How We Lobster Fish in Maine

[@Bob-di8cz]

Hard rewarding work. Reading the Stern Men now.

[@JoeHollandFishing]

for sure

[@mainegirlrollitup]

I went Stern for a few years, It's hard on the back but I loved every minute of it.

[@staveman11]

I went to Maine 3 years ago on vacation. It was a dream trip. I can't wait to go back. We started at the south east corner and went up the coast to Bar Harbor. Wow, what a trip. Next time I want to see the timber country. I am in the timber business in Tennessee and I gotta see how they do it there. I ate at least 20 lobsters while I was there. I am impressed with the video Joe. Great Job Joe!!!

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Thank you! I hunt a lot in Timber country up north in Maine. Sadly the big timber days are gone up there but the logging operations are still impressive. Central Maine has a lot of big trees and the Arborists are very skilled taking them down in tough and tight situations.

[@karenkusnierz1346]

Hello from east boothbay! Saw the map on the screen. LOVE IT!

[@danacharette4565]

The video definitely had the documentary feel to it. I'm telling you.... that's your calling. Thanks for sharing, Joe!!

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Thank you Dana!

[@willford418]

If you get on the right boat with the right crew it's a great gig, pretty decent money too.

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Absolutely

[@JohnBaxter-kn5zf]

I told my now ex gf boy when he wanted to get into it I told him go stand at the dock look at the boats and find the best ones there and he asked why I told him those are Highliners those are the guys you want to fish with.. He started on a broke down boat w no money jumped ship after season jumped a highline and he said holy what a difference I said EXACTLY

[@keylargo2001]

Joe one of the things you forgot to mention. Was that the buoy lines have a device on them that separates in case a whale should become entangled. The device is called a break away and separates when there is more then 600 lbs. of pull. There's also a size limit for keepers. Which is between 3 3/8th inches to 5 inches. Five inches and above get thrown back in if in state waters.

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Thank you

[@jermo31]

Boys are some hard on the lobsters

[@MisfitsFiendClub138]

Yeah, not cool at all flinging the short ones back like he is trying to win a Frisbee tournament. They should be showing more respect for the lobsters, those undersized ones are their future profits

[@jamesmelanson7987]

No excuse for it.

[@rickojames]

Good video. I worked on a boat in Casco Bay a long time ago when the traps were wooden, and we were transitioning from wooden pegs to rubber bands. There nothing like swinging water logged and concrete weighted 4 footers all day long. Got to say....you guys handle the lobsters a lot rougher than we did. My captain would have keel hauled my ass if he saw me banging lobsters around like that.

[@jamesmelanson7987]

No excuse for rough handling the catch.

[@YourGreenLady]

when i saw my guy grab the bait fish.. then grab his cig. then keep smoking and working.. i knew he was for real

[@eighteennakedcowboys]

Same here haha. That's my kind of guy. We only hire guys like that

[@guillaumed2]

he killing them all when he trow them back!

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Idk about that

[@sandib4234]

COOL! I ORDER MAINE LOBSTER N SCALLOPS COUPLE TIMES A YEAR,SO GOOD!!

[@andrewlusby1959]

I sterned for 9 years out of south thomaston maine hard fucking work but had so much fun learned so much would go back in a second to do it

[@JoeHollandFishing]

It’s good honest work

[@wayneladd7509]

Joe you hit a home run. Nice job. Thanks

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Thank you Wayne!

[@Fishingchanneltv]

love this kind of videos, they are so rare, big like

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Awesome! Thank you

[@thomasayer7511]

Much respect to those men and women who do that job! Damn hard work! I don't mind paying for a lobster when I know what it took to get it to my plate 🍽️

[@JoeHollandFishing]

For sure

[@mitchmitchell3560]

Another great video Joe, and you couldn't have picked a better captain or a finer harbor to sail from, it's where I call home!

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Thank you, he’s the best.

[@mitchmitchell3560]

Yeppers, great guy! Let me know if you want to do some stiper fishing this summer, I'd be happy to host

[@davidreynolds1368]

fishe 15 years in the 70s and 80s... wanted to point out.. we had NO federal whale mandates in or offshore for running trawls to cut down on vertical lines. We ran them cuz they were sensible and efficient as long as your boat and rig were set up for it.

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Seems like anything the feds do isn’t smart

[@richgouette]

the outgoing line freaked me out a bit.. felt like he was a reeealy small step away from a deep, dark, cold bath! Superb video though!

[@rodneyharris7246]

Awesome video!!!! Very interesting to watch!!! We fish recreationally for Western Rock Lobster off the coast of Perth, Western Australia and love it!!!! You have an awesome channel we liked and subscribed and look forward to checking out more of your channel!! Take care and tight lines!!!

[@barbarazucchi8821]

Love this video even though I got seasick! How do those guys do that? Amazing!

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Thank you

[@bencluster627]

Awesome video joe. I like to watch deadly catch, just as good if not better. Love lobster, just had some last weekend!

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Awesome, thank you

[@BassGeek]

Awesome video Joe. I do love me some Lobster.

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Man it’s good stuff!

[@dullhammer]

Great video! Very complete coverage. Thanks. Question: When you drop the lobsters down that tube into what I presume is a tank of seawater, is that called the live-tank? Or just the tank? Or something else? And how many lobsters can it hold on your boat? Believe it or not I'm finding that information difficult to find on the web. Thanks again.

[@kwelyroos71]

called different things. my ex has a lobster box, this is more than liking a holding tank .. a live-well is a term more used with pond fisherman.

[@JoeHollandFishing]

That is correct

[@dullhammer]

@@kwelyroos71 Thank you.

[@paidinfull8818]

You never touch the line on an outgoing trawl. Stay away from the line is rule number one. Especially on that open stern. Recipe for disaster

[@matthewshoudy7887]

Might not be a good way out!!! 😂

[@DamianKenny8]

A pretty brutal death it would be, that was extremely dangerous

[@TheREALLibertyOrDeath]

Yeah, no reason to do that if you manage the rope correctly as you haul it

[@JohnBaxter-kn5zf]

Did it all my life commercial fishing.. I always said YOU GET SALT IN YOUR VEINS ITS VERY HARD TO GET OUT.. Nice looking ride by the way

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Good stuff

[@richshackelford5793]

Great video Joe. What time is supper.

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Thanks bud, Anytime is a good time for Lobster Dinner!

[@karateflix]

I’m so hungry right now I couldn’t help but think how much I’d love to eat all the lobsters thrown back into the water. 😂

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Soooo gooood.

[@jaidenshute]

I dont want to brag but I have my own lobster boat 200 traps a pot hauler and I'm only 12 and in 7th grade I wake up at 5 in the morning and go pull my traps bait them do everything my self but I need someone 18 or older to go with me becuase I'm still a kid

[@yitzyf9396]

Message me on ig @isaacfeigenbaum I’ve been fishing in Alaska and I need a deckhand in Maine when I come over and fish there in a few months

[@TSemasFl]

Pretty cool, looks like a interesting job. Does the State of Maine allow recreational traps for people with a small limit of traps? Or in order to catch lobsters, you have to be a commercial fisherman?

[@JoeHollandFishing]

I believe you can get a permit for ten or so traps but I’ll have to check into it. Thanks for tuning in,

[@kwelyroos71]

Just wanted to say I am using your video in an assignment for college, yours in the ONLY one I found without music playing. THE only person who is going to watch is my instructor. Used to be my ex husbands sternman.

[@JoeHollandFishing]

How’d you do?

[@demiansanmartin4516]

What are typically the busiest times of year for Maine lobstermen??

[@JoeHollandFishing]

The spring season and the fall season seem to be the best catches in this Downeast midcoast area. They come in closer in the spring and the catches are bigger out deeper in the fall before winter.

[@marcclement7396]

In case you were wondering why lobster is expensive. Great video guys.

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Very true!

[@timothydolen9653]

You need to come down and go crawfishin in Kentucky

[@JoeHollandFishing]

I'd love to! Is it similar just smaller scale?

[@timothydolen9653]

We use a square basket about the size of a 24pk of coke, bait it with chicken bones, and throw it in a deep hole and wade the shoals and shallow water flippin rocks over and gettin them that way to... fine eatin brother

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Sounds like a lot of fun!

[@rergang3]

I would love to do this as a side job! Much smaller operation though haha

[@JoeHollandFishing]

I believe there are still smaller resident licenses

[@rergang3]

I guess I'll see once I move up there and can figure out a boat situation

[@generalmalice7941]

How hard would it be to get a job on a lobster boat and what towns have a strong lobsterin comunity

[@JoeHollandFishing]

not hard try Friendship and down east from there.

[@totljag1]

What do they give the fisherman now days for lobster per pound ?

[@JoeHollandFishing]

It honestly changes daily.

[@joelcr250]

lol, he has to throw the shorts back to sea spinning at 300 rpm ???? lobsters be like "woaaaaaaaaaa !!!!!!!!"

[@MisfitsFiendClub138]

Thinking the same exact thing, he should show more respect for the resource

[@wolfofrhodeislandx7462]

Maine lobstermen like to do everything the hard way lol.but they're definitely some of the hardest working men on the water

[@JoeHollandFishing]

They are very hard workers.

[@wandalathinghouse5069]

What time of the year is best for lobster?!

[@JoeHollandFishing]

They fish them all year, as far as eating goes it’s good all the time too.

[@charleschiasson8091]

@@JoeHollandFishing can u fish for lobster all year long in Maine? I know in Canada it’s only for a couple months then it closes

[@williamferris9102]

Nice vid joe....now get back out on tour 😎

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Thanks bud.

[@BranMac97]

That guy is way to rough throwing the shorts back, no need to fling them in the air like that

[@MisfitsFiendClub138]

U R 100% right! Anytime I see someone harshly treating wildlife it speaks volumes about that person, definitely not in a good way

[@robertsherman2650]

why do you guys spin the pot around 180 on the rail ?

[@JoeHollandFishing]

They only spin the ones where the doors are facing wrong direction to open.

[@SongSparrow-wf2is]

lobster is so delicious.

[@JoeHollandFishing]

It really is!

[@NYNCMIKE]

Cool video

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Thank you

[@willusa2927]

I know he has a job to do but does he have to fling them lobsters overboard like that I don't think so he can just as easily as tossing back in

[@gulfrelay4047]

I do I get some of these

[@JoeHollandFishing]

nice

[@doverbound]

Overfilling dem’ bags. No bueno

[@JoeHollandFishing]

No good ?

[@doverbound]

@@JoeHollandFishing gotta have enough room in the bag for the bait to float around and break up, less constricted.

[@doverbound]

I’m on the stern of a boat down in Portsmouth. Been doing it for awhile. Idiot savant when it comes to my job. I work on a 46’ mussel ridge. I wasn’t judging, just my own opinion. I apologize if I offended. I love this shit.

[@Damon637lord]

How hard would it be for a high schooler to get a summer job doing this? I used to work on a cow farm and I know work on a Christmas tree farm. Sheering trees just sucks😂

[@Damon637lord]

And what’s average weekly pay?

[@johnnappa]

@@Damon637lord As a local in Maine, I have seen it is generally pretty easy to get a job lobstering. I can't say for sure, but high schoolers I knew who lobstered seemed to make pretty good money. Best of luck to you.

[@joshwelner1951]

Go walk the docks starting at 430am to 7am do that for a week and you'll probably have a job 👍hit up the local stores after 7

[@RuniDjurhuus]

Hi I really like this video, I can see it's licensed under Creative Commons, may I reupload it on my KZbin channel without ads, and I'll also make a link to the original video and your channel as well?

[@JoeHollandFishing]

No

[@jamesstader6650]

All of the shorts they are catching tells me the fishery is way in decline. Question: what's to keep the fish from nibbeling these lobsters and killing them before they get to the bottom?!?

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Good questions, the shorts signify the strength of the lobster population. It takes seven years for a lobster to reach keeper size, so the lobsterman is actually seeing his future in every trap and with every short lobster he throws back. If they were not catching high numbers of shorts then the industry and population would be in decline. I’d say there is nothing to keep fish from eating the lobsters on the way down. I’d think they are safest on the bottom. They dart down very quickly and there are not a lot of predator fish in Maine waters of the lobster,

[@jamesstader6650]

I have been diving for pacific coast Lobsters since I was 12 and I have to say they are bigger and less sweeter than east coast bugs.

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Cool, sounds like fun. I tried some from the Florida keys , Caribbean lobster with no claws. They were tasty .

[@MindKontrolleProject]

flippin' lobsta

[@JoeHollandFishing]

thank you!

[@kodiham7532]

You cut the video short I wanted to see the weight of that tote!

[@JoeHollandFishing]

92 pounds

[@idelinaechevarria5879]

I need main lobster phone number how to get it

[@matthewshoudy7887]

I’m a Maine lobster fisherman where are you located? I can help ya

[@rpaterson433]

He is giving the undersized lobsters a hard time when he's throwing them back.

[@JoeHollandFishing]

truth

[@rpaterson433]

@@JoeHollandFishing they will have a headache

[@DamianKenny8]

Awesome documentary, but you guys really gotta stay away from the shooting rope, if it snarls around your feet it won’t be good.

[@JoeHollandFishing]

so true thanks.

[@holyspirit448]

Find them bugs cap

[@holyspirit448]

Make 500k plus a YEAR where I fish

[@thetwelfth9987]

I love how lobsters spin when thrown like boomerands

[@johnh4863]

125,000,000 pounds of lobster a year. 6000 licensed lobstermen. I always wonder why and how lobster never get wiped out. They say only a few survive out of all the eggs a female lays. A few can be 10-20% I guess. Imagine how many would exist if they had a 75-80% survival rate.

[@JoeHollandFishing]

The slot limit dictates the population there are actually millions and millions of lobsters crawling around on the bottom of the ocean floor, and a great many of them get caught, but a huge percentage of those get released because they are not big enough and some are too big

[@juliemanarin4127]

​@JoeHollandFishing why are the big ones released???

[@literacylabyrinth4018]

Why did you get Kermit the Frog to narrate this documentary?

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Legendary

[@MisfitsFiendClub138]

That music hurts my ears

[@gzlpete]

Too many commercials guys. If you want more viewers like me who want to enjoy your content, and watch it thru. You need to reduce the ads. Otherwise your videos become nothing but click- bait.

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Bummer man, I’ll see if I can get KZbin to reduce them, thanks for the feedback.

[@fbomb336]

obvious someone doesn't know how to run the rail

[@JoeHollandFishing]

not good?

[@fbomb336]

@@JoeHollandFishing The 3rd man is killing himself getting the trap on the deck. Not taking advantage of the runners.

[@JoeHollandFishing]

@@fbomb336 ah thanks

[@jeremiah1528]

Ruined it with that music....

[@JoeHollandFishing]

thank you.

[@ManMountainMetals]

They use 80 million pounds of herring to catch 125 million pounds of lobster 🦞

[@JoeHollandFishing]

Yes, and also add to that Pogies, Alewives and various other baits.