Fishermen Tattoos- Jerry McKay, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Fishermen Tattoos- Jerry McKay
Category: lobster
Summer Time Is Lobster Eating Time
A couple of days ago Dennis Silva, owner of the Topside Grill stopped by the dock to pick up his lobsters for the restaurant as he does daily. He gets them daily because he is a freak for freshness and quality and wants the freshest possible lobsters each day.
Anyway a couple of our lobstermen were offloading when Dennis showed up and I mentioned to them how Dennis has a lobster dinner on his menu for $13.99. It made the guys feel good that the guy that was buying the lobsters that they just sold me were going to a guy that was marketing them right.
A major beef with lobstermen is when places charge ridiculous prices for lobsters and make them unaffordable for the average person when in reality they aren’t that much money to put on a menu.
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Toby Burnham Checks This Bluefish’s Guts To See What It’s Been Eating
Toby Burnham Checks This Bluefish’s Guts To See What It’s Been Eating, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Peter Mondello Making A New Setting Table
Here’s Pete Mondello and Billy working on a new setting table for the Allison Carol.
When Pete hauls his ten pot trawls he will stack the pots along that setting table after they have been re-baited and then he will set the traps off the back of this “setting table”
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Lobster Trap Rocking Chairs Pic From Kristin Michel
This just in from guest contributor Kristin Michel-
“Hey Joe –
What do you make of this furniture? I was in Maine visiting my in-laws and just had to stop and take a picture for you. Believe it or not, the chairs are much more comfortable than they look!
Kristin”
Lobster Trap Rocking Chairs Pic From Kristin Michel, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Props To The Lobster Pool!
The Lobster Pool Restaurant took home best honors under the seafood shack category. Thats a big honor and I love that they beat out Woodman’s. Of course they did though, they know where to get the best lobsters!
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Joe Mondello Readies The Boat To Go Lobstering
You see how the traps are all set along the outside rail of the boat? Joe is going to set out some gear today. This is a ten pot trawl and all those traps are connected by a ground line with buoys at each end to mark where the traps are set in the ocean so when he goes back out he can find them by looking for his specially painted buoys.
Joe Mondello Readies The Boat To Go Lobstering, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Johnny Mondello’s Lobster Skiff
Here is Johnny Mondello’s lobster red lobster skiff. Johnny built a plywood setting table for his traps so when he hauls them up he can place them on that plywood setting table to clean them out and rebait them. This is the perfect little skiff to fish the rocks (also known as fishing the bushes) when the lobsters are in tight to shore.
Johnny Mondello’s Lobster Skiff, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Added A Couple New Slide Shows In The Picture Section
If you click on the “Pics” just under the header on the top of the page I added a couple of new slide shows which I think are worth checking out.
One is The Gloucester at Dawn series, and another is a Lobster series.
Here is the link if you’re too technologically challenged to seek out the pics page up top- click here
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The Secret Lives of Lobsters at Dogtown Book Shop
While delivering (what else?) lobsters this morning I spied this hardcover edition of the Secret Lives of Lobsters at the Dogtown Book Shop for $10. A steal.
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Double Claw Lobster
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Again And Again Limited Edition Badass Lobster Bag
If you click the picture and select “all sizes” you can see the bag up close and in greater detail.
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Touch of Grey Family Affair
Here Scotty Horne pulls away from the dock with two of his sons after a day of lobstering. Not sure if you can make it out but his little one is sitting up on the dash just to Scotty’s left.
Touch of Grey Family Affair, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Mr Not-So-Jinglenuts Digs The Mrs One Of A Kind Lobster Bag!
How cool is the whole concept anyway? Bags made from recycled sails.
The material is obviously perfect because it is strong and durable and weather resistant. The used sails were going to end up clogging up some landfill but now are being made into beautiful works of functional art.
I mean it all makes such perfect sense. Hell, even Mr JJ Not-So Jinglenuts digs it. And if Mr JJ Not-So-Jinglenuts digs em, they must be CAF
Mr Not-So-Jinglenuts Digs The Mrs One Of A Kind Lobster Bag!, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Again And Again Limited Edition Badass Lobster Bag
Freida made the Mrs a special edition lobster bag upon request. I personally think it’s the baddest ass bag in the planet!
If you’re really really nice and ask Freida she might make you one too. Call her at her shop (978)-407-7849
Again And Again Limited Edition Badass Lobster Bag, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Lobster Boat
This is one of the prettiest lobster boats I’ve ever seen. I’m not sure if this guy fishes it(my guess is he doesn’t) but boy this boat has some pretty lines.
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Massachusetts Whale Safe Lobster Bands
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Whale Safe Green Lobster Band Article From Jay Lindsay-AP
Mass. lobstermen promote practices as whale safe
BOSTON (AP) — New green rubber bands that will bind the claws of Massachusetts lobsters beginning this weekend won’t save the lobsters from the dinner table. But they signify a state initiative aimed at saving whales.
Lobsters caught in state waters will be given the bands, stamped “Massachusetts” and depicting whale tails, to highlight the state’s efforts to make the seas safer for whales by requiring lobstermen to use rope to connect their traps that rests on the ocean floor, rather than line that floats and could entangle whales.
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Lobster Claw Regeneration Slide Show
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Pinkie?
Think we should name him Pinkie?
Lobster Claw Regeneration Pictures, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Good Morning Gloucester 