13-12-2005, 05:51 AM
3 of us went to Pier 86 in seattle on 12/8/05 from 8-10 pm. There were aprox. 50 people there. There were a few plug-ins that were being used and that is where most of the squid were being caught. About 9 pm I watched the main group under the lights and they were averaging 10 squid per minute. This was my first Squiding trip and I was very impressed witht the sucess of this core group of fishermen. The 3 of us only managed 20 squid total in the two hours. The key to catching squid is an additional light source besides the overhead lamp on the Pier. The one thing that I found interesting was the size difference between the Squid. The first one I caught was about 10 inches in total length and the later ones I caught were only 5 inches. There were definately large schools of squid that would swim by (several thousand squid per). It was definately a good experience and fairly easy.