Large squid landed by anglers in Orange County

AP on Bakersfield Californian ^ | 3/4/07 | AP

[NormsRevenge]

They're not quite sea monsters, but anglers here are landing squid nearly 6 feet long, far larger than a typical catch.

One Newport Landing Sportfishing boat came back Saturday with a load of squid that averaged 30 pounds each, and 5 feet in length.

A 4-pound squid is typical, but the largest in the catch weighed 50 pounds and was nearly 6 feet long.

"People were getting wet and trying to avoid getting inked," said Newport Landing manager Steffanie Hillerstein.

The boat was fishing the waters just south of Laguna Beach.

Anglers, using 10-inch long lures, needed nearly 10 minutes to land each of the large squid.

[Alas Babylon!]

I don't think large, gigantic, or even colossal squid should count as "cryptoids" anymore, do you? I mean, they've been scientifically discovered and no one is disputing their existence.

Let's have more bigfoots (bigfeet?/sasquatches), werewolves, giant raptors, sea monsters, chubacapras, etc, etc...