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Fishermen Haul in Monster Squid Off the Humboldt Coast

A pair of local fishermen hauled in a monstrous 14-foot, 150-pound squid while bottom trawling 10 miles from the Humboldt Bay Entrance Channel earlier this month. Fishermen Shane Ranstrom and Clark Ward of the “Joy Ann” say they were in 1,500 feet of water when they caught the enormous cephalopod on June 14. “Pulled up the Kraken last trip,” Ranstrom wrote on Instagram. >click to read< 17:02