When there are herring fishing closures it’s time to break out the frozen product.
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Herring Flats
Category: lobster
Allison Wile- Lobsteman
Here’s Allison and Tim Wile, the husband/wife lobstering team.
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Sam Lowers Bait Onto The Lady Marie
Sam operates his lobster operation as a solo act.
He gathers whatever fish gurry he can find and then pulls his truck loaded with the totes of gurry down to his parking spot at the State Fish Pier. He parks and then heads down the ramp to warm up his boats’ engine. Then he heads back up the ramp and around to his truck that has the fish gurry on it which he will pull over to the loading boom (in the picture). He parks the truck there with the totes of gurry and then walks back around and down the ramp to his warmed up boat and then pulls the boat up to the dock where the loading boom is. He gets off the boat, climbs up the ladder and hooks up the totes of gurry to lower down on his boat. The boom swings out over his boat and once the bait is aboard his boat he then hops in his truck and parks it in the State Fish Pier parking lot. Then he climbs down the ladder and heads out lobstering with his bait aboard.
Sounds confusing right? It’s a lot of work.
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Weathervanes At Gloucester Service Center
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Peter Mondello Readies New Gear
Here is Peter Mondello offloading some newly built lobster traps.
Peter is the exception and not the rule as he builds all his traps himself. Most guys buy their lobster traps from a trap builder like Winchester Fishing Gear, Friendship Trap Company or Eaton Traps.
Peter and his brother Joe use a shop under their father’s cobblers shop across from Saint Ann’s Church to build new traps and repair broken ones.
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Toby Burnham Should Be On Survivor Video
Watch Toby Sample Some Rotten Bait
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Allison Wile- Lobsteman
Allison Wile is a lobsterman. She lobsters with husband Tim.
She says that she likes to go-go-go and get through hauling the gear in a hurry while husband Tim likes to take his time and find just the right spots to set back the trawls as to no set his trawl over other lobstermen’s trawls. That’s a pretty considerate way to go lobster fishing. Some lobstermen are considerate while others will set their gear on top of yours even if they know you are set in a spot. That is when lobstermen have to break out the knife and cut each other’s trawl lines to get their gear to the surface. It can deter a guy from setting back in that location and drive him away from good lobstering. It can also start mini lobster wars where no one wins.
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Helen Parker Textiles-18 Month Lobster T Shirt
While at The Cape Ann Farmer’s Market on Harbor Loop I picked up this lobster baby t shirt for Snoop Mad. They didn’t have one in The Bean’s size or I would have got a matching one for her too.
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Blue Claw Lobster Regenerating Photos
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Blue Claw Lobster Regenerating Photos
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Blue Claw Lobster Regenerating Photos
Note that at the joints of the small crawling legs there are strong blue highlights too.
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Blue Claw Lobster Regenerating Photos
We got a lobster in yesterday that had a vibrant blue claw growing. It was a smaller claw that is in the process of regenerating but the blue was one of the deepest blue colors that I have ever seen on a lobster.
Blue Claw Lobster Regenerating Photos, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
To see some of the other freaky crustaceans we’ve had here over the past couple years you can clcik this link to the freaks of the lobster and crab world slide show
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Tony Gross’ Messed Up Claw
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Tony Gross’ Messed Up Claw
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Tony Gross Is A Cull
I knew something was wrong when Tony’s wife Abby pulled up to the dock with his lobsters. Abby never comes down the dock but this day was different.
Tony Got his finger stuck in the hauler and it ripped the tip off. Not good.
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Tony Gross Takes CJ Lobstering (click play to see video)
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Rush Phi Kappa Sigma At MIT!
The boys from Phi Kappa Sigma at MIT come every year for rush week to pick up a ton of lobsters to serve prospective rushees.
I thought MIT was primarily an engineering school but apparently they have their marketing down pretty good too!
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Yep, More Of The World’s Best Lobster Rolls From The Mrs
This week I provided the lobsters and the Mrs provided the preparation. Yum!
Think about this- stormy weekend, football on the tube, lobster rolls, and some hand picked out wine from my trusted wine aficionado advisor Toby Pett. Sounds about perfect to me.
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Salted Pogie
Due to a herring fishing shut down lobstermen will be using other types of bait such as pogies.
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Gloucester Perspectives- Erik Lorden Talks Lobster Rolls
Erik Lorden Talks Lobster Rolls and What It’s Like Having Anvils For Hands
Good Morning Gloucester 