Sometimes when I’m watching a trap come up through the water I can just tell there is something huge in it. That was certainly the case yesterday afternoon as I was hauling a trap in Peabbles Cove. I saw the trap coming up and was surprised to see something massive in the back of a trap. It looked too big to be a lobster but as the trap broke the surface I realized that it was the biggest lobster I have seen so far this year. I usually only see two or three lobsters this big every year, not because they are not down there, but because they are too big to fit into a trap. This lobster probably weighed around 10 pounds and was so strong I had a hard time holding onto him. You have to be very careful with a lobster this big because if he ever got a hold of one of your fingers he’d probably keep it. After this picture I threw him back into the ocean where he belongs. Another way we protect our resource is to release all lobsters over a certain size in order to protect the breeding population. He’s probably been roaming the bottom of the ocean for twenty years and because he’s protected he’ll hopefully be around for at least another twenty more.
-Captain Curt