Sometime this fall Ill ask the sporting goods guys if they have a clue who their supplier was, couple of them have been there 20-30 years so you never know.

Whatever happened to Charles Laquedera, or whatever his name was, the morning guy on BCN who was always getting in the chit with the FCC?

Laquedera moved to another radio station when Corolyn Fox came over from HJY. Not to be confused with the afternnon guy.. what was his name.. Mark Pimento? I think he got busted for kiddy porn or somethin'.

A while back Charley Soares was giving a presentation at MSBA where he was going on about how since he finds so many lobsters in bass that he would try to make a lure like one. He had it there and I think it was made out of some kind of red/brown felt.

To his surprise, the only thing he said he ever caught with it was a cod.

Mike

How about some rubber lobsters. They are 3 1/2 ozs and approx. 8 1/2" long

those look good....u ever use em dave?

"saw one eat a rocking chair once."

April 1st one year way back when , BCN put Stern on mornings and Charles went to ZLX with his crew. A couple years ago he retired and went to Hawaii where his ex lived with his kids. he's an old fart now

Lobsters make good bait

Not yet, forgot I had them amidst all the other stuff in the garage.

I think some of you might be referring to the old PETRI Flounder and Lobster lures. Every once in a while a shop will have one on a shelf. I am pretty sure that they were made somewhere on the Cape and the few I mknew that actually learned how to fish them swore by them. Not sure if they are still made.

PETRI is the one and they still make them the problem is finding a hook that goes with them. I've been cursing the ones i have-the small fluke version- because i cannot find a way to rig the rubber body functionaly. Kept it around as a novelty for some reason.

I have one of those petri-fish, a flounder lure. I am embarresed to say I have never fished it. I keep it around as a "conversation piece" I think I got it from the surfcaster a long time ago. I have a spare rubber body too. I didn't know they made a lobster look-a-like.

FYI, I found that petri fish...anyone wanna trade for a petri lobster?

I have two of the flounders.I wasn't sure if that's what you were talking about until you posted the pics.

Rob, lure was called the Clobster, salesman remembers the distributor but doesnt think hes seen it in the catalog in recent years but hes going to check when he gets a chance since the store was busy when I flew thru on sat, also says it appeared hand packaged as in a small/garage operation. May well be the same lure mentioned above by Petri.

I caught a Cod last year that had 10 of that very same size Lobster!

But years ago thats all they used for bait!! Lobster tails were the thing to use, ask anyone that use to fish all the old fish stands!

vermonter, the discripsion of the package fits to a T.
it has been a decade since i held it in my hand. what did he discribe the lure to look like? im surprized he would remeber it

Rob.......had to go back and find this....went back to Sams(the army navy you mentioned) and reminded the sales guy I was the one who has stopped in before, interested in the clobster they used to sell....after a minute he then came out of the back room with one they had on the shelf collecting dust. Its approixmately 4 ounces, length is roughly 6 1/2 inches when fished since the tail curls around the help hide the lead weight and hook( plus im guessing the tail would give some nice lifelike movement when the lure was raised off the bottom on a slow retrieve). The overall color is a really dark green with some orange highlights along the edges of the main claws and straight orange only for the legs. Pics are so so since I took them at night and the camera is an early digital I use for onsite carpentry/woodworking projects.
The maker of the lure was Petri as others mentioned, tho instead of the Cape Cod address the label states NY.

Is that an item you would like to trade? I have a couple things you might like...how about a habs 1 foot needle or some other custom plug? PM if interested. I would love to see it.

Here are a couple pics after resizing

i think the maker was Steve Petri,he lives on LI , it might have been his father,i know he makes or made custom rods also

Sand, havent got a clue at the moment about trading it, I was suprised enough to be handed one the other day since I went in hoping to get some mailing info at best. I can see where it would catch some fish around rocky structure. I know from reading old fishing diaries while living on the Vineyard that lobster tails were the go-to bait years ago, we've all seen lobsters in stomachs of stripers.

yeah FishVt.......left the damn label on the truck dash but pretty sure it was "Copiague, NY"......it definately was Petri as others had guessed a while back.

Is there an address on the bag that you can contact? It might be worth asking him if he would be interested in producing a bunch for us? Should you ever want to trade it let me know. (I would seek to have something like it cloned or made in a similar fashion)

An older guy i run into fishing once and a blue moon knew or knows petri, the younger one, the one who nailed a 69 and 3/4....cant even imagine a bass that big!!!
If i run into him netime soon i will relay this thread to him, see what i can come up with.:chatter
That clobster is awesome, i would love a few of those. On the north fork of LI there are alot more lobsters than people think, esp in bass stomaches...

Yeah I looked at it with the same thought in mind Sand, making a plaster cast for pouring that is. Done some plaster casts for renovating, tho I've never worked in soft rubber. Theres no street address, all it says is Copiague, NY. I'll try a google search with the idea of tracking it down, would hate to copy something that someone else is still making.
As for trading, tell you what, if I ever do decide to trade it, you'd be second in line after Rob. Id feel honor bound to offer it in trade to him first since he started this whole investigation by mentioning where he bought it, without that we wouldnt even have these pics to look at. Thats if mind you.

Taped on rubber arms wit a big fender washer??/

If you ever get in contact with the fellow, I would be interested in a couple dozen to try. With regards to my trade offer, no problem. I think I could make that pretty easy but I would like to see it first hand if I could. If not, no big deal.

I had a fish wit 2 large lobster in its belly on 1lb an another 1.5 lbs.they where hard an in good shape.they looked cooked also.i guess the stomach acids do that.someone said i should fish the tails.but i didn't.I ate them. ;-)

I've caught bass wit some pretty big mantis shrimp in there.Only once have i got one wit an eel an it had 2 eels in there.U ever see em wit the flounder stacked up like pancakes.I have 2 sizes of the petri flounder.they are some LI dudes.like someone said father an son.