Just Another Day At Sea
Last summer, 10 miles off the coast, in the middle of Massachusetts Bay is where you could have found me. Just an average day of lobstering the F/V Shooting star. But today, today would not end up being average at all. As I recall, we were fishing in about 370 feet of water over rocky bottom. It was three traps into our seventeenth trawl. The trap came up, and something happened that had never happened to us before. A blue lobster was crawling around in the back end of the trap amongst the other lobsters. We carefully picked it up and banded it. After, we placed it in a separate tank so that nothing would happen to it during the steam in. We brought it back to the dock, but never thought about selling it! I mean, how could we... isn't it beautiful.
Although not as rare, we also caught this discolored lobster the same year. Pretty cool!
Which discoloration do you think is more interesting?
As always, please upvote and comment what you think!
And for more about my fishing background.. click below
https://steemit.com/steemit/@modernsuperior/how-fishing-made-me-who-i-am-today-from-entitled-to-thankful