Big Squid - If Taken Off Whale Menu Are We On Theirs?

Question

Yes, squid are known to eat each other and anything else they can catch. Giant Squid require a lot of food which our industry keeps harvesting. Squid can and do rise from the deeps. Name landfall

near where deep rising of huge hungry horror could possibly occur.

Answer 1

The past few years there have been pretty frequent runs of "Humboldt" squid off southern California. These get up to about 50 pounds (or probably bigger), and reportedly scare gamefish like barracuda out of the area. I think their population is up because their predators or competitors for the same food (big sharks, tuna, etc.) have been overfished in recent years, and they're just filling the void in the ecosystem. But it might also be a result of climate change.

Anyway, I haven't heard of these creatures attacking swimmers off So. Cal., but I have heard of them biting divers south off Baja California.

Answer 2

90% of worry time is wasted time mate you have more of a chance getting hit by lightening than a squid even biting you while you are pinning it on a 3 ought hook going after white seabass.

I was on a boat out of davey's locker (newport beach ca.) on an epic event eighteen years ago when after the twilight boat had limited on sand and calico bass, barracuda and even eight halibut (epic night fishing) we headed back in early before ten pm and stopped over the fissure as the captain saw on his lowrance something big coming up from the bottom so we swung the booms turned on the lights threw a few scoops ov chovies over and four to five foot squid appeared. Already dead frokm non stop action we all got on it and filled the deck with so much you could not see the flooring no one got bit even on the feet or ankles.