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@ 06/10/09 – 11:29:17
It must be lobster season or something as there was a long row of lobster pots left out yesterday by a local fisherman:
There was nothing in any of them. The idea is that the lobster crawls in the top and then can't get out again. Very simple, yet effective design:
The rain is back again today. It was gorgeous yesterday when I took the picture above.
Cheers, Tom.
lilian1
SeasideMan
Pro Simple ideas are often the best.
malakeas
Pro The shades of blue scattered about in the picture is amazing! Hope you have a great day.
SeasideMan
Pro Thanks, I just walked the dog and got drenched - totally different today from yesterday!
brokendownangel
Pro Great photos, makes me want lobster for dinner - not much chance of that though - I am not going out again today until I have to get the blonde, the weather is awful!
SeasideMan
Pro I've never tried lobster and probably never will now, but it does seem to be very popular with seafood lovers.
Rosiebud
Who do you think got so hungry that when they saw a big ol clawed crustacean glaring at them with eyes on stalks thought..... YUMMY! Get in my belly!
You would actually need to be starving, it's the same with snails how could any one think yum when they see one?
Also the keeping lobsters alive until you need to kill them for the pot. (They used to boil them alive before someone proved it was agony for the poor lobsters (what a total shock! Being boiled alive hurts!)
Lovely pics though Tom, wish I could see the sea more often I miss it maddly.
XXX
SeasideMan
Pro They're just giant sea cockroaches really...
Rosiebud
well now you put it that way... appetising...
LOL! 
XXX
catsInVienna
lobster pots: I think it works since centuries. I would never eat a lobster (And I have not ever eaten one). That is Great Britain, rain and fog (But I did not saw much fog when I visited UK, I think it comes from Victorian century.
SeasideMan
Pro Yes, lobster pots are a very old invention. I suspect the design has been refined over many centuries into the current simple but effective version.
We are a less smoky country now than during Victorian times. We still get fog, but thankfully no smog.
catsInVienna
I think that lots of simple things are good. FOG: yes pls. take lots of pictures!! PLEASE! I like fog. In Austria there is also no smog. I visited Kuala Lumpur Malaysia and there were smog, awful!
SeasideMan
Pro The season for fog is just starting - we even have a little today. I'll certainly take some snaps for you :-)
catsInVienna
That is great! I wish (me) many, many days with fog!
sianpayne
Reminds me of when my daughter was around 5 or 6 and the teacher called me over at the end of the day chuckling her head off.
They`d been learning about healthy diets and stuff and the children were asked what types of fish they ate. My daughter stuck her hand up...waving madly and announced that she ate lobster for her dinner!!!!
I can only imagine that she had been watching spongebob squarepants, as a lobster has never ever set a claw in my kitchen!!!
Kids eh? 
SeasideMan
Pro Ah, that's funny :-)
Kids say the best things sometimes!
sianpayne
I dread to think of some of the tales she must have told her teachers 
lol
isadora101
How lovely, like Lilian said "It is nice to hear about your life besides the sea.
The lobster pots make an interesting subject for a photograph.
SeasideMan
Pro Hi Issy, I just wish I could have had a picture of a Lobster too!
jenray
Pro So you saw sun yesterday...
I presume they take the pots way out to sea normally...can't see lobsters crawling up the beach and climbing in... Have you seen the amazing scenes of lobsters on the move...thousands of them all in line marching across the sea bed like an underwater army dressed in full armour?... GBHs...XXX
SeasideMan
Pro Yes, it was a glorious day yesterday. I took the picture of the pots at low tide. They'd been out for a full 12 hours and mostly covered in water during that time.
Those films of lobsters walking in line are incredible!
PeregrinePickles
Lobster fishing is very popular where we have our caravan in Pembrokeshire. Recently, there have been lobster wars with local fisherman cutting the ropes attached to holidaymaker baskets!
SeasideMan
Pro Dear oh dear, that's not very good.
ohtralala
Lovely pix - I have never seen a lobster pot on the shoreline - the ones we see are buoyed in the ocean... an interesting variation. Actually I don't like lobster, had it at a party once - too strong for me.
SeasideMan
Pro An acquired taste, perhaps?
ohtralala
Definitely - but also an aversion to the practice of boiling a creature alive!!
xx
WildWitch
pretty scary looking creatures arnt they, but then again cant be more scary than a pot of boiling water to them.
Dont think i could eat one.
SeasideMan
Pro Me neither...
hobbyhorse
Fab pics again. Have to confess that I can eat lobster. But I've never cooked one. Is it in Annie Hall where they crawl all over the kitchen?
xx
SeasideMan
Pro Yes, it is Annie Hall - hilarious scene!
Tom, I come from the Atlantic coast on the east side of Canada. Our lobster pots mostly look like this, except they are made from wood. Some of the younger fishermen are making square wooden lobster pots simply because they are easier to stack is my best guess. Thanks for sharing!
SeasideMan
Pro That makes sense, to make the pots square for stacking.
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Clever idea these lobster pots lovely interesting pics too Tom I love hearing about your life by the sea