NS whitetail Posted December 18, 2010 Report Share Posted December 18, 2010 Our 6 month lobster season opened back on Nov. 29, last Monday, the third week into the season, a strong wind storm went through here bringing with it very high seas and making the ocean very rough. Most guys who had their traps in 120 feet or less of water got pretty beat up. Yesterday on our way in, we hauled up some traps of my Uncles that he could not get up ( we have a better more powerful hauling hoist ). The first pic is of two ten trap trawls that got all snarled together, all I could do was keep cutting them off and put them on deck. these used to be good lobster traps it's hard to believe how much power the ocean has when it gets rough this was once a rectangle trap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SourthenILdeerhunter Posted December 18, 2010 Report Share Posted December 18, 2010 wow hard to believe the ocean did that!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravin R10 man Posted December 18, 2010 Report Share Posted December 18, 2010 wow hard to believe the ocean did that!!!!! Ya and 120 feet down to boot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alisha Posted December 19, 2010 Report Share Posted December 19, 2010 It makes me absolutely sick to see this. We know people (as I'm sure Lewis does too) that have lost 200-300+ lobster traps in the same wind storm that the traps in the above pictures were lost to. After a couple hard seasons in a row, a lot of people are struggling to make it as it is, and then for this to happen? :no: :surrender: At $100.00 a trap, that's $2,000 laying on deck, not including the price of all the rope that is lost, along with money lost from these traps not being fish-able to catch the lobsters they might have caught. For those that have lost 300 traps and all the rope that goes along with them.... that's well over $30,000 worth of loss...... meaning that bascially their season is over. :bummed: It's a terrible, terrible thing. :no: How some people are going to recover from this...... I really don't know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msman825 Posted December 19, 2010 Report Share Posted December 19, 2010 sorry too hear this , but i know the feeling. I lobster fish off shore here in Maine too. glad you at least got them back, here most of the time the rope pulls the highflyer down at gets tangled so that we lose the whole trawl. then we have to spend 3-5 hours dragging for it. hope yaw are doing good also Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckee Posted December 19, 2010 Report Share Posted December 19, 2010 Looks like a pretty expensive loss. Man, that's sad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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