How To Catch A Maine “Lobstah”
June 30, 2009
During my recent vacation trip around the state of Maine, Milt Inman and I had the pleasure of accompanying our friend Gordon on his lobster boat that he moors in Seal Harbor on Mount Desert Island.
Photo by Tom Remingon
This is Gordon’s lobster boat – “Jacquelyn”
Photo by Tom Remington
First you need to grab a small pitch fork and move the bait from the tub to a holding bin.
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I nice tub of ripe smelling herring seems to be the bait of choice today.
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Pulling traps is done mechanically these days and not so much by hand.
Photo by Tom Remington
Once the trap is up, hopefully you’ll find some legal-sized lobsters. Once the trap is cleaned out, it is baited again and dropped back into the sea.
Photo by Tom Remington
Lobster traps can claim more than just lobster. You might find various shelled creatures, including crabs. In this one instance a sea sculpin was found flopping around in the trap.
Photo by Tom Remington
Really, you do find an occasional lobster – hopefully a lot more than that. This lobster was a pretty good sized one but with tiny claws. Lobsters do tend to lose their claws and nature is kind to allow them to grow back. In this case they just hadn’t had the opportunity to get back to full size again.
Unfortunately, the fog refused to lift. Although Gordon is a very proficient and experienced seaman, he is uncomfortable about being on the water in the fog as he doesn’t have a lot of trust in other boaters. We checked perhabs 25 to 30 of his 70 traps and headed back to port.
Tom Remington
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