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First Bug of the 2015-16 Alta California Season

Bwana_John - 10-6-2015 at 06:50 PM

Lobster season opened at 12 midnight, we hit the water at 12:00:01am, and found this guy at 12:05am

10 minutes to get it out of its hole, 5 minutes rolling around on the bottom to subdue(lots of surge), and another 10 minutes trying to get my gear unsnarled enough to bag him before I realized.. he aint gonna fit in the goody bag!

It was my nephews first night scuba dives and first lobster hunting dives, he did great and came back with his own dinner.







[Edited on 10-9-2015 by Bwana_John]

woody with a view - 10-6-2015 at 07:07 PM

image removed?

David K - 10-6-2015 at 07:08 PM

the link says you moved the image, when I go to your album, I see the giant bug... but the single photo link won't work here...??

Here is your album with 4 photos...
http://s1379.photobucket.com/user/jlsjbs/library/?sort=3&...
that lobster is amazing!!!


Bwana_John - 10-6-2015 at 07:14 PM

somthing is changing the code I enter, ???

Thank You for the link David


[Edited on 10-7-2015 by Bwana_John]

David K - 10-6-2015 at 07:17 PM

Maybe alert Doug to see if his software is seeing a word that is nasty in Spanish in the image code. and changing it when posting here??? There should be no *** in the IMG code, it isn't there on Photobucket.

Until then people can go to you album and click on the photo to enlarge it.

woody with a view - 10-6-2015 at 07:32 PM

get a rolling pin and roll the meat out of those legs! a can of corn works as well!

monoloco - 10-6-2015 at 07:38 PM

Damn nice bug there!

MMc - 10-6-2015 at 07:45 PM

Wow!! I think you can call it, everything else you get this year will seem undersized. Nice job!!!

HOLY _-_-_-_

captkw - 10-6-2015 at 07:52 PM

Nice job,,where'd ya bag it?

Cliffy - 10-6-2015 at 07:56 PM

How old do you think it is? Its not a year or two?
Looks like dinner for 4

BigBearRider - 10-6-2015 at 08:49 PM

Wow.

bajagrouper - 10-6-2015 at 09:49 PM

This link is for Mexican fishing regulations, I noticed paragraph 3........

http://www.sportfishinginmexico.com/?page_id=4181

Whale-ista - 10-6-2015 at 09:58 PM

Whoa! That's amazing.

MMc - 10-6-2015 at 10:27 PM

I think this is a north of the boarded bug. Scuba and gringo's and lobsters don't mix well south of the border.

Bwana_John - 10-6-2015 at 10:34 PM

Alta California ;)

SFandH - 10-7-2015 at 06:58 AM

Big bug for sure but if you look closely it is much closer to the camera than Bwana_John, he's holding it out.