Compared to the last few days of squid fishing, today was a dream on many levels. It was far 'calmer' than the previous several trips, although, some on the boat may have found that hard to believe while out 19 mils on the sid grounds. Even if you were on the boat, you would have found the squid action hard to believe. Tom Cala, on Tea Sea, raced out ahead of me. I told him where I had been fishing and where I intended to go. When I was three miles from the spot, he radios, " I not only have squid, but they are very shallow". The only thing that stopped me from jamming the throttles to Warp Speed, was Capt Chuck Kemnitz was on the throttles. We stopped, hooked up on the drop, in about 550 feet, and hooked up on the way down. Tom Cala had stopped on a spot of birds, and it was WFO for him - as soon as I got there, it was WFO for Huli Cat. I stopped fishing myself to get a little video that includes Wendall Ching, throwing a hand line, hauling in squid. He was shouting, "Hawaiin Style, Bro!" 'Sharkey', Nico said he was getting them at 15 feet. We got them up to where it was unnecessary to go more than 50 feet. By 10:30am, the bonner wa full, the back fish box as full, squid on the deck, 5 anglers, and 4 crew. Everyone took turns gaffing. Squid on a hand line, man I had never seen that! We completed the day with 9 limits of Dungeness crab. About 18 squid got donated to the Squids fo Kids Program. Everyone's cooler was straining under the load of cleaned squid.
"And a fine day was had by all" We were back in the harbor by 2pm.