies so far. I hate to say it, but we're either going to get a late push or no push at all. The fat lady hasn't sung yet, but she's warming up in the wings

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Sorry no reply PeterJay but i was only beach for over sixty hours this weekend leaving only for coffee four times (forgot my coffee pot). :wallbash: With about a 20 minutes ride to get off the beach. :wallbash: :wallbash: And maaaaaan did I smell bad on monday. (more on that later?)

 

We had some sand eels in the water this weekend, but the bait hasnt been in but for a few days here and there. But that is NJ surf fishing. you just have to live at the Beach.

 

NE blew on monday but the water stayed clean all day. I caught three snapper blues on the fly off the N jetty at dusk on Sunday night and I caught my first bass of the year on a sand eel buck tail with a moss bunker fly teaser. I fished the pocket off the sand bar on the turned incoming. I fished it all different ways with different stuff for over an hour and a half and finally got a 22" little football bass on an almost "trout like" dead drift through the trough pocket. It was certainly an interesting way to fish a bucktail.

 

There have been a few nice bass caught and weighed at a few local shops but really not much to speak of. They also just dredged my Albie spot so that is shot.

 

I didnt want to do the ride home with myself because of the stench so I did the polar bear dip in the skinny and took the old salt bath. Now that would be a horrible picture.

 

The amount of hours I spend out there, manyof them alone and with very little sleep was almost a cleansing or monastic experience. sort of like fasting. I was a little buggy and bug-eyed by Monday. You think the fish gods would have blessed me better.

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Ridley, I hope you had a better weekend than we had. The water temp up here dropped to 61 degrees after the recent blow and it sure hasn't helped any. The amount of bait out there is staggering and there's nothing on them except albies and a few blues. I've caught more albacore than I have bass. A friend of mine who runs the beach every day in a 4X4 hasn't caught a single fish yet. :crying:

 

 

Peterjay,

 

Are the Albies still there?

 

It has been an unbelievable year for them.

 

Can't wait for Stripers moving through.

 

Keep me posted. I drag my 16 ft. Lund Alaskan down to Westerly and take chase whenever wind and weather co-operate. I've done 8 Fat Alberts this year so far.

 

 

Yeah, they were still on the reefs as of yesterday. All those anchovies are still keeping them in the area. But we're probably getting close to shutdown time with the water temp dropping. The usual late-season spots over your way will probably hang in there a bit longer with the warmer water and all. (I'm not going to mention them here for obvious reasons, but you know where I mean - it's already been picking up over there) I'm pretty disappointed with the bass situation - there should be fish all over the huge amount of bait we've had here the past few weeks. Even the blues have been scarce. A couple of guys I know got 4 or 5 bass yesterday and some kayakers got into small schoolies off the Naps, but it was pure luck more than anything else. Right place, right time. There just isn't any real action anywhere. I haven't been seeing anything at all, and I'm down there every day. We ran down a lot of bird activity yesterday along the beach, but they were just on cormorants. A guy caught and released a 30-pounder the other day at Weekapaug, but that was the only fish caught that day and it's the only big one I've heard of. I keep hearing about bunker moving up from Point Judith, but I think those guys are seeing things, because they aren't showing up here. Just anchovies so far. I hate to say it, but we're either going to get a late push or no push at all. The fat lady hasn't sung yet, but she's warming up in the wings

 

Peterjay let's get one fact clear. Down my way is Pawcatuck River / Watch Hill. the only thing my place in Old Saybrook is good for is sitting on a beach with my grand kids looking out over the brown water and when venturing in with them at low tide you can rest assured there's an eighth of a mile wade to get up to my waist. The whole area could benefit from a good 100 year hurricane. My wife and I had a boat up at Westerly Marina for eight years and one thing was learned. Brown water don't fish. We do all our fishing, and diving in Rhode Island and only Rhode Island. As soon as she retires we will likely move up to Westerly / Pawcatuck area where life is good.

 

Thanks for the update. I am heading for Newport tomorrow with a surf stick and will wait for bigger bat and bigger fish to come down my way out on the reefs. I have also heard of the schoolies on Naps just about every morning it's fairly calm.

 

I run a dark green Lund Alaskan if you ever see me out there give me a shout.

 

Tight lines

 

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FC - I agree with you about the sound. Not surprised to hear you don't fish over there - many of the guys I fish with in RI live in CT. (I live in Gales Ferry now, though Westerly is my home town) Amazing how many people move down this way just for the fishing. The trick is to get the spouse to go along with it. BTW, my daughter was down at the C-Town breachway last Thursday, and there were numerous 6-8 inch bunker swarming in and out with keeper-sized bass and blues all over them, and some of the blues were huge. We should be seeing bunker soon with any luck at all. Looks like the best may be yet to come, or at least we can hope. I also voiced my displeasure over the fact that she waited five days to let me in on it. I thought I'd raised her better than that. Check your PM's.

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