10,365 Pounds of Lobster!!! (Last Day Blog)

August 26:

Today was Monday so we were back from our day off hauling on Sunday. We hauled singles the whole day and we also hauled some singles that only had 3-4 nights on them. Those were the ones in the Mackerel Ledge, we usually haul in that area when we do our double traps, but we did them today so we didn't have to do them tomorrow. We did pretty bad all day and only ended up with 292 pounds, but we had no lobsters in a lot of traps today. 

August 27:

Today we were hauling outside where we have our double traps. I got up at 4:45 AM and we went out to haul. We did quite bad today, it was the worst we have seen it out there and we hauled like 180 traps and only got 184 pounds which is pretty horrible for what we have been doing. Thats about 1 pound per trap and we have always done like 2 or over at least. 

August 29:

We heard the day before that it was suppose to rain quite hard in the morning, so Uncle Art woke me up at 6:20 AM which is about 90 minutes later than when he usually wakes me up. Apparently it was raining very hard but it stopped so we went out around 6:30 AM. It rained out on the boat for a bit, not crazy hard but it was raining. It stopped raining after a couple hours or so then the rain clouds cleared and became pretty nice out. Even though we started late today we were still done by like 11:20 AM. We did 243 pounds which id say is pretty good for like 4-5 hours on the boat. 

August 31:

Today after we were finished hauling on the boat, I went to the Library at night to work on some music because nobody was using it and it has fast internet. 


September 1:

Today I had a day off, and I slept in until 9 AM. Later on, we went down to Pats to help load about 500 bales into her barn. We used this tread mill thing to put the hay on and transport it up to the attic of the barn and packed 500 bales into the barn. It didn't take too long, as a bonus we got pizza near the end also. 

September 3:

We hauled in the harbor today, all singles, probably around 170 singles. We did get like 405 pounds though so that's almost 2.5 pounds per trap. We finished around noon. Around 5 PM today, we went down to the last taco Tuesday that they were having. I got 4 tacos and they were delicious. 




September 4:

Today was my last day on the boat! It turned out to be a short day, we were done by 11:30 AM. We got 238 pounds which wasn't bad, we did about 2 pounds per trap. I said bye to Terry since I wouldn't see him until next year. He is the main guy that helps at the wharf, helps loading bait and the lobsterman with the lobster at the end of the day. 

Here are some final pictures I got:

 


In the end, for the 6 weeks I've been here we have caught 10,365 pounds of lobster! Thats more than 5 tons and more than last year. Last year we got about 8,700 pounds. Hopefully I will be able to do 6 weeks again next year, maybe even longer if I can fly over to Glasgow later on in September maybe around the 15th or something. I know I didn't post as many blogs as previous years, but that concludes this year of the Lobsterman blog. See yall next year, adios!

- 9/4/2019 -