My 91 yo father was a lobster 🦞 fisherman back in the day up in Canada. I’ll have to show him this video. He talks about the days when they pulled the traps by hand. God bless you.
@@billybobcarrierobinback in the early 80s I lived next door to a guy who worked on a lobster boat out of Gloucester. He had been bugging me for a while to go out on the boat for a day. I finally went. Brought a six pack. I spent the entire time packing rotten stinking bait into those bags and doing anything the captain told me to do. Never touched a beer. It was a long hard day but I wouldn’t change that experience for anything. Was given a couple lobsters for helping. You people work hard for what you get out of it but I can see how working on the ocean can get in your blood. If I had been in need of a job and had been offered one I think I would’ve still been out there working on a lobster boat. Thanks for rekindling some memories from a long time ago. Stay safe, don
@@snydedon9636 I love that! I love taking people out for the experience too. I’ve had so many people go on the boat and tell me it was the best day they ever had. It really reminds me to never take it for granted how blessed I am to live this life.
Thank you for sharing this awesome video! The weather has been amazing for us in WA state this January. My daughter just reminded me last weekend it had already been our 10th trip out fishing this year! Thats a record for us. Hope you have a super productive year!
Love the 70s music 🎶 👌 love maine ❤ love the ocean 💙 treat her well and she with gift you with treasure, gotta be a great job the morning view across the cold foggy mornings to the sunny 🌞 days in the afternoon.love my new England ocean, keep the work going boys
Hey, nice video. Seeing Mount Desert Island - In 1996, a friend and I canoed (16' Old Town Appalachian) from the mainland (Lamoine) down the entire eastern side of the island and into Seal Harbor. We were in our 30's but must have looked in our 80's when we first got out of the canoe. That was mid October, and it was too rough to do the day before. A little nuts maybe.
Great video thanks for sharing. What kind or brand of gloves are you wearing I've never seen a glove that was able to be soaked in water and not freeze in those conditions.
Awesome. I just got my first lobster fishing education today. You did 300 traps, how often do you check the traps? Is it different winter and summer? Thanks Kc
@billybobcarrierobin As I would Love to go Lobstering. I Commercial Crabbed and Fished for years but times got tough and I went back to Building and Construction.
@@robertrusnak620 wow! That’s crazy! I caught a 15lbs lobster on a halibut trawl one time. I gave him to the oceanarium where he was a guest for a few months before he went back in the ocean.
Being a diver I would raid ghost traps ( no tag ) and would get some big lobsters. Sometimes these ghost traps would have 2- 5 pound lobsters dead from starvation from the traps not being checked on time. Damn poachers from Staten island !
@@mattiasdahlstrom2024 I love this comment! My mom and grandmother used to work at the sardine canning plant in Prospect Harbor. It closed about 15 years ago. It was the last one in the United States.
@ I retired from the army and came home to Scarborough Maine and I’m always fascinated watching working boaters go in and out of harbors up and down the coast. Life. Pure. We buy from Scott Doherty down here. Great family. Probably best I stay on the lakes with my boat. I get sick on merry go rounds
He’s working enough to overcome the cold! He’s got a lot of layers on. The funny thing is we’ve been out in 80° in August and he’s still wearing that oil coat. 🤣🤣🤣
Regulations on top of regulations plus rules and extra laws and procedures, all designed to push out the small operations. The large commercial operations have no trouble jumping through hoops, some of them even vote for it and encourage it. Small operations are pushed around and hassled. If they can price and fee and charge you out of the market, the big guys are happy when you finally give up.
@ How senseless… like requiring airline pilots to keep Eagle logs, or requiring midwest corn harvesters to keep deer logs. It is forced labor. Such unnecessary administrative distractions can quickly become safety hazards. Pure nonsense!
Wouldn’t it be nice? If only the people in that industry would make the policies for that industry instead of a bunch of bearcats that probably have never saw what a lobster boat looks like it’s just like the trucking industry we have people making policies in it that doesn’t even know what a class 8 vehicle looks like.
I don't mean to bash lobstermen, but we generally all know what it's like when various industries or agencies police themselves. Think about it. Ya, not good.
@ the Maine lobster industry is the most sustainable wild caught fishery in the world because we policed ourselves. All of the meaningful conservation laws in the industry came from the fishermen.
@@normsweeney3116 but it’s something cool that people who aren’t blessed to do my job like to see. It’s fun to share things with people that I’ve been used to after 43 years on the water…
A man that will get out in 5 degree temps on the water is a hero to me. I'll gladly pay for your catch. Great content!
@@harveyrousejr.2069 God bless you! Thank you!
How awesome that you threw him back. All the best for 2025 fishing mate.
Thanks for the well wishes!
😅😊😊😊
He has too
My 91 yo father was a lobster 🦞 fisherman back in the day up in Canada. I’ll have to show him this video. He talks about the days when they pulled the traps by hand. God bless you.
Any man who counts his blessings is a good guy to me.
Thanks for takin' us along.
My pleasure! Thanks for coming aboard!
@@billybobcarrierobinback in the early 80s I lived next door to a guy who worked on a lobster boat out of Gloucester. He had been bugging me for a while to go out on the boat for a day. I finally went. Brought a six pack. I spent the entire time packing rotten stinking bait into those bags and doing anything the captain told me to do. Never touched a beer. It was a long hard day but I wouldn’t change that experience for anything. Was given a couple lobsters for helping. You people work hard for what you get out of it but I can see how working on the ocean can get in your blood. If I had been in need of a job and had been offered one I think I would’ve still been out there working on a lobster boat. Thanks for rekindling some memories from a long time ago. Stay safe, don
@@snydedon9636 I love that! I love taking people out for the experience too. I’ve had so many people go on the boat and tell me it was the best day they ever had. It really reminds me to never take it for granted how blessed I am to live this life.
@@billybobcarrierobin thanks for the response. Hav a great day.
Manfred Mann was a bonus! Thank you for sharing your way to live!
@@Chris-CardVault good tunes are essential to having a successful day lobstering! 😁
Thank you for sharing this awesome video! The weather has been amazing for us in WA state this January. My daughter just reminded me last weekend it had already been our 10th trip out fishing this year! Thats a record for us. Hope you have a super productive year!
Great video. Thank you for taking us along.
@@cash14587 thanks for joining!
The channel name says it all I really enjoyed this video Best from the West in 25 Thanks for taking this old Alberta Coyote along CYU
@@worldsfastestube7302 thanks! My son Carter picked the name. 😁
Well done for returning that massive lobster may you lots of luck with your fishing
@@lesterpaxford8721 we love sending the big ones back!
Thanks for throwing back that old dude .
@@markmanley8673 we take pride in it!
Love the 70s music 🎶 👌 love maine ❤ love the ocean 💙 treat her well and she with gift you with treasure, gotta be a great job the morning view across the cold foggy mornings to the sunny 🌞 days in the afternoon.love my new England ocean, keep the work going boys
Manfred Mann " Blinded By The Light "
Good tunes..
It's Tuff job guys are doing
That was a kind thing for you to do to give him another chance of life greetings from Canada
Hey, nice video. Seeing Mount Desert Island - In 1996, a friend and I canoed (16' Old Town Appalachian) from the mainland (Lamoine) down the entire eastern side of the island and into Seal Harbor. We were in our 30's but must have looked in our 80's when we first got out of the canoe. That was mid October, and it was too rough to do the day before. A little nuts maybe.
@@pinetree5489 that’s crazy! I graduated in ‘96.
I’m a Mainer - don’t eat lobster but sailing for years fully understand the challenges to break even doing what you do
Great video thanks for sharing.
What kind or brand of gloves are you wearing I've never seen a glove that was able to be soaked in water and not freeze in those conditions.
@@TrentBoyett-TB1 ‘ol cotton gloves like the old timers wore. I’ve never been able to work with rubber gloves.
Awesome. I just got my first lobster fishing education today. You did 300 traps, how often do you check the traps? Is it different winter and summer? Thanks Kc
@@kc033056 yea, it’s very different in the winter. They set a couple weeks. In the summer you can haul them every 3-4 days.
Respect for taking care of the fisheries!!!
@@jasonsparks4601 thanks! We take pride in protecting the resource.
Thanks for the ride Capt. My brother and I were at Winter Harbor a couple weeks ago to sea trial a boat.
@@amcwagonnut cool! Which one?
@@billybobcarrierobin Brenda Lee
I enjoyed the Video. LOVE from Crabby Daddy here in Southern Maryland
I’d love to try crabbing down there some day.
@billybobcarrierobin As I would Love to go Lobstering. I Commercial Crabbed and Fished for years but times got tough and I went back to Building and Construction.
Great video. Do you have trouble with them freezing up in the boxes on days like this?
@@kevindwyer1770 we put them in a tank of moving water.
Awesome video Billy Bob. Been some wicked cold down below this year hasn't it bud? Hope all is well with you pal.
@@paidinfull8818 it sure has lately!
Thanks for sharing. Plus giving your workers the great atmosphere to work in….
@@bourbontrail565 thanks for the feedback!
😮😮😮😮 Wow amazing thank you for releasing him ❤️
@@alexitselentis7904 we take pride in releasing the big ones!
Great choice of music👍Fair winds⚓🇺🇸
Well done! Thanks…
Thank you too!
Brrrrrr. I live a skip or two up from your fishing “pond”. I Know how cold that is. Those crisp winter days with no wind is Jackpot. Nice work guys.
After expenses, what profit was made from that trip? When did they allow lobster off of Maine? Legacy only?
@@Daniel-gi3jo 550lbs@$7.50=$4125 minus Bait $800+ fuel $250=$3075. Sternman gets 20% of lobsters, so $825. Captain takes home $2250.
@@Daniel-gi3jo it was open until 1997, then It became apprenticeship.
Love it,like your attitude, pray you have full pots and all keepers, not sure if I could have thrown that big lobster back😢
@@johnwepasnick8991 thanks! I’ve learned that your outlook and your outcome seems to be better when you stay positive! 😊
Back in the day lobster diving was my thing off NJ. 6 per day but no size limit. My biggest I caught by hand was 18.2 pounds.
@@robertrusnak620 wow! That’s crazy! I caught a 15lbs lobster on a halibut trawl one time. I gave him to the oceanarium where he was a guest for a few months before he went back in the ocean.
Do you use windows for the breeding females?
Much respect.👏
Nice catch , can you imagine how big they can get , in the open ocean .
@@michaellapalice3068 I caught a 15lber on a halibut trawl once.
Being a diver I would raid ghost traps ( no tag ) and would get some big lobsters. Sometimes these ghost traps would have 2- 5 pound lobsters dead from starvation from the traps not being checked on time. Damn poachers from Staten island !
Great warnings, thanks!
Thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Beautiful Lobster
Was he carrying his birth certificate?
My old man had a lobster license. Fished Bay St. George in Western Newfoundland..
When I was kid my uncle put me on his sailboat and took past cadillac mountain..
As a Swede baiting lobster traps with herring is an affront ! Where can I complain?
@@mattiasdahlstrom2024 I love this comment! My mom and grandmother used to work at the sardine canning plant in Prospect Harbor. It closed about 15 years ago. It was the last one in the United States.
What was the date on his birth certificate?
Mainers, Standin on Business!
Thank you!
@ I retired from the army and came home to Scarborough Maine and I’m always fascinated watching working boaters go in and out of harbors up and down the coast. Life. Pure. We buy from Scott Doherty down here. Great family. Probably best I stay on the lakes with my boat. I get sick on merry go rounds
That sculpin makes great bait. Plus they eat baby lobsters..
Best time to go lobstering they love the cold water
What a sweet job. I wish my job was like that not having a person around you. Driving truck it's nothing but people around u.
@@roytaylor6519 it’s truly a blessing!
Best job in the world
Don't give up just keep fishing never know could find that pot of gold one day 🎉
I won’t! Thanks!
3:04 🦞
100 year old 10lb lobster
your my hero
@@Tonyb7195 thank you!
Why no knoch sir?
Great video
@@gilbertburgess3717 it’s a male. We only notch females.
Did you bake it a cake?
Crab cake LOLs
did it show you its ID to figure out how old it was?! lol 🤷♂️🤭😊👍
@@michaellaughlin8457 😁
2:28 WHAT YOU CALL A SCULKIN, WE IN THE N/E UK CALL THEM POLLYMOGS... EXCELLENT VIDEO, STAY SAFE
@@petergarbutt9521 we both give them ugly names! God bless!
how did he know that the guy know it was 100 YRS old
@@glenweithers5643 educated guess based on poundage.
kudos for Corea by the way I'm in Maryland
@@mervyncrowley4427 right next door! I have a lot of friends there.
How the hell is your sternman wearing a mesh baseball hat? Does he not feel the cold? Jimbo ain't spleany.
He’s working enough to overcome the cold! He’s got a lot of layers on. The funny thing is we’ve been out in 80° in August and he’s still wearing that oil coat. 🤣🤣🤣
We call them Pugeyes.
I love your soundtrack but it will get you a copyright strike. Great work with the lobsters, nice to see old grand dad live to continue the species.
@@spectrumboss6696 it’s not a soundtrack. It’s just the music in the background.
@billybobcarrierobin Good music is the soundtrack of life and I enjoyed it
Regulations on top of regulations plus rules and extra laws and procedures, all designed to push out the small operations. The large commercial operations have no trouble jumping through hoops, some of them even vote for it and encourage it. Small operations are pushed around and hassled. If they can price and fee and charge you out of the market, the big guys are happy when you finally give up.
@@eltomas3634 100% correct! Bingo!
my webber cove came from there
@@randalllilly6865 was it the one Joe Gerrish had?
Notched tail means throw back
@@lutomson3496 on females, yes.
Imagine this work in rough water and wind.....rough
@@nihooper535 it can get pretty hairy out there.
what no snack
I failed! 😁
You are different kind of tough. If you're saying it's not too bad -5 on the water you are
@@troybaldwin8918 to be fair, it was 3° that Thursday, and 10° on Friday. 😁
Living the life on the sea viewing gods world far as the eye can see.
@@Tradhunter amen!
Years ago they served the lobsters to the prisoners now there a feast for all
@@romeo82587 it’s crazy to think about! They used to pick them off the beach for fertilizer!
Nice! But the music was distracting.
@@Whocares......... sorry. That was the music from my fm radio we listen to on the boat…
Hey Billy Bob
@@dianalavertue5638 hello! 🫶
Did he say whale logs? WTF?
@@lucassmith9250 logs, as in logbooks. All the stupid “paperwork” filing we have to do daily now, that was never part of our life before.
@ How senseless… like requiring airline pilots to keep Eagle logs, or requiring midwest corn harvesters to keep deer logs. It is forced labor. Such unnecessary administrative distractions can quickly become safety hazards. Pure nonsense!
Wouldn’t it be nice? If only the people in that industry would make the policies for that industry instead of a bunch of bearcats that probably have never saw what a lobster boat looks like it’s just like the trucking industry we have people making policies in it that doesn’t even know what a class 8 vehicle looks like.
@@moose6144 exactly!
I don't mean to bash lobstermen, but we generally all know what it's like when various industries or agencies police themselves. Think about it. Ya, not good.
@ the Maine lobster industry is the most sustainable wild caught fishery in the world because we policed ourselves. All of the meaningful conservation laws in the industry came from the fishermen.
Dodged a bullet there, imagine living for a hundred years only to end up covered in a garlic and butter dressing...😆
@@craigbartlett6355 right! That wouldn’t be a good outcome for the ‘ol boy.
😅 0:56
lol , your wrong bud . 100 years old ? lol!
great job but he threw the crabs back :(
I hate throwing them back but we don’t have market for them right now.
U mean the trick u up game rules take your money new jersey is crooks also
As an ex-commercial fishermen that's no major accomplishment to catch a 100 year old lobster , especially with your regs. .
@@normsweeney3116 but it’s something cool that people who aren’t blessed to do my job like to see. It’s fun to share things with people that I’ve been used to after 43 years on the water…
So the lobster had an ID and that's how you knew to throw it back in the water???????😶🌫️🤔
@@ConfusedArchery-zk1vn we throw back all the oversized ones.
Regulations only keep getting stricter every year. This upcoming season they are cutting us back to only two closed area scallop trips per vessel! 🫨