Gaint squid.

starcrafttom · Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 1:05 am Post subject: Gaint squid.

For the holidays we flew to Sacramento and drove back to Seattle. We choice to tae the coast road most of the way so we could see my brother in Coo's bay. One the first night we stopped in Trinidad Ca. and spent the night at Trinidad head beach. There is no camping at the beach but we will never tell. We got in after dark and decided to go for a walk on the fishing pier. James yells out that he spotted a fish in the light of the pier. At first I did not believe him. Large fish just do not hang out on the surface. I figured a sea bird of some sort. I caught up with James and looked over the rail in time to see a giant squid. well probably a Humboldt squid. they are a deep water species that are caught by halibut and rock cod fisherman once in a while. The squid was about 4 ft long and bigger around then my leg, which ain’t saying much. The top of the head ,were the arrow shaped fins are, was two ft across. I never thought I would see one just swimming around on the surface like that. It just kept coming back to the light. we watched it swim around for 10 mins. it was very cold and windy that night. The mornings paper reported the winds had reached 60 mph and at least one boat had sunk down in Eureka. It was a truly once in a life time spotting.

Gene Morris · Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 2:11 pm Post subject:

The Humboldt squid are a targeted species for us tuna fishermen on the Northern Ca. coast. They are extremely tasty and fun to catch. Recently there have been carcass' found on the beach. Finding them on the beach or close to shore is pretty rare. I hope you had a good time in Humboldt county, It's a beautiful area.

The boat that sunk was a very old com'l fishing boat that hadn't moved from its mooring for years. No oil/diesel spill was noted however they did place booms around the craft.

Gene Morris

Big Bad Ben · Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 2:30 pm Post subject:

This morning I shot a squid in my pajamas. How it got into my pajamas I’ll never know…

With apologies to Groucho Marx.

Chester · Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 5:55 pm Post subject:

Chester · Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 6:01 pm Post subject:

Back to the Humboldt Squid. It's quite a predator, not many sea creatures are safe from it, just the BIG ones. The guys that go diving among them wear fiberglass armor and use teathers to keep from being dragged away!

Big Bad Ben · Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 6:06 pm Post subject:

We plan upon using our boat in the Sound, mostly. We feel it will be more fun than a townhouse in Seattle. And we can easily take it East to play in the Bahamas, too

With any luck we will even see a squid in sleepware!

Shocked

Captains Cat · Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 7:21 pm Post subject:

Tom, was this you in the picture?

charlie (I meant one of the guys, not the pink thingy Rolling Eyes

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starcrafttom · Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:55 pm Post subject:

Charlie, what movie set was that from?

Captains Cat · Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 10:58 am Post subject:

Heck, I don't know. I just did a google image search on Starcraft Tom Laughing

Just kidding, did one on Giant Squid.... Thumbs Up

Charlie