10lb Lobster?

AbsoluteLy throw it back:
Meat would be tough
Doesn’t fit the slot size in maine
Breeding stock

Pretty crazy that his great grandfather could have caught the same lobster.

I had a 5 lb lobster at a pound in Maine - it was almost too much to eat but it wasn't tough.

Man, I would love to try.

I understand there are spiny tail lobsters that are on the rigs that divers harvest.

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Spiney lobsters are on the Gulf coast

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seen & fished for them in FL. But unaware of them along the LA Gulf Coast. Any tips?

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But unaware of them along the LA Gulf Coast. Any tips?

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About 30 years ago I had a good friend that had a Topaz sport fisherman and he asked me to with him as a deck hand on a lobster diving trip off the mouth of the river. Neither of us were divers but he was bringing fours guys who were customers of his that were experienced divers.

I remember we went SE out of South Pass and went a good ways out and stopped at a couple of rigs that they went into the water and came back up empty-handed, no lobsters. We went to one rig and the lobster were there. I don't remember excactly how many they got, but it was a good many, 30 or 40.

The four guys dove in two man teams and one the guys in each team carried a mop, like a regular kitchen mop. And the other guy would carry a net, like a landing net. I said WTF, what are the mops for? They said that octopuses were a predator of lobsters and they used the mops to stick into some crevices that existed on the legs of the rigs. And once they stuck those mops into the crevices, any lobsters that were there would swim out and they would be netted.

Another thing I remember was that each guy wore gloves that went up to their elbows. They were like welders gloves.

It was a long time ago, but that is what I remember

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10lb Lobster

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Guinness book record is over 44 lbs and about four feet long but something like that is well north of 50 years old. How old and how big they can get is still unknown but they can hit 100 years.

Cool fact. In colonial times they were so plentiful in the Northeast that lobsters were used as prison food. Interesting enough, prisoners complained about being fed them daily. Times definitely have changed.

Pretty cool that he let it go.