Humboldt Squid strikes once again
For five straight days the San Pedro and Long Beach local fleets were enjoying some of the best local fishing of the year. The Pursuit from 22nd Street Landing in San Pedro, the Enterprise from Marina Sportfishing in Long Beach as well as the Icon from Long Beach Sportfishing had a great week of barracuda fishing and a sign of migratory sand bass.
In a normal year, thousands of sand bass are being taken up and down the Southern California coast in July; not in 2009. There has been very little if any sign of the barred sand bass that provide anglers with a decent fight and some great eating as well.
While there was not a tremendous amount of sand bass being metered by the local fleet, more and more sand bass were moving in and every day, more were being caught. That was until Wednesday when fishing ground to a halt.
Icon skipper Shawn Morgan said it could have just been one of those days when the fish don’t bite. That happens all the time as evident by the all-too-familiar line “you should have been here yesterday.”
But there was a new arrival in the past 24 hours to our local waters that may have something to do with the sudden downturn in fishing. For the first time this year, the Humboldt squid returned.
