Something Just Ain’t Right!
Tag: Lobstermen
An Unsuspecting Tuffy Prepares To Fuel Up The Degelyse
So Wrong!
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Light and Demolishing
Down the dock we have a saying. Well I should give props to mark Ring for being the first one I ever heard coin the phrase but it has been adopted by many of our lobstermen.
The phrase is used when the weathermen really fuck up a forecast and call for light and diminishing winds but in actuality the wind is heavy throughout the fishing day making for horrible fishing conditions.
Lobstermen and fishermen depend on weathermen to know when it is safe or manageable to go fishing. The day before yesterday was one of those days when the weathermen were calling for light and diminishing winds. The average forecast was for 5-10mph of wind.
In actuality the wind screamed out of the Northwest 20-35mph all day and it was bitterly cold.
One by one our lobstermen hit the dock and commented about the off-the-mark wind forecast.
It wasn’t light and diminishing. More like Light and Demolishing.
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Tuffy and The Boys Hit The Dock
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Trapper and Steve Call It A Night After A Long Day Lobstering
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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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Greetings From The Crew of the Degelyse
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Gone Fishing Is Going Fishing
Gil Mitchell’s Gone Fishing heads out of the harbor to haul some gear.
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Offloading Barnacle Encrusted Lobster Gear For Cleaning
I took these shots with my new cameraphone The HTC EVO. It tends to over saturate pictures and isn’t nearly as good a camera as my Sony DSC H20 but the beauty of it is that I can take a picture and post it to the blog in mere seconds. That is how I got you guys the Greasy Pole and Seine Boat results within 30 seconds of each finish beating every other media outlet by many hours and days.
I was sitting on the forktruck (the black bar in the middle is the mast of the forktruck) when I took these shots
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Mark Ring- An Oyster A Day!
Fish Stories
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Gloucester Zen Johnny “Doc” Herrick And Mate Aboard The Dog and I
Minimal Editing- Minimal Commentary-Just A Slice of Time On Gloucester Harbor
get that gear out there boys. It’s not gonna make any money in the yard!
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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
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They Wouldn’t Tattoo His Boss’ Name On His Hog So He Opted For The Lobster
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Mondello Boys Slide Show Featuring Joe, Pete and Geno
Entering tags on each photo I upload to flickr is sometimes a painstaking process but when you think about the sheer number of photos taken (say 100,000 or more) there would be absolutely no way to ever locate a particular photo without going through all 100,000 photos unless you have each one tagged with an identifying name.
It is through this tagging system that I can locate and isolate certain photos. It may be painstaking but the archive of photos from Gloucester and of my family that I can access with a few clicks of the keyboard are pretty remarkable.
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Celebrating With Tuffy and The Boys
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Sean and Nate Sit Atop The Last Load Of Lobster Gear Of The Season
When the last load of gear is loaded on the dock happy times ensue. Video at 8AM
Nate Sits Atop The Last Load Of Lobster Gear Of The Season, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Tuffy and Nate Bring Home A Load Of Lobster Gear
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Tuffy and Nate Prepare To Offload a Pile Of Lobster Gear
Here the boys are getting ready to offload a pile of lobster traps. The cold water temperature haas made the lobstering activity slow down to a crawl and the time will be better spent fixing broken gear and making repairs than going out to catch very few lobsters this time of year. When the last load of traps comes in it is a big relief for lobstermen. It’s the end of another season and hopefully they’ve made enough to carry them through the winter.
Tuffy and Nate Prepare To Offload a Pile Of Lobster Gear, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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The Boys Aboard The Degelyse Take Tiger’s Sloppy Seconds
You find love in the unlikeliest of places.
The Boys On The Degelyse Take Tiger’s Sloppy Seconds, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Good Morning Gloucester 
