23 lb Lobster

yak · Mar 2, 2005

Dang, I gotta start diving south of P-town in no-upper-limit waters! Look at the size of this sucker! Ya think it was pulled by a diver? I find it hard to believe something this big could make it into a pot.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050301/480/paks10203011906

MSilvia · Mar 2, 2005

I'm glad it's going to a zoo, but you can always find a bigger pot Jack!

decapoddiver · Mar 2, 2005

Don't whine about your poor bug seasons and then say you wish you could catch bugs like that. The big ones are exponentially better breeders. That one could produce more than about twenty 2 lb'ers.

BTW...Don't let me ever see a diver with a big one either :whack:

yak · Mar 2, 2005

MSilvia:
I'm glad it's going to a zoo, but you can always find a bigger pot Jack!

Matt,

I was referrring to a trap. Can something that size get into a standard trap?

(I have a homebrewing pot that could hold him and a few friends for a nice hot tub experience.)

ScubaFreak · Mar 2, 2005

dang...thats one big mama of a crusty fishie....

yak · Mar 2, 2005

decapoddiver:
Don't whine about your poor bug seasons and then say you wish you could catch bugs like that. The big ones are exponentially better breeders. That one could produce more than about twenty 2 lb'ers.

BTW...Don't let me ever see a diver with a big one either :whack:

Dec,

I play by the rules and expect everyone I dive with (or near) to do the same. I've held some monsters in my hand, just wish I could take one home once in a while.

You make a good point, though. And with the shell disease rampant south of the cape, it makes you wonder why the industry isn't calling for upper limits to protect the larger breeders.

ps I had a good season last year. Not piggish, just good. Between the three of us regular boat diving buddies, we never went home empty handed.

MSilvia · Mar 2, 2005

Oh... I don't know if it would fit in a trap or not. I don't have much experience with them. I totally agree with you Dec... I'd rather see it in a zoo than on a plate, but unless it's going to be part of some kind of aquaculture program, I'd rather see it in the breeding population than in a zoo.

scubastew · Mar 2, 2005

Probably was taking a nap "on" the pot!!

>> I think we all agree, it's all cute to have it in a museum tank but we'd all prefer it in the wild breeding

decapoddiver · Mar 2, 2005

gerardnealon · Mar 2, 2005

wow, I have a hard time calling that a bug!! ;-)

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