Damn tough two days...

[Deep C]

So tired I can barely see the screen. Head back out as soon as this thunderstorm passes...
Started yesterday morn... Tried dragging dinks to start. Greenish water and loasy radio reports along wiith a soouth wind had me knowing it was gonna be a long day. If I'm gonna catch nothing, may as well try for big nothings. The Contender saw a white last summer and a blue last week but never really had a full marlin spread working so I gave it a try.
Damn... Plain lures wouldn't drag worth a crap behind her. Played with throttle but couldn't find happy place. Wakes and wash just not right. Fiddled with the spread and found one that kinda looked good. I had ciecles on the riggers and shotgun but the iland pros just wouldn't match up with any I had so they got J on the inside. Found some life around 600' dragged for five hours before a big girl raised and did a drive by. She didn't commit. Three more hours without a bite and I had to drop a guest off back at the dock.
Having just smelled the skunks ass I was looking forward to a fresh start swording. Damn weather man lied and we had a stiff fifteen from the south instead of the five he promised. Short nasty chop and 5.6 knots of drift!!!
I loaded up on the lead and got a three bait spread about where I wanted it. The dark came on cue... The long mid depth bait then started running off. I let it go for a few then went to come tight. I was there for a few seconds as the deep started going and then the short. Oh boy a tripple. Then one by one all three came unglued. As each one came up they were baseballs pulled down. Not torn up I pulled them back straight dropped a few stitches and started sendoing them back. Bang Bang Bang all there took off again.
The fifties clickers were groaning good. The eighty was not quite as noisy. Then one by one all stood straight again. You might guess that my language was choice having just missed six straight bites. You'ld be right. I restitched three more base balls...
Had just reset two when they both went off. These bites just seemed strange though.. Something just not quite right. Couldn't put my finger on it but just not right. I feed em both for a long time came tight and drag was again singing... Both came loose after a couple minutes and I was now fit to be tied. I began looking for a sword to fall on, rusty razor blades for my wrists or any cyanide pills to swallow. The first rig came up and had what appeared to be a swordfish eye ball on the hook. I grapped it unhooked the object and just when I dropped it over I felt something hard on it?
The next one came in and it too had an eye ball atteached... WAIT A FRIGGIN MINUTE !!! 0-8 and two eyeballs in a row just doesn't happen. Stopp the presses!!! I grabbed the "eyeball" and un hooked it. It too had something hard to the touch. I turned the lights on and was floored by what I saw.
This thing had teeth. An upper one and a lower one!!!
It took a few minutes for the micro processor to catch on. This wasn't an eye it was a beak from a friggin ginormous squid!!!!! Bigger than a golf ball not quite as big as a tennis ball a friggin squid beak!!!
That boys and girls for me is a first!!!!! I never even heard of slob class squidlies in the Atlantic????
The night dragged on with no more excitement. It was late o'clock when we hit the dock. It seemed like I blinked and it was time to go again. Eight hours we dragged it all. Tried jigging kings, Tried dropping the wrecks. Nothing, nada zip zilch zero... Then as I was pulling the spread to duck these thunder storms a sail swatted a dink. One swat, too slow to react and drop back. Gone...
Hopefully tonight goes better... I'll post a pic of that beak when I get home...

[knock down]

Damn Deep , Those are some Big Squids no wonder the hook -ups were not on target , or were they ? Just wondering , would you Jig for them purposely if it was to happen again ? I know the West coasters fish for the humbolts at times. I,m sure there is a Purple Slob out there with your name all over it Not to mention some big blue gals as well Patience my friend , it will happen!

[Deep C]

Well was ready to go but still raining and my people are as exhausted as I am. Pulled the plug on another swords adventure... Suppised to blow some tomorrow so we will probably go back and shoot for sails...

As promised.... The beak from squidzilla... You can see why in the dark I thought they were eyeballs...


Also another shot from near where we had the blue bite. Palm Beach is not known for blues but I have seen little runs of em. You never know unless you try. You can see some interesting marks on the left of the depth screen and again high near the center... Also note the boat is pointed south east but only making less than two knots and actually heading a couple degrees north of east with as much current as we have been seeing...

[DH 111]

Well was ready to go but still raining and my people are as exhausted as I am. Pulled the plug on another swords adventure... Suppised to blow some tomorrow so we will probably go back and shoot for sails...

As promised.... The beak from squidzilla... You can see why in the dark I thought they were eyeballs...
DAMN SUMMINABITCH LOOKS LIKE YOU RIPPED IT OFF A PARROTS FACE. THAT WILL TAKE A FINGER OFF!!!!
DID ANYONE ELSE REPORT SIMILIAR PROBLEMS??????????
Also another shot from near where we had the blue bite. Palm Beach is not known for blues but I have seen little runs of em. You never know unless you try. You can see some interesting marks on the left of the depth screen and again high near the center... Also note the boat is pointed south east but only making less than two knots and actually heading a couple degrees north of east with as much current as we have been seeing...

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[Deep C]

Nope was a slow night out there. one guy had a shark and one guy lost a sword , I guess. At least at our end... Down south they had a wild night on swords... I checked the wrecked baits from last night to see what I could find. Two others had bites like a beak like that could make two had slashes though like swords. Maybe some big feed of both down there? The two beaks we caught and the two torn up baits though would indicate that at least four of eight bites we had were them...

[DH 111]

GET OUT SOME SNAGS AND GLOW STICKS AND YOU GOT SOME KILLER CALAMARI-------OR SOME NICE SKIPPING SQUIDS FOR
MID-ATLANTIC

[Deep C]

The beak on my 16" slob slayer sword squids are about the size of a pea. If you extend that out to what would pack a beak that size I'd have to add a few spreaders to the riggers and a hydraulic reel to haul it...

[WAHOONBOX]

ONE OF THE MOST INTERSTING THREADS FROM SFC THIS WEEK................

VERY COOL.

[Nauti Natured]

That is freaking crazy!!

Can you imagine seeing that thing coming to the side of the boat? Would be a strange fight for sure. Surge after surge.

[Bert Rodgers]

Cool beans Paul, and BTW thanks for the numbers

Bert