Bass and Lobster

[redthunder]

Alrite lads I went out Sunday with the lobster hook and the bass rod as the tides were big enough to get the holes i know for the lobster and pick some reds :unsure: i had one lobster out of one hole and put in a pool while i checked the other hole but the wind was holding the tide in so was a bit tricky trying to feel for a lobster with water lapping in the hole while i was checking the hole by the waters edge a big wave came and flooded the pool i had put the lobster in gutted i looked but he was long gone :unsure: Nevermind i still had two holes to check and one had a resident at home after 2 minutes with my hook i had him out and safely in the bucket so off i went to pick some red crab found 5 red softies enough for a chuck fished 2 hours on te flood and missed one Bass and had one and my mate pulled out one aswel so i had a tea fit for a king :blink: :blink:

[kev 1]

Nice

[Cranfield]

Verrrrry nice, well done.

[malkiserow]

I am salivating just looking at the picture

[bullet boy]

A good day-well done.

[pavman]

very nice, well done

[tiercel]

Somebodys been down the Sker!!

[scallopdiver]

You have the makings of two excellent dinners there mate,well done

[Teal]

I have tried once before to look for cribbens with just a slight turn at the end of the wire. I appreciate you get to know the rocks and holes, but are there any guides as to which holes hold a lobster, or is it just a case of giving everything a poke and seeing. For example do they only inhabit holes which are exposed at very low tide?

[Chard]

I have tried once before to look for cribbens with just a slight turn at the end of the wire. I appreciate you get to know the rocks and holes, but are there any guides as to which holes hold a lobster, or is it just a case of giving everything a poke and seeing. For example do they only inhabit holes which are exposed at very low tide?

 

 

It depends a lot on what type of beach it is. Where I used to live in Kent, you could tell that something significant was in a hole by the spill that it had excavated from the hole, it looked like a "fresh" pile of sand and shell fragments and didn't look right on the mussels/stones/barnacles around it. However, I couldn't tell from that whether it was a lobster or an edible crab (or a ******* Conger Eel on one occasion ). I just had to get the hook in there and see what came out .

Great times, I must move back to the coast one of these days

[Teal]

Thanks- that's very interesting. Last two questions, can you find them in these holes all year round Secondly is it only the rocks which are on the outside of the formation, and are typically only at the base - ie level with the sand - that have occupants in them, I would imagine so as I can't see lobsters levitating

[redthunder]

Thanks- that's very interesting. Last two questions, can you find them in these holes all year round Secondly is it only the rocks which are on the outside of the formation, and are typically only at the base - ie level with the sand - that have occupants in them, I would imagine so as I can't see lobsters levitating

I use the same 5 holes all the time but they only show on a tide thats bigger than 12.3m on the swansea scale. i can normally get two or so lobsters out of these holes unless there's a conger up the hole all i do if there is a conger at home is get him out and chuck him in the sea a couple of hundred yards away that does the trick cos when i check the holes next tide i normally come up trumps

[Chard]

Thanks- that's very interesting. Last two questions, can you find them in these holes all year round Secondly is it only the rocks which are on the outside of the formation, and are typically only at the base - ie level with the sand - that have occupants in them, I would imagine so as I can't see lobsters levitating

 

 

I've only ever found them around the base, never at higher levels. That might be because they prefer a sandy/gravelly/shell "floor" and the holes higher up tend to get dry. I don't suppose it has to necessarily be on the outside of a formation, if there's a way into the middle at base level. More often than not though, there's no way into the middle for bigger critters.

 

To be honest, I don't remember the times of year but I think I did best in Autumn and Winter. Crabs tend to peel in Spring and are then unsuitable for eating and then there's the breeding thing, I seem to recall they used to head off into deeper water for that. Used to go for prawns in Summer. I see you need a ******* license now

Edited August 9, 2008 by Chard

[scallopdiver]

Are you sure you need a licence?The law says you can fish 5 creels and land 5 crabs +1 lobster per day without a licence so surely you can cleek[thats what you call it in ulster]a few holes at low tide without the long arm of the fisheries dept being too bothered.

We fish 90 pots and i took 120lb of lobsters to market for a weeks fishing today, but i still love cleeking a fella out of his hole on a big spring tide,must be the hunting gene that we have in us!

The place that buys my lobster,he buys from all over ireland and scotland,

keep them in tanks and ship them to france/spain every week and as of this morning the owner reckoned he had approx 6 ton of lobsters waiting to go

,so they are still quite popular on the continent.

I must take a few pics the next time i am up with him and post some

[Teal]

Some great information, thanks. I am by the coast in September and will let you know how I get on.