Lobster Reports.

[scubastew]

Pebble today - 1 dive. Me - 4 keepers (all over 4''). Friend - 5 flounders.

Okay, this seems a little fishy to me. Pebble beach? The Pebble beach? Where every saturday and sunday the beach is littered with divers? 4 keepers all over 4 inch carapace? On one Dive? and you had a whale speared too right? and found a pirate ship with gold coins in the hull right?

just kinding, but common, you have to agree it sounds too good to be true

I definitely must be doing something wrong!! I'm lucky if I come away from Pebble with all me gear never mind 4 large bugs like that!! kudos to you!

 

[PAdiver93]

Okay, this seems a little fishy to me. Pebble beach? The Pebble beach? Where every saturday and sunday the beach is littered with divers? 4 keepers all over 4 inch carapace? On one Dive? and you had a whale speared too right? and found a pirate ship with gold coins in the hull right?

just kinding, but common, you have to agree it sounds too good to be true

I definitely must be doing something wrong!! I'm lucky if I come away from Pebble with all me gear never mind 4 large bugs like that!! kudos to you!

Dude that was a funny line!!! No diving for me - battling a sinus infection for the past 3 weeks

 

[ClassAction]

Same here today...Boston Outer Harbor...lots of shorts and only two keepers. Better amount of bugs than last week though.

John C.

We were in the outer harbor on Sunday. Vis was horrible -- 1-4 feet. But we came up with 14 keepers (between two divers on two dives).

 

[Chebby]

Thanx guys, but I think she should learn to walk before going for certification, or she won't be able to haul gear to the dive site She's only eight months now.

North,

any reason you like that particular regulator?

 

[Chebby]

Scubastew,

You are right, pebble beach gets picked out fast, so I usually avoid it. But water is really getting warm now and I think that makes lobsters move closer to shore. This was a good dive (compared to most of the ones this year), but a bad one compared to late august/september last year, when I was getting 8-12 on every dive. With the luck I had on my previous dive, I deserve it Also I should mention both me and my buddy have big-*** tanks and we stay down for up to an hour after snorkeling to the reef. Can't do that with an AL-80

 

[Scuba65]

We were out on the boat Sat. and we found a great place for lobstering out in the harbor. all of good size.

 

[localdivah]

Scubastew,

You are right, pebble beach gets picked out fast, so I usually avoid it. But water is really getting warm now and I think that makes lobsters move closer to shore. This was a good dive (compared to most of the ones this year), but a bad one compared to late august/september last year, when I was getting 8-12 on every dive. With the luck I had on my previous dive, I deserve it Also I should mention both me and my buddy have big-*** tanks and we stay down for up to an hour after snorkeling to the reef. Can't do that with an AL-80

I've also had good luck at Pebble in the past by going out to the further reef. Not the best shore dive (maybe #4 on my list in CA), but very nice to have all that parking and an easy entry on rough days.

 

[yak]

Got two dives in yesterday off Plymouth. First dive, our usual honey hole, yielded 5 keepers between two divers. Water was 59 at 22 feet, viz 10-15.

second dive was at "land of the giants". The giants haven't showed up here yet, but we got 3 more keepers. We named this spot after a particular dive in late August when we were finding multiple oversized lobbies among boulders at 8-10 feet depth about 10 yards offshore - wierd place - maybe it's the proximity to the nuke. I didn't see any eggers or v-notches, my buddy Jim saw 1 or 2.

I saw some sea bass, a few skates, a doormat flounder that bolted at the glint of my knife, lots of big starfish - a foot or more across.

The seas were really flat and the current was mellow, so we were comfortable venturing further away from the boat than normal. Near the end of the first dive, we were motoring in a beeline to cover some serious ground back to the boat. We both agreed we saw more keepers this way than our usual slow, scour the bottom approach, only we were reluctant to stop as we were on limited air and didn't want to do a surface swim back to the boat. I did stop to grab one and in my haste to keep moving, left a Home Depot tickle stick on the rocks. I used a piece of aluminum boat trim on the second dive - it worked just as well.

Beers at the Cabby Shack were cold & frosty. Scenery was good - viz was unlimited.

I may try Brant Rock on Friday, high tide's at 12:30. Anyone wants to join let me know. Includes post-dive homebrews by the pool at my house/brewery.

 

[Boston Diver Services]

We got eleven keepers last Thurs. in the Outer Harbor. P.

 

[MSilvia]

I just kept one of the many I saw out on the City of Salisbury wreck site, and I remember thinking at the time that she was behaving as though she had a tail full of eggs. It turns out she did... after cooking her, I saw the tail meat was packed with roe.