Well, this has been another eventful week. Besides our usual "shopping" we went with an institute student and his father lobster hooping. We went at 8:30 at night and it was very dark. We had to go about 30 minutes in a fishing-ski boat to get to the lobster nests.(or whatever)
It was so bumpy I felt like I was going to be thrown out of the boat a time or two, with the big rolling ocean waves it's a little scary. We had about 10 wire cage hoops that we put pieces of Macrael in and then let the cages down about 30 feet until they reached the bottom of the ocean. We had milk cartons with glow sticks in then to float and mark where we were leaving the cages. We put all the cages out and then went back to check them. Each cage would be like a surprise to see if our how many lobsters had come to eat the bait and were still in the cage when you pulled it up. Once you pull then up you have to measure them to see if they are big enough to eat. If they are less than 4 inches on the shell (main body shell) you have to throw themn back. We caught about 50 or so but only 4 were big enough to keep. It was pretty fun except that Don gets sea sick so he was miserable most of the time. Well, if this is successful in posting and being read we will continue later.
It was so bumpy I felt like I was going to be thrown out of the boat a time or two, with the big rolling ocean waves it's a little scary. We had about 10 wire cage hoops that we put pieces of Macrael in and then let the cages down about 30 feet until they reached the bottom of the ocean. We had milk cartons with glow sticks in then to float and mark where we were leaving the cages. We put all the cages out and then went back to check them. Each cage would be like a surprise to see if our how many lobsters had come to eat the bait and were still in the cage when you pulled it up. Once you pull then up you have to measure them to see if they are big enough to eat. If they are less than 4 inches on the shell (main body shell) you have to throw themn back. We caught about 50 or so but only 4 were big enough to keep. It was pretty fun except that Don gets sea sick so he was miserable most of the time. Well, if this is successful in posting and being read we will continue later.
