Fisherman nets 'monster' lobster

[Gavin Gait]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/essex/7039004.stm

[randcmackenzie]

Big, right enough, but it looks like a hen to me, and not the 'he' they are all talking about.

[Gavin Gait]

I'd say your right randcmackenzie. With these beasties the bigger they are its far far more likely for them to be female as the males are usually a lot smaller

[dom]

thought all lobsters were red

[Gavin Gait]

Only after being boiled Dom. The Lobsters we have in this part of the world are a dark blue colour until we chuck them in the pot lol

[ware ware everywhere]

First can I say I rekon its a cock Lobster (toe size) then can I stress how much it is not a monster.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y152/NorthmostArab/26072007094.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y152/NorthmostArab/thumper.jpg

:D

[treeve]

go gettem

[jonnie]

With a tail like that, its a hen.

How many fishermen in the NE would use the term 'Blooming Big'???

[sparkie2182]

if thats a hen.......

id love to see its eggs................:)

[trotterdotpom]

Was it caught off Buck, Buck, Buckie?

John T.

[jim andromeda]

Davie the biggest one caught at the rocks at Lossie with a cleek was caught by Pat Young many years ago it weighed in at 14lbs. and he had to boil it in the washing boiler out in the shed I can vouch for this as I seen with my own eyes. Apparently there was one landed by a Cormack a shoemaker by creel it was hanging on the outside and was reputed to weigh 16 lbs. The most lobsters caught at the rocks was 112 in a week by my brother Andrew (ex Ajax) when he was 14 he still goes down yet on the odd occasion