Lobster Pots!

[toobaz]

What is all that about?
It doesn't seem to matter how far you take your self offshore, these black flags are running up in front of you...............where's the control?
Can't seem to get away from the little buggers!
Baz

 

[KevB]

Bloody Fisherman

Just spent this morning taking the props off of my new boat to remove the discarded fishing net I picked up in the Solent on Sunday......

Ba$tards.

 

[toobaz]

Re: Bloody Fisherman

Had that last year after returning from 1000 miles cruise. Got back into Southampton waters straight into a submerged fishing net............£3500 and a week later I had the boat back in the water. A week after that I had them shrink rapped in palett plastic just coming out of the river Itchen.
Boating...............gets real expensive with this kind of running repair!
Baz

 

[claymore]

If you search back through to around November you will find that this topic probably ran for longer and with more derivatives than any other thread in the history of bulletin boards, globally across cyberspace and beyond into the realms of the dark side of the moon.

 

[toobaz]

Darkside of the Moon!

I wasn't around here a couple of months ago and to be truthful, I can't remember what I did yesterday, however I do remember the dark side of the moon and a good time was had by all!
It just goes to show that this bitch has credit....................what was the conclusion or was there one and maybe that thread should be continued?

Baz

 

[claymore]

Re: Darkside of the Moon!

Thats the sneakiest invitation to waken a sleeping lobsterpot thread I've ever encountered. The conclusion was that they are like busses. One minute there isn't a single one in sight and the next they are all over like a rash. Like buses the cost money if you get one - unlike buses there are no concessions here so OldGits,ToMo's, HLB's Coliholics are all liable for charges and like bus drivers planners, the people who decide where they are going to be, seem to take little notice of any other poor sod who is trying to use the area. We then moved into a higher plane discussion on the wants and needs of the fishing industry, Wops, spics, greasy deigos, useless British politicians, the euro, and the entrance to Portpatrick.
Hope this helps
regards
JS

 

[hlb]

Re: Heres One I Made Earlier

Now don’t you find that on a lovely summer day, whilst passing a particularly uninteresting coastline.
And especially if the auto pilot is tracking the GPS.
That you sit on the fly bridge getting quite board.
Until a whole host of Lobster pot buoys loom into sight. When you can turn the pilot off and zoom through the buoys just like skiing down a slalom course and pretend for a while that your some ace racing driver just doing the last lap. (Hence the title.) Even though having to come to a dead stop and backing up when the exit route doesn’t look too clear.

Now I was looking at shuttlecock the other day and they were parroting on about lobster pot buoys.
But at six knots it’s from a different perspective. But anyway not to steel there fire. That’s where the inspiration came from.

But then take the other side of the coin. Like rounding a headland on a wet day, the seas doing a good 5 or 6 and then of course you meet the over falls.

Of course you’ve long since gone down stairs, just to get out of the rain, the spray and even big waves coming over the top. And anyway you now need all the electric gismo’s you’ve got.

So your there on your todd. Because usually by this time, the wife has retired to the bathroom.

The boats taken on the feel of a submarine at periscope depth and your eyes are going dizzy looking at radar screens, chart plotters, compass and in between when the bow drops enough, through the screen.
Although that’s usually a bit of a waist of time. The wipers are going mad and there’s that much sea coming over that its rare to see anything.

But there it is! And another one. And another. Just a little black ball with sinister looking ropes attached.
Then your trying to hit the button on the autopilot, the boat hits the next wave and you miss.
Three or four attempts and your back on the wheel and steering franticly to miss the buoys.
The tales of the Nelson that wound its props together on a rope and sunk, comes vividly into mind at this time, and your throat goes dry.
The course you’ve picked to keep the boat on a some thing like even keel, has gone completely out of the window and for a moment or two, you haven’t a clue which direction your going in and neither do you care. Just as long as you miss those ropes.

Now I have tried and tested rope cutters on my boat, but that doesn’t mean, they work every time.
And the thought of being hung up by the tail in that stuff is awful frightening.

Is not it time these things were. Put on a chart and a Cardinal buoy by them. Big yellow flag!
Anything to tell you where they were going to be and a route to miss them by.

Well that’s enough ranting for a Sunday night.







Haydn

 

[toobaz]

Re: Darkside of the Moon!

You used to listen to that album as well!
Obviously OldGits,ToMo's, HLB's Coliholics must be slower with the mouse as we haven't heard from him.
Sneaky is it! Sneaky it is the way the little buggers come from nowhere, it wouldn't be so bad if the fisherman used logic in his approuch to his days work, instead he uses Colesman's conspiracy theory to join the dots and see what he's drawn from 10 miles high and to totally confuse the rest of the population. Then he complains of no Lobster! Why no Lobster,
I tell you why no Lobster.............the little buggers are fed up and knackered with walking the distance between the bloody pots and are in themselves confused by the il-logical approuch of the fisherman to his daily tasks!
They should corral the lot of them up, put a fence around them with neon flashing lights and big arrows and razor wire around the top, so they can't use the excuse that the little beggers jumped the fence, stating.........." Stoned Fisherman's Lobster Park.......Keep out"
That way, we know where the parks are and the fisherman can remember where he left his pot!
I think that should do it?

Baz

 

[toobaz]

You took the words right out of my mouth!

Sends me to sleep at night with the shivers!

 

[zefender]

Hmmm...my favourite subject. The thread can be found on..

http://www.ybw.com/cgi-bin/new/foru...ber=175697&page=&view=&sb=&o=&vc=1#Post175697

 

[ToMo]

Re: Darkside of the Moon!

Thaym big buggers dahn ere wot is fisha folk....and I aint abaht ter git on the dark side of em!....why?...cos I is a live coward with a little boat thats why!
TôMö

 

[oldgit]

Re:Lobster pots err zzzzzzzzzzzzzNM.

boats.

 

[coliholic]

Sorry about the delay in posting to this riveting thread, but just been out getting all the lobster pots in their right positions.

See we've got a plan. We have formed a new national collective known as LobstaPotsRUs and we know exactly, to the millimetre, where all the pots are and have a detailed map of where every pot's going to be placed anywhere round the coast at any given time.

The basic business plan that we at LobstaPotsRUs have is that since the fishing industry is basically kaput anyway and all the fishing quotas have been flogged off to the greasy dago oops sorry our friends in Spain, (along with Gibraltar) and there's not really any money to be made from fishing anyway. So we're just going to pop out the pots with the sole intention of flogging the maps to yotties and stinkies.

These maps are of course available to purchase for the ridiculously low price of only £9.99 per area per month. Just pop the cartridge in to your Chart Plotter and all pots are clearly marked on your screen. Hard copy versions for poor people are also available.

Now you may wonder how we can make any money out of this. Well the actual location of the pots is changed daily and of course your subscription only covers a limited area. Normally ten square mile. Additonal area maps can of course be purchased on a discount for quantity basis and our intial business plan indicates that they typical motor boat on the South Coast would need to purchase only 50 area maps for the very affordable price of only £350 per month on an annual subscription basis. Rates for yotties may need to be increased on the basis that they don't go so far and no self respecting person likes them anyway and also it's quite good fun watching them try to extricate themselves from our successful attempts to ensnare them.

Inital trials are currently underway and early feedback indicates that the yotties are being reasonably succesful in evading some of our pots without the use of maps. However the second phase of our plan is to make the pots less noticeable and harder to see. Technological developments in pot marker design continues and the latest stealth technology will soon be applied to ensure that the only people able to evade out pots, will be our regular subscribers.

We trust you will assist us in our endeavours to support the ailing fishing industry and participate in the development of this new exciting means of screwing money out of rich boaters.

We are still looking for franchisees to take over some key areas around the coast. Please post your interest.

See, and you all thought I was the nutty one.

 

[JohnR]

You obviously do not appreciate the finer point of little black flags on top of garden canes when doing a night run into Brighton. Why is it that in other countries fishermen actualy but reflective tape on their flags?

 

[ccscott49]

Oh dear! here we go again!

 

[ccscott49]

Most other countries use old plastic containers of any sort that will float!!!

 

[ArthurWood]

You're lucky they have flags. In Florida waters crab trap markers are just small floaty things, often black or dark blue and seem to be everywhere, even many miles, km, leagues, nm off shore from Oct to May.

 

[toobaz]

Stone Crab

At least their good eating!
I have yet to understand the American's and I work for them. We were there one year, about 5 miles off marathon when this all signing, all dancing machine came alonside us with plenty tooty hanging from her, electronics falling out of the bilges and a fat twat with a cigar poking outtof his mouth.
Shouting out," Which way is Key West, Bud!"
Past the next island and turn right...............if you miss it, the next stop is Havana! I shouted back to him, should have told him to switch his electronic on as well.
Baz

 

[ArthurWood]

Re: Directions

That's not unusual! I was at one of the boat dealers here one day and he got a call on his VHF from a guy who had just taken deliv of a new 50+ footer and was about 15 miles out. He wanted to know how to anchor! We had a similar exp to yours a few weeks back when a big thing came to the marina we were in just off the ICW and asked "is this Cabbage Key?" I saide"Nope it's the other side of the ICW about a mile S." I think most of the huge boats in our marina never leave because their owners are scared to death of getting through the passes to the Gulf and if the sea is more than 3ft they won't go out anyway. Land of comfort!