Lobster tails for bait?? - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

FISHING_FOOL · 08-25-2010, 09:29 PM

The guys who win! I guess its the best bait.... Hard to believe. The only reason this came about was because I was hitting the surf this evening and realized many lobsters had washed up on the beach and died. I figure its worth a shot.

Swimmer · 08-26-2010, 01:58 PM

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The guys who win! I guess its the best bait.... Hard to believe. The only reason this came about was because I was hitting the surf this evening and realized many lobsters had washed up on the beach and died. I took the tails :-) I guess this happens once every 10 years or so in certain places and there are no laws governing picking up lobsters on the beach! I figure its worth a shot.

Your not suppose to pick those lobsters up off the beach without a license, same with the clams that wash up. uh oh!

I have been fishing the derby since 1973 more often than not, and every year except one since 1980 and have never heard of lobsters being used by a winner. We have a few winners here. Maybe they can chime in on this statement.

Fishoholic · 08-26-2010, 02:09 PM

I just spent about an hour and a half looking.. Nothing.. I'd be willing to bet you have to keep the receipts and they must be legal size.. Look on the bright side.. Probably won't have to worry about blues!

and on a side note... I DID find that the bastages did close the commercial spiny dogfish season

and the tog regs have changed.

http://www.dem.ri.gov/programs/bnatr...s/082010p7.pdf

Mike P · 08-27-2010, 01:28 PM

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Your not suppose to pick those lobsters up off the beach without a license, same with the clams that wash up. uh oh!

I have been fishing the derby since 1973 more often than not, and every year except one since 1980 and have never heard of lobsters being used by a winner. We have a few winners here. Maybe they can chime in on this statement.

Actually, you can't pick them off the beach at all, with or without a license--at least in Massachusetts. The only legal way of harvesting lobsters in Massachusetts is by potting, or by free diving. Free diving--more properly called free-handing--includes wading and harvesting them by hand--while they're in the water. You can't even legally keep one if you catch it on a hook and line. Pots have to include an escape vent.

And lobsters can't be harvested by any method at night.

Surf clams can be harvested without a license in certain towns--one would have to check the local shellfishing regs. No permit is needed to take a bushel of sea clams a day in Bourne, for example. All surf clams in Massachusetts have to have a minimum 5" shell length to be taken, even where no permit is needed. The state sets the individual species size limits for shellfish, and the towns regulate permitting and seasons.

MakoMike · 08-26-2010, 03:44 PM

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I guess this happens once every 10 years or so in certain places and there are no laws governing picking up lobsters on the beach!
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You guess wrong there are laws in every state governing picking up lobsters on the beach and I'll bet you broke a few. Good thing the clam cops weren't around.

Piscator · 08-26-2010, 04:12 PM

Geez, now fishing fool is a lobster poacher for picking one up off the beach. You're in trouble now breaking the law

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I was jigging for bait 2 weeks ago and caught one, had it in possesion for about 30 seconds but I let him go.......

Frankiesurf · 08-26-2010, 07:33 PM

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Geez, now fishing fool is a lobster poacher for picking one up off the beach. You're in trouble now breaking the law

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I was jigging for bait 2 weeks ago and caught one, had it in possesion for about 30 seconds but I let him go.......

Is that John from CHiPs? They have lobster in los Angeles?

FISHING_FOOL · 08-26-2010, 05:08 PM

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You guess wrong there are laws in every state governing picking up lobsters on the beach and I'll bet you broke a few. Good thing the clam cops weren't around.

Sure.... you post the law and I believe you. The last time they were up on the beach thick people were everywhere picking them up. My father in-law (retired police office, also the clam cop locally) was there picking them up and spoke with an EPO officer who was there watching and the EPO said there is nothing wrong with it..... Anyone who thinks its illegal should find the law!!

Swimmer · 08-26-2010, 05:55 PM

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Sure.... you post the law and I believe you. The last time they were up on the beach thick people were everywhere picking them up. My father in-law (retired police office, also the clam cop locally) was there picking them up and spoke with an EPO officer who was there watching and the EPO said there is nothing wrong with it..... Anyone who thinks its illegal should find the law!!

I know for a fact in Marshfield/Brant Rock in recent history after storms the law went down to the beach and if I remember correctly they even had a few troopers there because so many people drove to the beach to grab what they could, making people put everything back in the water. That included quahogs, steamers, lobsters and whatnot. I have a buddy who lives right there and saw it happen.

Nothing that happens in Hull would surprise me, nothing. It would not surpise that the Hull Warden wouldn't know or would not bother to enforce the regs.

What makes you thinks because you didn't have to swim for it, trap it, or dig for it that you don't need a permit. Oh the storm gave it to me I didn't have to go to the town hall to get a permit for these.

robc22 · 08-28-2010, 02:57 PM

I would like to know the MA reg. that prevents you from using legal/ legally caught lobsters for bait???? A CMR # would do.......

FISHING_FOOL · 08-28-2010, 07:51 PM

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I would like to know the MA reg. that prevents you from using legal/ legally caught lobsters for bait???? A CMR # would do.......

Thank you.

I have yet to be able to find a law that makes it not okay.

Nebe · 08-28-2010, 09:56 PM

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Thank you.

I have yet to be able to find a law that makes it not okay.

your not allowed to take lobsters with out a license, so unless you have a reciept from a fish market, your breaking the law- if you find and use a baby lobster, or a lobster with a notch cut out of his tail, your really breaking the law.. But if you have lobstering permit, then you can use one for bait as long as its legal size to keep