Lobster Pot Update

[Alan Taylor]

Salar:

Alan,

You got mail....

Spot on, cheers.

 

Alan

[heidi1977]

Hi do you need to put any food in the lobster pot to tempt them in? I live near glasgow and go camping alot near salt lochs I take it they are great places to put a lobster pot? where can I get a couple from cheap? and how far out do you need to put them? would be great for a camping grub!!

[Socksy Squirrel]

Hi there,

 

The favourite bait down here is a small pouting or wrasse. A tin of cat food emptied into the foot of an old pair of tights will do at a pinch.

[Grant]

What was that mention about folding pots? Sound interesting!

[Salar]

heidi1977:

Hi do you need to put any food in the lobster pot to tempt them in? I live near glasgow and go camping alot near salt lochs I take it they are great places to put a lobster pot? where can I get a couple from cheap? and how far out do you need to put them? would be great for a camping grub!!

I'm told there are lobsters close in that the commercial potters miss. You need to bait a pot with fish, if you stuff a mesh bag with fish scraps the first lobster in does not eat it all so more come in as well. You may be able to buy an old one from a fisherman - there is a web site that advertises second hand gear , I'll see if I can find it.

[Newt]

Grant - from the link I posted in an earlier post on this thread,

 

[Socksy Squirrel]

I have snagged and occasionally landed lobsters and crabs from the piers in Jersey. Sometimes they would get entangled in the trace and other times they would just not let go of a particularly juicy piece of squid.

We have a big tidal range down here, 25 - 40 ft approximately and people do collect lobsters and crabs from the shore, particularly on the big springs.

You could take a look at Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall's book for a bit of advice on how to catch by throwing pots from the shore, not literally you just drop them in the water!

[Grant]

Caught two lobsters from St Catherine's last year, which is about all I caught off there apart from Dogfish!

 

Oh, and a spider crab

[Blackvelvet]

bait your pots up with mackerel don't gut them, that's a canny bait for the lobsters, and as they are in at the moment your laughing all the way to the lobster salads. you'll find load of recipes on line

[Salar]

Socksy Squirrel:

You could take a look at Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall's book for a bit of advice on how to catch by throwing pots from the shore, not literally you just drop them in the water!

He dons a wet suit and paddles out in an old tractor tyre to drop his pots. He says its a bit of a struggle to lift them - he's not kidding! Somewhere in my boat I have a folding prawn trap I bought in Canada. If that could be scaled up it could be a very useful lobster pot for shore use - very light and lobbable. I'll see if I can reverse engineer it and source the bits over here.