drewstwos
Well-Known Member
PHOTO EVIDENCE from the depths Now there\'s a good title.
Well, here it is. Photographic evidence that eventually your wishes can be granted.Well almost.
All I wanted to do was catch a lobster or two for the pot. OK you can go and buy one at Paddys Market, but its just not the same. Is it? Ask the Major about his £25000 fish,
I had applied for the Hobby Licence and had it in my hot little hand and got hold of a couple of pots.
The first couple of times there was nothing but a bit of seaweed in them.
Then there was the saga related in my last post, with the comments about how long the pot should soak, (to use the language from the TV Deadliest Catch). But after being weather bound in harbour for several days after the last rebaiting, the wind died away, the sea calmed down, and the sun shone from a cloudless sky, so off we went in search of the marker buoys.
This time they were easy to spot as the sea was flat. The first pot had a lot of weed in it, but there hidden at first was this.
Two of the smallest but perfectly formed lobsters I have ever seen.
They were gently lowered back into the water and wished a fond farewell. Please grow up quickly I muttered.
Then on to pot number 2. Yo ho and up she rises. Bit of a strain hauling 80 odd feet of line with a quite heavy pot at the end of it.
But it surfaced and I hauled it over the gunwale. Ah ha!!!! Something in there. Yes 2 of them. Opened the door and out walked this, with pincers out and obviously feeling ready to take on the world.
But when measured he was just a centimetre short of being potable.
Now the other was a female and with child, well children by the dozen, so they both had to go back. Maybe that was why he was so aggrssive, defending his lady love. Hmm!!! just me being an unrepentant romantic, but he'd have gone into the pot just the same. Now that reminds me of the Walrus the Carpenter and the oysters, /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
So it just goes to show that persistence pays in the end. Maybe next time they will be bigger and will taste just fine.
Cheers. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
Drew.
Well, here it is. Photographic evidence that eventually your wishes can be granted.Well almost.
All I wanted to do was catch a lobster or two for the pot. OK you can go and buy one at Paddys Market, but its just not the same. Is it? Ask the Major about his £25000 fish,
I had applied for the Hobby Licence and had it in my hot little hand and got hold of a couple of pots.
The first couple of times there was nothing but a bit of seaweed in them.
Then there was the saga related in my last post, with the comments about how long the pot should soak, (to use the language from the TV Deadliest Catch). But after being weather bound in harbour for several days after the last rebaiting, the wind died away, the sea calmed down, and the sun shone from a cloudless sky, so off we went in search of the marker buoys.
This time they were easy to spot as the sea was flat. The first pot had a lot of weed in it, but there hidden at first was this.
Two of the smallest but perfectly formed lobsters I have ever seen.
They were gently lowered back into the water and wished a fond farewell. Please grow up quickly I muttered.
Then on to pot number 2. Yo ho and up she rises. Bit of a strain hauling 80 odd feet of line with a quite heavy pot at the end of it.
But it surfaced and I hauled it over the gunwale. Ah ha!!!! Something in there. Yes 2 of them. Opened the door and out walked this, with pincers out and obviously feeling ready to take on the world.
But when measured he was just a centimetre short of being potable.
Now the other was a female and with child, well children by the dozen, so they both had to go back. Maybe that was why he was so aggrssive, defending his lady love. Hmm!!! just me being an unrepentant romantic, but he'd have gone into the pot just the same. Now that reminds me of the Walrus the Carpenter and the oysters, /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
So it just goes to show that persistence pays in the end. Maybe next time they will be bigger and will taste just fine.
Cheers. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
Drew.
