Monster Hunting Last Night
My son Chris and I took the DOGHOUSE out last night for a little squidding last night 5 miles straight out from the jetty, beautiful flat calm gorgous night until we brought up the Humbolts in large quanities! These things are huge! My first was the biggest maybe 30#plus; the other 5 or so we kept were 20-25 easy; we released 15 or so others. It was full speed after bringing the gang up from 550' to about 50-75' where they would hang out and attack anything lowered down to them. The best rig was a 8" squid jig on 60# leader with a 12-16oz torpedo 24" below it to get it down fast. The next best was a Salas 6X heavy in white glow or blue/white glow(this worked well when they were 50-75' down.) I don't know if I had one on the jig and one on the sinker or just one hell of a demon, I snapped it off on 60#! We tried the traditional size squid jigs which got inhaled but the barbs don't get enough solid meat and you end up tearing off the tentacles when they run and then you get bit again and you can never get up to the surface with a squid on the jig, you just crank forever! No mess in the boat either, put a 100 qt cooler in the back corner and gaff behind the head and drop into the cooler - no squirters!
I'll post pics from the cleaning table tonight, after dropping my camera in the drink last summer I still can't understand why my daughter wouldn't let me take her's last night.
And this was the SMALLEST one!
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