Pots are in the water

[EngstromNK]

I got the V in the water last week and put the lobster pots in Saturday morning. Hopefully check them tomorrow for the first time this season. If I have the same luck as last year we will be having lobster about twice a week.

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[Sean]

Nice ;D I was given a few pots over the winter, I need to look into getting a rec. liscenes here in RI

[Blue_Runner]

2nd, I'll send you my address and a big block of dry ice. Look for it at the end of the week ;)

:-* ;D

[charlie_the_tuna]

i'll go ya one better.

i'll drive up and meet ya half way.

[EngstromNK]

My biggest problem is that two of my kids would eat it everyday of the week. Last year my ten year old was complaining, "I haven't eaten lobster in three days!" I remember when I was a kid and maybe we would get some once a summer.

Checking the pots with the kids is fun. You never know what you are going to bring up.

spider crabs
blue crabs
hermit crabs
fluke
tatog
scup

and really tasty lobsters

[Pipe_Dream]

WE WANT PICS! ;D ;D

[Blue_Runner]

No, we want BUGS!!


GIVE US BUGS! ;D

[EngstromNK]

Isn't that the way. Even my friends around town have asked when they can come over for dinner.

Sean - I don't know the RI laws but in Mass it is a $40 permit for 10 pots. Mass Dept of Marine Fisheries handles it. Good luck. Striper racks make great bait. I try to save as many bluefish I can for bait as well.

[Blue_Runner]

2nd, I've decided that I'm 99% sure you are lying. I mean, dang dude. I'm gonna have to see some proof.

Like in person. :D

Mail to:
Blue Runner
555 Blue Runner Drive
Blue Runnerville, NC

;D

[macojoe]

I use to run pots here on the Cape, but I fish all around and sometimes not get to the pots for a while so I got rid of them.
You got to ck every 3 days at least or they start killing each other!

I use to bring them to work, Chicken's and sel for $5 each, People hated it when I stoped!!

I would eat like 2 a year, My mom would eat every day, wife once a week.

I am a Clam man, nothing better then a good old Clam Boil!!

[EngstromNK]

Where would you put them MJ? I have mine off the Elizabeth Islands in Lackey's Bay. It is only about 8 miles from Falmouth Harbor.

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[macojoe]

I live in Yarmouth, and there lays the problem!! There is no fish in the midcape!!

So you always have to go some were else, I use to fish Chatam all the time and thats why they were there.

Then I started going to Vinyard sound, and back and fourth, so it got to be a real pain, so I just stoped!

Now I fish Vinyard 80% and Chatam 20% and I have no idea were would be good in the sound? There isn't a lot of pots there.

I use Green Pond most of the time, But i hear the new Falmouth ramp is great?? I have not seen it yet. We will have to hook up this year some time!!

[Sean]

Yup, $40.00 here to for upt o 5 pots. Just sent it in yesterday. ;D
Are you in Falmouth? I lived on Marivista Ave. for most of my life, ran a 17ft Whaler out of Great Bay.

[EngstromNK]

MJ - I have not used the ramp in Falmouth Harbor but it looks nice. I have walked around it and go by it all the time. It does not get very much traffic during the week. I take care of a property diagonally across from the ramp and there is room for me to keep my boat for the season. It is a very sweet deal. Hope to see you this year.

Sean - I have lived in Falmouth since '99. My wife used to summer in Woods Hole and I in Eastham. Got tired of the rat race outside NYC in NJ and made the move.

[EngstromNK]

Went out yesterday to check the pots. Only one bug, but he was about a pound and a half. The old timers always say the first week is a bust due to the bubbles the traps give off. Steamed him last night and we will have lobster salad on crackers for an appetiser tonight.

[macojoe]

I take care of a property diagonally across from the ramp and there is room for me to keep my boat for the season

room for two you said! ;) hAts a good deal saves on all the trailing! I am going to have to go look at that ramp soon, Maybe while I recover from surgery I will take a ride?

Only one bug, but he was about a pound and a half.

Water cold might be a tad early? How do you do most of the year?

Yup, $40.00 here to for upt o 5 pots

I thought it was 10 pots??

[parishht]

Can you post pics of your lobster pots and what is a good bait to use?

[EngstromNK]

MJ - I only put my pots out May,June, July. Before that the boat is on the blocks and once August rolls around the water is so warm I don't catch anything.

In Mass you are allowed 10 pots in RI it is only 5.

Par - I swear by Bluefish. Nice and oily. Brings them in better than anything else since there is a moritorium on herring. I have used skates before and racks from stripers with OK success. I have also tried racks from fluke which was a waste of time.

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[macojoe]

Just regular pots and most fish racks are great bait!!

http://www.lobstering.com/fun%20lobster%20traps.htm