happy? - July 23 (Squid)

23 Jul 05 - 07:43 AM (#1526143)
Subject: happy? - July 23
From: Abby Sale

Large schools of squid move in at the Newfoundland coast during August, September, and October, and fishermen pull them in with line and jigger. The Holyrood, Newfoundland Squid Fest, (erstwhile, the Squid Jigging Festival) is now held the last week of July, 7/23-7/31 in 2005. Info at Holyrood events

          Oh, this is the place where the fishermen gather
          With oil-skins and boots and Cape Anns battened down
          All sizes of figures with squid lines and jiggers
          They congregate here on the squid-jiggin' ground.
  
                  "The Squid-Jiggin' Ground" was written by Dr. Arthur R. Scammell in his home
                  town of Change Islands (in Notre Dame Bay on the Island of Newfoundland) at 
                  age fifteen.  He died 8/28/1995 at age 82.  You wouldn't be far wrong to call
                  it the 'Newfie National Anthem.'

F.Y.I., Newf. fishing regulation #11: "It is illegal to jig fish in inland waters. Accidentally foulhooked fish must be released."

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23 Jul 05 - 03:39 PM (#1526437)
Subject: RE: happy? - July 23 (Squid)
From: Desert Dancer

'Course, they're not fish, are they, invertebrates as they are...

;-)

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24 Jul 05 - 11:07 AM (#1527011)
Subject: RE: happy? - July 23 (Squid)
From: Celtaddict

And here I always thought "I'se the B'y" was the Newfie National Anthem.

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