Coastal Foraging at night - HUGE LOBSTER, Crabs and amazing UV Footage - with special C&R. - The Fish Locker
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Date: 2022-05-03
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WolfricLupus
Good video dude. I'm glad you V-notched him and let him go, he was a real beast! All the time you were talking about what to do with him, I kept shouting -lobster hatchery- at my screen! Shame they couldn't take him, he would be fantastic breeding stock, and what a fantastic retirement for him it would have been, no stress, all the food you need, and plenty of. erm. -reproductive rights-! But in the end with everything that's going on, you did the right thing. Big fan of your work, Ps. (off topic) I watched one of your workshop videos where you unboxed a reel and loaded the line. I'm so glad I just watched that because I always puzzled over the best way to attach new line to a blank spool. The only change I made was that I then put a piece of scotch tape over the knot to shield the overlying line from catching it.
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Good video dude. I'm glad you V-notched him and let him go, he was a real beast! All the time you were talking about what to do with him, I kept shouting -lobster hatchery- at my screen! Shame they couldn't take him, he would be fantastic breeding stock, and what a fantastic retirement for him it would have been, no stress, all the food you need, and plenty of. erm. -reproductive rights-! But in the end with everything that's going on, you did the right thing. Big fan of your work, Ps. (off topic) I watched one of your workshop videos where you unboxed a reel and loaded the line. I'm so glad I just watched that because I always puzzled over the best way to attach new line to a blank spool. The only change I made was that I then put a piece of scotch tape over the knot to shield the overlying line from catching it.
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Pup314
At Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Woods Hole, Massachusetts had a male lobster that weight 15 lbs. when caught estimated to be 65 years old and had been kept there for 25 years back in the late 1970's and weighed at that time close to 22 lbs. Its claw was about the size of your big boy lobster. If still alive in captivity there it will be about 110 years old today. From tip of the claws to the middle tail piece was over 2 feet long and when stretched out left and right the claws tip to tip were almost 3 feet across. I was 11 years old at the time I saw it and it was bigger than my head.
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At Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Woods Hole, Massachusetts had a male lobster that weight 15 lbs. when caught estimated to be 65 years old and had been kept there for 25 years back in the late 1970's and weighed at that time close to 22 lbs. Its claw was about the size of your big boy lobster. If still alive in captivity there it will be about 110 years old today. From tip of the claws to the middle tail piece was over 2 feet long and when stretched out left and right the claws tip to tip were almost 3 feet across. I was 11 years old at the time I saw it and it was bigger than my head.
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Lobsters are one of the very rare creatures that are technically immortal. They don't die from old age, they just get bigger. When their cells reproduce themselves, they don't deteriorate like other animals, they make perfect copies. They do die, but only through environmental factors or disease. I stopped eating Lobsters when I learned that a normal three or four pounder could be anything between 80 and 100 years old.
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Lobsters are one of the very rare creatures that are technically immortal. They don't die from old age, they just get bigger. When their cells reproduce themselves, they don't deteriorate like other animals, they make perfect copies. They do die, but only through environmental factors or disease. I stopped eating Lobsters when I learned that a normal three or four pounder could be anything between 80 and 100 years old.
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Chris
Fantastic! What a great find and so glad you let him go, as much as I love eating lobster a beast like him certainly deserves the respect you gave him. Big kudos to you. Your videos have inspired me to start my own foraging series, only covered brown shrimp & samphire so far but I feel a night mission coming on now. Thanks so much for your great films, so good to watch.
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Fantastic! What a great find and so glad you let him go, as much as I love eating lobster a beast like him certainly deserves the respect you gave him. Big kudos to you. Your videos have inspired me to start my own foraging series, only covered brown shrimp & samphire so far but I feel a night mission coming on now. Thanks so much for your great films, so good to watch.
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Hawkeye
Waste in my opinion, dont get me wrong i love what u do, but v notching is ment for female egg baring lobsters not males, v notching him will not help the stock as there are plenty of males to fertilise the few good breading females, nor does it really protect him as anyone who wanted can take him as the by law protects breading females. Still awsome vid as always
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Waste in my opinion, dont get me wrong i love what u do, but v notching is ment for female egg baring lobsters not males, v notching him will not help the stock as there are plenty of males to fertilise the few good breading females, nor does it really protect him as anyone who wanted can take him as the by law protects breading females. Still awsome vid as always
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blair
Been going through your videos for a while. Love them and thanks. Great chillout and learning in the evenings. This one is up there as one of the best. Underlines your knowledge, respect and passion for all marine life. Add in family and roasted lobster, awesome. Much respect fae me in Scotland and thanks again for yer efforts in making these videos.
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Been going through your videos for a while. Love them and thanks. Great chillout and learning in the evenings. This one is up there as one of the best. Underlines your knowledge, respect and passion for all marine life. Add in family and roasted lobster, awesome. Much respect fae me in Scotland and thanks again for yer efforts in making these videos.
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CYNN
That was wonderful. I am so out of order watching your videos with my son still ill in hospital, but I saw the follow up a while ago at the hatchery. Cant help feeling your lovely son may be seeing this fantastic brute in decades to come with the protection you gave it and hopefully the education given to all. Thanks.
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That was wonderful. I am so out of order watching your videos with my son still ill in hospital, but I saw the follow up a while ago at the hatchery. Cant help feeling your lovely son may be seeing this fantastic brute in decades to come with the protection you gave it and hopefully the education given to all. Thanks.
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Tony
Just watched this again, as Pinchy was the conversation at breakfast time. Where does James get his naming inspiration - He's a character, he makes me smile. What a shame the Lobster Hatchery couldn't take him. But a fitting release for him. Thanks for the education - Again sir
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Just watched this again, as Pinchy was the conversation at breakfast time. Where does James get his naming inspiration - He's a character, he makes me smile. What a shame the Lobster Hatchery couldn't take him. But a fitting release for him. Thanks for the education - Again sir
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barry
I'm pretty sure that lobster would be a world record for a catch without a pot, you will always catch some to eat from your pots, but for sustainability and conservation John i admire your true compassion and admiration for the good of man i would like this a 1000's times
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I'm pretty sure that lobster would be a world record for a catch without a pot, you will always catch some to eat from your pots, but for sustainability and conservation John i admire your true compassion and admiration for the good of man i would like this a 1000's times
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Josiah
Hey where did you buy the UV headlamp? I live on grand manan island new Brunswick Canada and I spend alot of time foraging the low tide mark (27-30ft tides here) and would love to see what beaches look like under UV light when I am picking wrinkles or dulse.
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Hey where did you buy the UV headlamp? I live on grand manan island new Brunswick Canada and I spend alot of time foraging the low tide mark (27-30ft tides here) and would love to see what beaches look like under UV light when I am picking wrinkles or dulse.
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