Just Wasn't My Day

[LobstaMan]

Grabbing one diver w/ one lobster barely short at one dive site in Marblehead while others are raping the seas of shorts and scrapping eggs off females on their boats, is like grabbing Grandma Jones for speeding 5 mph over the limit when there are cars on the same road blowing by at 85mph. Seems like a bit of wasted effort to me, lame and a little cheesy. What, does he think that's a great grab for the EPOs? If you came up with a bag of shorts or eggers, screw you, but one? Come on...that's a 'put it back in the ocean and if I catch you again things will work out differently' incident. Some officers just don't have too much common sense.

But once again, you learned your lesson didn't you? Everyone else should learn from your encounter, too before something worse happens to them...learn from the mistakes of others'.

LobstaMan

 

[ScubaSarus]

I'de side against you if you had more than one short like the guy in Stonington CT a few years ago that grabbed every lobster in sight and hid them behinde the seat of his truck when one of our Subaboards biggest members questioned him. But this was not the case; and relatively speaking, I feel you were shorted and learned a hard lesson. I have to say I sympathize with you as the evidence shows to me you were not wilfully poaching on any terms. But as one of my buddies is a dear hunter and you have to know a legal dear from far away becasue once you shoot it, its yours and there is no second checking.

Best of luck to you in the future and why don't you go out and get that $100 back by pulling in a nice lot of nice keepers. Just do it safely guy.

Chris

 

[scubastew]

Dude's the EPO need to pay for that fleet of Brand-New totally sweeeeet Ford F150s they scored!!

 

[ProfessorAronnax]

For future reference:

Method of Measurement
(a) All lobsters shall be measured immediately. Any person diving for lobster shall measure all lobsters in possession prior to surfacing.

 

[Fish_Whisperer]

Eat the evidence.

Lobster Sushi, anyone?

 

[Rick2]

Think I'll be at Stage Fort Park on Sunday with our club, it's our Scuba Chicks Day: the men carry tanks, gear and cook for the ladies while they dive. After lunch we all dive, I'll be sure to check those bugs on both eye sockets !!!!!!!!!

 

[christine1223]

Think I'll be at Stage Fort Park on Sunday with our club, it's our Scuba Chicks Day: the men carry tanks, gear and cook for the ladies while they dive. After lunch we all dive, I'll be sure to check those bugs on both eye sockets !!!!!!!!!

And as for lobstering at Stage Fort Park, I obtained 1 legal size lobster which I checked at least 10 times before I landed... See Rick, you should have joined the chicks, we caught legal sized lobsters!!! j/k :slick:

 

[localdivah]

Chandler Hovey is a nice dive site, and quite well protected if you don't count the often heavy boat traffic (site is in the middle of a ferry/shipping lane). I would add a caveat that there's a sign prohibiting diving on weekends between May-Sep (may need to get my months verified). So, really a weekday only site or save it for the off-season.