We have been inspecting the decks every morning and been keeping track of the record number of fish we have been catching. Today seems to be the winner. We had 5 flying fish and more than forty squid. Matt and Bill counted more so I am giving you the lower number-I think they stopped counting.
We have been reading the tales about squid and the sizes they can grow to be. One sailor reported catching a huge one on his reel and tried taking it off and was treated to a nice spray of acid in the face and on the clothes. It supposedly tried to pull him in the sea! According to the Cruising Chef Cookbook he says the deep sea squid can achieve a weight of over 300lbs. I don't think we will be catching anything or serving up anything that immense. We usually look at them and heave them overboard with a fleeting thought -just fleeting- of cooking them up for breakfast. Flying fish can be cooked up with eggs on some ships-not this one-yet. So if we see some whale of a squid I think we will just quietly let sleeping squid ...alone!
Rosemary, Bill and Matt