California Giant Squid Report 2008

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February 17, 2008

SEAFORTH – 31 anglers, two half-day boats: 10 calico bass, 17 sand bass, 1 sculpin, 100 mackerel. 27 anglers, one three-quarter-day boat: 155 rockfish. 14 anglers, one twilight boat: 14 giant squid.

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[glen]

Humboldt squid: Voracious swarms of 50-pound Humboldt squid, which seem to devour everything in their path, are now wintering off the Bay Area coast and have located and annihilated schools of salmon (and rockfish).

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Sunday, March 23, 2008

[IVAN T]

There has been one private boat fish by Pismo beach area about a weak ago that caught a handfull of Humboldt squid. Everyone has been busy fishing for Rockfish, but as soon as the season closes there will be more boats going out for squid.

[glen]

BODEGA BAY " Looks like the squid are back in numbers similar to the first year the New Sea Angler started fishing for them. Captain Rick Powers reported three trips, one on Wednesday, and trips on the weekend. "We had 1,126 squid on those three trips," said Powers. The action came between 22 and 24 miles out of Bodega Bay on the edge of the Cordell Banks.

HALF MOON BAY "Captain Tom Mattusch continued his efforts at offering variety in giant squid and crab trips on the Huli Cat, and this time, his anglers really nailed the squid. "The squid came up in a vengeance," said Mattusch, who told the group to pull their gear when 160 squid were loading up the boxes and littering the deck. He said they also managed 1/2 limits of crab.

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December 15, 2008

[KamLoory]

Good job And I will second that you do not need squid because I had more than I needed two trips in a row and took home a goose egg.