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[color="blue"]San Bernardino Sun - San Bernardino,CA,USA

by Terrence Berg[/color]

[color="gray"]Wednesday, February 09, 2005[/color]

[color="red"]Ocean fishing report[/color]



[color="green"]Giant squid: Giant squid ranging from 20-0 to 35-0 continue to be landed from San Diego to Oceanside. Squid jigs or white iron dropped to the bottom then wound quickly to the boat has been best tactic. Boat captains are recommending that anglers fish with 30- or 40-pound-test line and wear ponchos to protect clothing from flying ink when a gaffed squid is brought aboard. Last Thursday, 51 anglers aboard a twilight trip on the New Seaforth, Seaforth Sportfishing, San Diego, landed 290 squid from 15-0 to 30-0. ....[/color]



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February 28, 2006



Quote:Giant Squid: The local fleet was boating them off San Diego last year at this time, but thus far, the Humboldt squid have been elusive. Steve Ross reports that commercial panga shark fishermen are reporting schools of giant squid 25 miles west of Ensenada.



[url="http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports/outdoors/20060228-9999-1s28fishing.html"]http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports/outdo...s28fishing.html[/url]
Quote:LA Times - What They're Catching

June 5, 2006

FISH REPORT



SAN DIEGO (H&M Landing)—255 anglers (10 boats): 1 Bluefin Tuna, 15 Albacore Tuna, 785 Yellowtail,

31 Giant Squid, 2 Calico Bass, 28 Rockfish, 852 Bonito, 1 Lingcod, 1 Sculpin, 1 Mako Shark, 5 Red Snapper.



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Quote:Fish Report

June 10, 2006



SAN DIEGO (Seaforth) — 172 anglers (8 boats): 226 Bluefin Tuna, 8 Albacore Tuna, 184 Yellowtail, 5 Giant Squid, 149 Bonito.



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Quote:During the past week, San Diego boats have caught yellowtail, bluefin tuna, bigeye tuna, skipjack tuna, marlin, dorado, yellowfin tuna, short billed spearfish, bonito, and giant squid. Many of those same species have been caught by Los Angeles/Orange county based boats too. The Bongos III had seven yellowfin tuna and more than 30 skipjack on Wednesday fishing only 25 miles from Newport Beach.



By Phil Friedman

[url="http://www.dailybreeze.com/sports/articles/4380656.html"]http://www.dailybreeze.com/sports/articles/4380656.html[/url]

Originally published Thursday, October 12, 2006
Quote:The jumbo Humboldt squid have shown up off Ensenada and Oceanside and now straight off Mission Bay (below the 178), according to anglers Marty Morris and Harry Okuda. They landed three of the jumbo squirters up to 40 pounds or more on Wednesday night.



[url="http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports/outdoors/20070106-9999-lz1s6outdoors.html"]http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports/outdo...s6outdoors.html[/url]

By Ed Zieralski

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January 6, 2007
Quote:SAN DIEGO (H&M Landing) — 44 anglers (2 boats): 200 giant squid, 1 halibut, 10 sand bass. (Point Loma) — 11 anglers (1 boat): 64 giant squid. (Seaforth) — 115 anglers (2 boats): 505 Giant Squid. (Islandia) — 59 anglers (3 boats): 175 giant squid, 1 halibut, 1 calico bass, 16 sand bass.



[url="http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-spw-fishreport15jan15,1,3962201.story?coll=la-headlines-sports&ctrack=1&cset=true"]http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-spw-fishr...1&cset=true[/url]

January 15, 2007

LA Times
Quote:SAN DIEGO (H&M Landing) — 194 anglers (6 boats): [color="#ff00ff"]304 Giant Squid[/color], 2 Halibut, 38 Sand Bass, 120 Rockcod. (Fisherman's) — 50 anglers (2 boats): 336 Yellowfin Tuna, 112 Yellowtail, 6 Dorado, 10 Wahoo. (Point Loma) — 89 anglers (4 boats): 5 Yellowtail, 153 Giant Squid, 2 Sand Bass, 55 Lingcod, 10 Sculpin, 55 Red Snapper. (Seaforth) — 213 anglers (7 boats): 40 Yellowtail, 150 Giant Squid, 12 Calico Bass, 23 Sand Bass, 1 Barracuda, 20 Mackerel, 406 Rockfish, 3 Bonito, 18 Lingcod, 165 Red Snapper. (Islandia) — 13 anglers (1 boat): 1 Sand Bass, 1 Bonito, 2 Sculpin.



[url="http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-spw-fishreport22jan22,1,3175765.story"]http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-spw-fishr...1,3175765.story[/url]

January 22, 2007
Quote:SAN DIEGO (H&M Landing)—49 anglers (2 boats): [color="#ff0000"]62 Giant Squid[/color], 2 Halibut, 156 Sand Bass, 7 Sculpin. (Point Loma)—12 anglers (1 boat): 62 Sand Bass, 60 Sculpin. (Seaforth)—56 anglers (2 boats): [color="#ff0000"]5 Giant Squid[/color], 14 Calico Bass, 16 Sand Bass, 20 Mackerel. (Islandia)—32 anglers (1 boat): [color="#ff0000"]77 Giant Squid.[/color]



[url="http://www.latimes.com/sports/printedition/la-spw-fishreport26jan26,1,3863570.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-sports"]http://www.latimes.com/sports/printedition...lines-pe-sports[/url]

January 26, 2007
The Humbolt's (Giant Squid) are here again in San Diego -- took a twilight fishing trip a few months ago - report through Jan09:



Seaforth Sportfishing 29 Anglers 2 Boats 54 Giant Squid, 9 Sand Bass, 2 Sculpin, 1 Calico Bass