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Originally Posted by fishbones
You're lucky the owner of the trap didn't see you do that. Your body would have been dumped off some rocky shoreline.
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Originally Posted by Finaddict
Yeah ... keep away from those lobster traps, no matter how tempting and vacant a beach seems ... I once watched two guys in a 19 or 20 foot Mako patrolling the shoreline collecting traps that had washed up on the rocks ... some of them could have been theirs, but probably very few were, they had more than a dozen in their boat when the left the stretch of shoreline I was fishing ...
... but as far as catching lobsters on hook and line ... I found the CCC to be quite productive for lobsters while fishing eels ... took two nice keeper sized lobsters back to back while TDF was taking bass ... let them go since I do not have a license at this time to keep them ...
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In Massachusetts it's illegal to do either one of those things. First, you can't touch another person's trap--even if it washes up on your own property. You have to call the EPs so they can come and retrieve it. The trap is supposed to have the owner's permit number on it.
And even if you have a lobster license, the only legal method of taking them is by either trapping or potting, or by free diving. You can't keep one that you catch on a hook and line, and in addition, it's illegal to harvest lobsters by any method at night
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