Just finished packing the lobsters. Waiting for the truck. A sunset like this at the dock makes it tolerable.
click the pic for the larger version- it’s a keeper.
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Trapper John Setting Lobster Traps In 12 Foot Seas Yesterday
Steve Clings On To The Totes Of Bait While George Gets Ready To Hand Set Each Trap Off The Stern.
Good Times!
This is the kind of work for only the hard core. Most men would be curled up in the fetal position down below puking their brains out. But the boys aboard the Trapper John slogged their way through a brutal day at sea.
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Greasin’ the Bearing
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see that rubber disk mat that Matt Ring is fixing back into place on the deck of The Stanley Thomas?
That rubber disk mat covers the hatch which Mark just climbed down into to grease the shaft bearing. The shaft is what connects the transmission to the propeller. The easier the shaft turns the smoother the boat runs. Simple right? The sucky part is climbing down into the bilge with only about 3 feet of clearance to get to said bearing where the grease fitting resides. You can see Mark with the paper towel wiping off the sludge from down in the bilge- Good Times.
Video coming tomorrow.
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Hot Tuna Offloads A Tuna Next Door Video
Many Tuna Buyers Have These Trucks With Winches attached To The Back To Offload Tuna. They can travel up and down the coast as the tuna migrate with the season.
Pictures Coming
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Albino Lobster Landed At Captain Joe and Sons Video
This is just way too much of a coincidence to have two incredibly rare lobsters landed in the same week. I wonder if it has to do with warm water temperatures
Landed 7/23/10
to view the other Mutated lobsters that I’ve documented on Good Morning Gloucester Click This Link
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Unbelievable! Twice In One Week! Only The Second Albino Lobster We’ve Ever Landed Out of Probably 10 Million
This Albino Was landed Today. Out of probably (I’m guessing 10 million) lobsters I’ve seen landed at our dock over the years this is only the second total albino one I’ve seen.
To top it all off it gets landed in the same week as the triple pincher clawed lobster we got in on Saturday. I wonder if the warm water is making these mutated lobsters more active because it is way too much of a coincidence. HD video coming in about an hour or two.
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Nate Goes All Mr T On Us
You may remember Nate as one of the two insane backmen aboard Tuffy’s Degelyse. Well Nate went and got himself a new Mohawk. Nice!
Here are some videos with the boys from last season-
and here is when the greenhorn Adam filled in for Sean-
celebrating after the last trap comes out of the water for the 2009 season-
Moose knuckle madness
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More Sea Creature Oddities At The Dock- Triple Pincher Lobster
Video Coming Tomorrow
Add this to the list of lobster freaks I’ve never seen.
Here’s the video-
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Scotty Horne’s Boy Is Destined To Be Great Fisherman
I can see it in this kid. The way he climbs all over the boat without any fear. The way he grabs the fish and loves everything about being out on the water. Mark my words- in 15 years this kid will be a great Gloucester fisherman (that is if they let you catch any fish by then or if the entire industry hasn’t been bought out by big corporations which will make it impossible for a young person to make break into it).
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Ginormous Barnacles Landed At Captain Joe and Sons Video
I just love that the word ginormous has officially been added to the dictionary, don’t you?
For more pictures and videos of strange stuff landed at our dock you can check out these slide shows-
Freaks Of The Lobster and Crab World Down The Docks At Captain Joe’s
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Heading Out- The Stanley Thomas
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The LARGEST Barnacles I’ve Ever Seen IN All My Years At The Dock
I never knew there was a fleshy animal living inside the razor sharp barnacle enclosures. Tuffy brought this cluster of barnacles that had grown around a black fishing net float. In many of the pictures I included a quarter so you can get an idea of the scale of these humongous creatures. I also got some pretty decent video of the creatures opening their enclosures and the organism alive coming in and out of it. It’s straight out of Aliens. There are many pictures on the Barnacle Wikipedia page but nothing like these. It is a very comprehensive wiki page and interesting reading about the life cycle,adult anatomy and fossil records of barnacles.
From Wikipedia-
Barnacle
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia-
Thyrostraca, Cirrhopoda (meaning “curl-footed”), Cirrhipoda, and Cirrhipedia.
A barnacle is a type of arthropod belonging to infraclass Cirripedia in the subphylum Crustacea, and is hence related to crabs and lobsters. Barnacles are exclusively marine, and tend to live in shallow and tidal waters, typically in erosive settings. They are sessile suspension feeders, and have two nektonic larval stages. Around 1,220 barnacle species are currently known.[1] The name “Cirripedia” is Latin, meaning “curl-footed”.
Click on any of the pictures for the full sized versions- especially the first one where you can really see the moving organism. Video coming tonight
For comparisons sake look at the size of these barnacles which are more common and grow on our lobster traps. For scale the yellow wire they are attached to is less than a half a centimeter thick-
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The Stripers Are In
You don’t need any more proof than this. When Jeremy can catch ‘em off the dock you know they are just about suicidal.
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Miss Merideth Pulls Away From The Dock
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Johnny “Doc” Herrick- The Ironman Heads Out
Johnny has been going out more regularly than any other lobsterman in our fleet this year. The fisherman who goes out most consistently holds the “Ironman” title and so far this year Doc is the Ironman.
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Beautiful Industry- Captain Joe’s Black and White
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Cut Out Stern on The Dog and I vs Setting Table On The Stanley Thomas
Johnny Doc Herrick has lobster traps all ready to launch off the stern as lobster season is getting under way. If you notice the stern of the Dog and I is cut out level with the deck of the boat. Some guys like open sterns and others have closed sterns on which they build setting tables. The ones with setting tables like the Stanley Thomas slide the traps down the rail of the boat and set them off teh setting table. the ones with the cut out sterns set the traps off of teh deck of the boat.
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Lobster vs Crab Filmed Using Manfrotto Modopocket
I just got a new portable pocket camera support made by Manfrotto. Manfrotto is the gold standard in design and what the professionals use for camera supports such as tripods. Most professional photographers and videographers have some of their equipment. I was reading a tech site which listed top ten must have gadgets for photographers and the Manfrotto Modopocket was listed and it looked like a very interesting alternative to having to carry a tripod around for those situations when you want to take a long exposure or conduct an interview without the shake and vibration which can make an interview look less than professional (not that anything I do should ever be confused with something professional).
I went to the reviews on the little piece of equipment and the people who had purchased it all wrote glowing reviews. The prices I saw listed for them in a google shopping search ranged from $20-$35. I got mine from Adorama Camera for $20 including free shipping. I got to use it a bunch yesterday and I am extremely happy with the purchase.
It folds up flat at the base of the camera and makes my Sony DSC H20 still pocketable which to me is crucial. The camera you can’t pocket is worth 20% of the camera I can always have on me to capture stuff for you guys. The construction is solid and engineering a marvel. I’m really digging it.
Check out the first video I took with it below. Click on the HD version to see the results I was able to achieve shooting inside of a lobster crate with zero clearance. The camera was sitting flush inside the back of the crate. The sound you hear during the lobster vs crab segment is the hum of our lobster tank pumps.
Here’s a link to where you can get it
Here is a bunch of pictures of different people using the Tiny Manfrotto Modopocket
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Johnny “Doc” Herrick And Mate Prepare Gear To Set Aboard The Dog and I
Gloucester Zen Video Coming Soon Featuring The Boys At Work
Good Morning Gloucester 