Crab Pots Hooked On The Rocks & Octopus Invading The Islands ?

[@mikejohnson4233]

Way to fangled the pots out of the rocks. Great vidio with the octopus. Hope you can catch more lobsters 🦞 and get some good fishing don next time it's safe for you two. Thanks again Mike

[@stevenr2463]

Octopus - one of the most amazing creatures!

[@davidcook380]

WOW Troy, Showing your skill around them rocks mate

[@trampster7306]

Great update thanys Guys. Bit tricky getting the pots out from so close to the rocks. Nice catch of Lobster, and good footage of Miss Octopus! Great to see her go back, and the Berried Lobster. Still on catch up! Stay safe & well! 🎣🎣👍👍

[@boatfishingscottyano]

Well done octopussy😂😂. Glad you got those pots out they looked well stuck

[@harryleadbetter-vj5ww]

Good day ❤

[@GerryDonnelly-qm2nr]

Fab video as usual and thank you

[@ThoseWhoBait]

I don't know if there is evidence for a link but the commercial boats in Cornwall have been hitting cuttlefish hard the last few years. I reckon that has reduced competition and the octopus are taking advantage and the population is growing.

[@Trojwaterman]

I think its warming seas or maybe a shift in the gulf stream. We used to have them here many years ago my grandmother pre war used to go down the beach looking for octopus. Its believed the cold winter of 63 pretty much wiped them out here.

[@MeteorMacX]

Looking good out there guys. Plenty of life in the water. Great views and great channel 👏. Meteorite mac channel Derbyshire 👍

[@cedhome7945]

Went to Malta on holiday and on a day trip we had a meal as part of the package. everyone happy eating the stew until someone asked what's this ? Octopus I said across the table EEEUGH the typical British reaction to something foreign 😀 ...but you were happy eating it a moment before you knew what it was ...... Muppets 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Trojwaterman]

Its like spider crabs they taste amazing but some people get freaked just by the name 😊

[@Itchybiscuit]

I got a flashback of Ken Dodd at the start of the video. 'Tattyfilarious!'.😉🤣

[@Trojwaterman]

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[@janhorton5197]

Troj, do you ever notch the eggers?

[@Trojwaterman]

We don't have V notching here. The size limit was increased some years ago and since then the lobster population has exploded.The decline in large predatory fish has probably also helped the lobster population increase.

[@ianhenderson713]

Ohhh...1st in the boat captain

[@johnboy79606]

Ha ha I do like you two lovers xx

[@patrickribellu6809]

Pourquoi remettre les poulpes à l eau en daube c super bon

[@Trojwaterman]

If we ever get a lot more we may take some one day but for now we put them back.

[@garywoliter6655]

Hi, now you’ve been using your pot hauler for a while could you do a review, your comments would be appreciated as will be looking to get one soon cheers

[@Trojwaterman]

Its been excellent. We have only ever pulled up to 2 pots on a string each pot weighs around 40lb dry without ropes. We pull pots up to 100ft of water. They are very good for space saving and it is easy to pull the rope from the winch if the pots get snagged. The one I have is rated up to 10mm rope but we have pulled 12mm rope no problem.

[@johnhay4228]

Hi Trojs I noticed that you don't knotch the lobsters tail if they are carrying berries to prove she's a breeding lobster is there any reason why you don't do it are the laws different

[@Trojwaterman]

We don't have V notching here. The size limit was increased some years ago and since then the lobster population has exploded.

[@johnhay4228]

Thanks for the reply Trojs stay safe you two

[@mikeystreets9333]

Would it not be better for someone to dive for them on a commercial venture , they can fetch good money at restaurants , or is it to deep and rough seas

[@Trojwaterman]

It is deep but in the future if we end up with many I am sure some divers will

[@Graham19951]

@@Trojwaterman One of the scallop divers stabbed a octo a few weeks ago. Nearly drowned him, tore the reg out his mouth and mask off. Powerfull creatures, some of the crabbers here have been getting five or ten a day mostly your end of the island. Cornwall way some of the crabbers have been catching a hundred kilo plus a day, getting good money for them but they are going to decimate the shellfish. When I started fishing, just after the 63 winter that killed all the octopus there was very few crab. During the next few years the crab numbers exploded. About five years ago, the crab seemed to decline very quickly. People will be screaming overfishing, but I think there was more to it than just that. They just seemed to almost disappear over night??. The appearance of small crayfish around the island will be easy prey for the octo's.

[@fllikoxer]

don't you v notch hens with eggs ?

[@Trojwaterman]

No we just have a size limit and the lobsters have been increasing year on year

[@digofthedump]

wonder what would happen if you had too throw all female crabs/lobster back .apart price going up ,would the population increase dramatically within say 3yrs .? a moratorium period every 10yrs

[@Trojwaterman]

Probably not as when crabs mate the female changes her shell the male then has to be big enough to carry her underneath and protect her. So if all the males are being targeted the females have no large males to mate with and protect them.