Lobster Wars

Friday Oct 30th, we decided to go lobster fishing out of San Diego landing. San Diego is suppose to be the lobster central of California. All of us have paid our dues lobstering out of Huntington/Long Beach area without much luck. I've also heard Dana Point to be a good area, but my buddy that fished out of San Diego a few times already and limited out every single time. However, with the weather change and a bright moon, it could turn either way. I'm not a big fan of the landing at San Diego, because there isn't a dock you can just walk your boat in. Its also has a has very small area to maneuver, and if you don't know what your doing, theres an very good chance you WILL hit the jetty not too far behind you. Anyways, we packed the promar traps with bait and let them soak for about 30 minutes. First trap had nothing, but the 2nd trap jeff pull up 2 keepers. I was excited after that and pulled the 2nd string of traps. I ended up pulling the biggest lobster of the night weighing in at 6.5lbs! Very exciting stuff, but to make the long story short, the Navy ended up kicking us out of our spot and so we ended the night with only 11 lobster and one big spider crab. We tossed back about 8 huge snails, that i didnt know if we could keep or not and a bunch of spider crab which I didn't care for unless they were huge. So in the end we picked up about 30lbs of lobsters. Even though we didn't limit out, it was by far the the most fun and productive trip I've ever been on. The monster lobsters really made up for it. They are such beautiful creatures(and tasty too) lol. The scenery in San Diego is so nice, if I had more time I would've gone just to take pictures, and there was no way I'd bring my camera on board the boat. Salt water is not your friend when it comes to valuable electronics. I Hope you all get to experience the joy of catching your own lobsters someday! Very hard work, but well worth it! =)