I'd like to tell you that I missed reporting on a lot of a fish caught in the last three days. What I failed to report in a timely manner was: 

Tuesday, out of four boats launched, John Rosasco caught a halibut on the bar on a jig (That must be why they call him Jigger John). No other fish. 

Wednesday, nobody launched but the wind blew plenty. 

Thursday, only a couple of launches and high boat was John Rosasco again with one halibut trolled up on McClure's Beach. That was it for game fish.

     Here's what Gage and I caught today. It worked out to about 12 gallons of squid. That's a lot of cephalopods, especially if you're cleaning them. We cleaned some but most of what we kept for ourselves will be bait. The fried calimari for dinner was really good. Calimari pasta tomorrow. I have been asked what the trick is to catch squid in this manner. The answer is, like most fishing, luck, and knowing an opportunity when you see it. If you've ever seen seagulls mobbing over a sea lion that's eating a salmon it stole off a hook, then you know what a squid ball looks like. Murres (or other diving birds but in my limited experience it's been Murres) dive down and chase the squid up to the surface. The seagulls then get a chance to feed themselves off of this accessible bounty. We saw the gulls from a quarter mile away and ran over. The birds bailed but the squid, still huddled together to avoid the birds' predation, made a ball about the size of a picnic table. On the second try Gage filled the net. It took the two of us to haul the squid into the boat. For the record, dark colored squid are pissed off. Also for the record, the wind blew pretty hard today and was abusive to most boaters on the water. We tried Ten Mile and Trees to Elephant for a goose egg. Thank goodness for loligo (doryteuthis?) opalescens.