We were in the sea of Cortez trolling for dorado when all our lines started popping..as soon as I brought a line in it was released but the large lure was shredded...we realized a school of giant squid were swarming our boat at over 7knots!...We brought in all lines and changed to our squid jigs we'd brought from Monterey CA...we stopped the boat to fish, my son was holding his rod with a jig on it over the side (but not in the water) he asked me, "how do I fish for these"...just then I saw tenacales reach out of the water and grab his jig, the fight was on!...we fought and landed 4 squid, enough to eat and share with our group, then we stopped.
We anchored that night in a shallow cove off Danzte Isle...in the morning there were hundreds of squid that had beached themselves during the night..no one went swimming after dark, because of the squid, not sharks were the worry..
Here in Monterey we take the boat out to 2,000 feet. We drop the jigs in to around 800' and start jigging..once the squid attack the rest of them follow the caught squid to the surface..then you can catch them withing a couple feet of the surface...these guys have beaks larger than my parrots and the tenacles have a set of hooks and the suckers look like mini jaws...got to really respect them...
