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    Wind Turbines!

    in Sea Fishing

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    I still wonder if we'll be allowed near wind turbines. If they don't get us with some 'conservation' restriction, I bet they'll find something terrorist-related to keep us away!

     

    I love the idea of wind farms......nice, clean energy.......but I have the same fears as elton.....will these sructures get declared vital to national intrest and have an exclusion zone around them???

    Sea fishing in Norway

    in Sea Fishing

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    Well we just got back from what has be one of the best fishing trips I've ever made. We went for a week to Rost in the the Lofoten Islands 65 miles inside the Arctic Circle, stunning scenery, great weather and fantastic fishing. Bit of a trek to get there but boy was it worth it. Cod to 50lbs, Coalies to about 20llbs and something called a Brosme or Tusk. Oh and a 12lb cod on a fly! but unfortunately no Halibut! All mine were caught on a Shimano Exage travel spinning rod or Exage 20lb boat rod. A 15lb Coalie goes like a torpedo on spinning tackle! My arm is still feeling the strain

     

    We couldnt bring any fish back so it was catch and release or if it wasnt possible it went on the table that night! I'll post more info later if anyone is interested

     

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    Dan

     

    What a great trip you must of had!! great pics!!

    LOBSTER

    in Sea Fishing

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    Does anyone on this site fish for prawns or lobsters ? Or engages in shellfishing in general???

     

    thanks

    rob

     

     

    Just finished checking my traps or some of them I should say. We have a ten pot limit and allowed a limit of 15 lobsters. Fishing was so good today I had to stop checking my traps at #5 as I had my limit. A very nice sunday. :):):)

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    LOBSTER

    in Sea Fishing

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    No

     

    They're only there so folk without sounders know where the hard ground is or to provide a tying off point instead of anchoring

     

     

    Yeah the commercial guys love seeing someone tied up to one of there strings........wouldn't recommend it

    LOBSTER

    in Sea Fishing

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    Here is good one for you we were fishing some rough ground 25 miles from whitby the depth of the water is around 44 fathoms which in real money is 264ft the lads were bait fish with squid the drift which we were doing was about 200 yds long over some very rough ground half way through one of the drifts one of the lads got snagged on the botton and lost his trace which was baited with a full calamari squid the very next drift we set up again to drift over the same ridges now you have to remember the depth we were fishing in a guy who was fishing next to the lad who had snapped off the drift before caught his trace which he had lost and to my amaizment when he pulled it to the surface there was a 3lb lobster tangled on the trace which had been lost it took me 5 miniutes to calm the pair down they were litterally fisty cuffs over this lobster as to who was going to claim it.

     

    paul.

     

    nice story......nothing like a unexspected lobster dinner to brighten one's day!!! :)

    LOBSTER

    in Sea Fishing

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    Same lobster just an odd colour, not quite an albino more to do with pigments in the shell I would guess that would make it turn more yellow/ochre than normal

     

    yellow lobsters are quite rare. A local aquarium would have been happy to take the animal. I didn't realize it at the time and ended up cooking the lobster.......oops!!!!

     

    Here's what our state lobster biologist had to say.......

     

    Hi Rob,

     

    Yes the lobster in the picture was a yellow lobster. It is rare, probably one in ten million.

     

    Other than just being an interesting color variation, the different color does not appear to have any other significance.

     

    Thanks,

     

    Bob Glenn

    Senior Marine Fisheries Biologist

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    in The Great Glossary

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    Angling Terms Beginning With The Letter 'S'

     

    Added so far:

    Short Stroker

    Stret Pegging

    Spade End

    Stand Up Rod:

    Starlight

    Spider Hitch

    Spey Cast

    Shock Leader

    Snottie

    Swinger

     

    Above now added to: http://www.AskAnglers.co.uk

     

    swimbait - A swimbait is usualy the soft plastic lures that are highly detailed. You usualy will have to rig these baits with the hook of your choice. Some wil have tails that flair and give the bait more movement, hence the name swimbait, it looks like its swimming.

    LOBSTER

    in Sea Fishing

    Posted

    I could be wrong but looking at the colouration on those lobsters I'd hazard a guess that they're Canadian lobsters not English ones

     

    If we were fishing for them they'd have been banded up to prevent them from injuring each other

     

    Fairly Close on your color/geographical location guess brian, they are new england lobsters...I caught this lobby a coupla years ago....lets see what you make of this then!! :D:D:D

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    LOBSTER

    in Sea Fishing

    Posted

    I could be wrong but looking at the colouration on those lobsters I'd hazard a guess that they're Canadian lobsters not English ones

     

    If we were fishing for them they'd have been banded up to prevent them from injuring each other

     

    Really no need to band them as there is three inches of ice under that rockweed. the cold temps make the bugs sleepy. They also have room to move in the cooler. They tend to get a lot more aggresive when crammed tightly together. :)

    LOBSTER

    in Sea Fishing

    Posted

    There'll be one or twi that do a bit of part time potting but not that many I'd have thought

     

    I used to fish commercially for shellfish some 30 years ago if thats any help

     

    I just thougt they might be one or two other folk that liked to shellfish for the table. Thanks for the reply brian

     

    :):):):):):)

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