Another lobster pot adventure

[RJJ]

So after last week's lobster pot adventure which we happily resolved without concern...except to the fisherman who is minus one pot and its contents.

We are anchored in a small bay in Galicia, with a stern line to the rocks ashore. A fisherman has put a pot about a boat length and a half from my starboard bow, which is lee-side to the prevailing wind. So that as soon as I slip the stern line there is significant risk the yacht or anchor chain blows straight into his effing pot. It's so close I can't even be sure he hasn't put it on my anchor chain.

When I say it's a small bay, there's perhaps a hundred other places he could have laid his pot and kept clear of us.

I can only think he's acting in stupidity. If it's deliberate then it's an odd way to have a go at a yachtie, given the obvious risk I just decide to perform a prophylactic potendectomy (which I will probably do if it's windy from the prevailing direction when we leave later today).

If it's calm of course I will manoeuvre around it.

What's at the bottom of a lobster pot? Can I just heave it up from the dinghy and kindly relocate it to a safe place?

Has anyone else ever encountered this rather surprising situation? Thanks.

 

[Neeves]

We have a Tasmanian regulation lobster pot which are historically made from some form of native willow and are weighted with stones, it can be a bit rough in the Southern Ocean. Our pot is less romantic, if willow might be considered romantic - I suppose it depends on what turns you on and maybe how old you are - but has no stones and being made from re-bar weighs in at a healthy 26kgs.

Ours is not light - be warned.


Stop complaining - just think how lucky you are and get the recipe books out, you carry recipe books??

I'd leave just before dawn, choose your timing carefully. I'd lift the pot as you leave, as if entangled with your yacht, empty said pot of catch - release pot and move on. Don't hang around

Steamed are a bit conventional - lightly steamed with garlic and sauced with sauce made from soy sauce with ginger and spring onion - to die for. You could do this every couple of days - but only retrieving catch in the dark

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth

Jonathan

Really pleased to read you are using a stern line - take a picture and post - it will be an educational to us all

And I have not used the 'damned' and repellant 'A' word once!

 

[Straightman21]

So after last week's lobster pot adventure which we happily resolved without concern...except to the fisherman who is minus one pot and its contents.

We are anchored in a small bay in Galicia, with a stern line to the rocks ashore. A fisherman has put a pot about a boat length and a half from my starboard bow, which is lee-side to the prevailing wind. So that as soon as I slip the stern line there is significant risk the yacht or anchor chain blows straight into his effing pot. It's so close I can't even be sure he hasn't put it on my anchor chain.

When I say it's a small bay, there's perhaps a hundred other places he could have laid his pot and kept clear of us.

I can only think he's acting in stupidity. If it's deliberate then it's an odd way to have a go at a yachtie, given the obvious risk I just decide to perform a prophylactic potendectomy (which I will probably do if it's windy from the prevailing direction when we leave later today).

If it's calm of course I will manoeuvre around it.

What's at the bottom of a lobster pot? Can I just heave it up from the dinghy and kindly relocate it to a safe place?

Has anyone else ever encountered this rather surprising situation? Thanks.

Just be careful that there is not more than one pot on the line. If he is shooting single pots then it should only be the [metal] pot and no weight Larger numbers of pots often have a deadweight at each end of the string but you will soon know as soon as you start pulling it. He may not be being awkward, lobsters are territorial and he may be even now sitting at home cursing the bloody yottie who has anchored so close to one of his favourite spots

 

[Boater Sam]

Who was there first?

 

[Mister E]

Who was there first?

The Lobster.

 

[Boater Sam]

The Lobster.

Ah, but how can you be certain of that? Is the fisherman older than the lobster, I suspect he will be.

 

[RJJ]

Who was there first?

Yep, we were there first.

Turns out he had hung a string of two dozen or more pots around the bay in a semi-circle. He just happened to drop his starting end, complete with buoy, just off my bows. He came back to pick them up an hour or so before we left; all empty having only been in place six hours or so.

Seemed rather odd. I thought potters left them in place for a couple of days.

I tried in my pidgin Spanish to suggest his buoy was rather close, he told me "is perfecto". Anyway, no harm done this time.