Today, I got to sleep in a little bit. I usually wake up at 4:30 AM, but today, I got to sleep in until 5:20 AM! It didn't seem to really make a big difference that I could notice. I got to sleep in because Uncle Art said we couldn't get bait until 6 AM. I did not make a Sandwich today, because Uncle Art said we would be done by 12 or 12:30. I just packed pretzels, a Banana, and some tiny Oranges.
We drove down to the Wharf. It was more bright out because we got up about an hour later. Uncle Art went to get the boat and he put some Rock Fish and 2 trays of Herring on the boat. He also had a lot of his new traps that he was going to set put on the boat. In the end, we had about 25-30 traps on the back of the boat. They were all going to be set as Double traps, so he would take 2, connect them a certain way, then we would drop them. We set all of those traps first, then we started to haul.
First, we hauled singles, with bait bags filled with mostly Herring, and 2-3 Rock fish to make the bait stay better. It was pretty sunny out today, so I had to put on a lot of sunscreen. We were going to haul the 15 Double traps last. We were running out of bait before we got to the Double traps. Once we got to the Doubles, we made it through 11 out of the 15, then we were out of bait.
A Lobster boat came by to talk to Uncle Art, and luckily he was nice, and gave us some bait, enough for us to make it through the other 4 Double traps, so 8 traps total. We got done finally, then it was 12:30, and we went in to unload the lobster. We ended up with, I think around 400 LBs I don't know exactly. We drove home, and I hung out. For dinner, Aunt Pennie had put some baked beans with hot-dogs in the oven for me and Uncle Art to eat at 6 PM. We had that along with some bread and butter. It was really yummy!
-8/3/2016
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