{"id":261009,"date":"2010-02-01T11:47:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T16:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0128773f334d970c"},"modified":"2010-02-01T13:44:28","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T18:44:28","slug":"orange-county-fishermen-angle-for-unusual-catch-giant-squid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/261009","title":{"rendered":"Orange County fishermen angle for unusual catch: Giant squid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Squid\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0128773f35ec970c \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0128773f35ec970c-800wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"Squid\"><\/img><\/a> An invasion of giant squid in Orange County has fishermen and women hitting the waters off Newport Beach, angling for an unusual catch.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe squid, some up to 60 pounds and 4 feet long, were first caught Thursday afternoon, and anglers began making twilight expeditions Friday night to catch the nocturnal sea creatures, which spend daytime close to the ground and rise to the surface at night.<\/p>\n<p>\nRobert Woodbury, manager at Newport Landing Sportfishing, said anglers who signed up to fish on one of the company\u2019s evening excursions had caught about 400 squid since Friday night.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/outposts\/2010\/01\/saltwater-fish-count.html\">The squid,<\/a> which tend to run in the 20- to 40-pound range, are somewhat elusive, tending to follow a food source, such as anchovies, rather than a season.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear when the squid will leave the area, but as long as they stay, fishermen say they will chase them every night. The anglers come in two main types, Woodbury said: Those hungry for the relatively pricey delicacy, and the sports angler eager to tangle with a feistier sea creature.<\/p>\n<p>\n \u201cMost of the fish we catch are better to eat, but they don\u2019t give you much of a fight,\u201d Woodbury said. <\/p>\n<p>These squid, on the other hand, do not\u00a0 stop struggling even after getting hooked and tossed into the boat.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;They\u2019re trying to crawl around and blow ink all over everybody,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe squid make for a messier prize, but that is part of the fun, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\n \u201cWhen they\u2019re lifted out of the water \u2026 they become a giant squirt gun,\u201d Woodbury said. \u201cChances are you\u2019re gonna take a faceful or a chestful of water \u2013 and probably ink \u2013 when you pull them out \u2026 everybody laughs.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Amina Khan<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Fisherman with a giant squid. 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The squid, some up to 60 pounds and 4 feet long, were first caught Thursday afternoon, and anglers began making twilight expeditions Friday night to catch the nocturnal sea creatures, which spend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}