I would recommend:
Get a lobster snare (the green one) and learn to use it. It will enable you to catch more lobster than any other method and it can be done without disturbing the other lobster in the hole so you can come back and get them too.
TAKE YOUR TIME!!! Too many people just dive right in and stir up all the lobster and the silt and then everything goes downhill. When you spot a lobster stop a distance away and analyze the situation first. Is it a deep or shallow hole? Are there more than one? What would be the best way to approach slowly. Then come up slowly to the hole but don't get your body too close. Take the lobster snare with the snare closed and slowly insert it so that the bent end is behind the lobster. Then tap him gently on the tail and he will walk out a little bit. Next extend the loop on the snare and put it over his tail, right up to where the main part of his body starts. When you tighten the snare you do so as fast as possible and pull him out in one smooth motion. Then grab him while he is still firmly in the snare and take the snare off and stuff him in the bag.
If you do it properly you can have 7 or 8 lobster in a line, out in the opening of a crevice, and you can come back and get each and every one without distrubing the others.
More lobster are lost because people hurry and just "jump right in" than for any other reason. Slow will win.
Get a lobster snare (the green one) and learn to use it. It will enable you to catch more lobster than any other method and it can be done without disturbing the other lobster in the hole so you can come back and get them too.
TAKE YOUR TIME!!! Too many people just dive right in and stir up all the lobster and the silt and then everything goes downhill. When you spot a lobster stop a distance away and analyze the situation first. Is it a deep or shallow hole? Are there more than one? What would be the best way to approach slowly. Then come up slowly to the hole but don't get your body too close. Take the lobster snare with the snare closed and slowly insert it so that the bent end is behind the lobster. Then tap him gently on the tail and he will walk out a little bit. Next extend the loop on the snare and put it over his tail, right up to where the main part of his body starts. When you tighten the snare you do so as fast as possible and pull him out in one smooth motion. Then grab him while he is still firmly in the snare and take the snare off and stuff him in the bag.
If you do it properly you can have 7 or 8 lobster in a line, out in the opening of a crevice, and you can come back and get each and every one without distrubing the others.
More lobster are lost because people hurry and just "jump right in" than for any other reason. Slow will win.
