When fishing from a pier, I usually drop my hoop net over the rail in the hopes of landing a legal hali. This time my son wanted to drop the hoop down, before doing so and unknown to me, he put a top smelt that he caught earlier into the bait holder. It got dark and we called it a night and started packing up. No legal hali this time. I was about to pull up the hoop when my son asked if he could. So I handed him the rope then resumed packing up some other things. He gets the hoop up and over the rail and lays it down. After I was done with the rest of the gear I was walked towards the hoop and nearly tripped over something. I bent down to get a closer look and found this!!
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I asked my son if he saw the lobster in the hoop when he pulled it up, he said no and if he knew it was in there he probably would have screamed. He had never seen one before. I thought how much luckier could we be to catch a lobster without any bait, that was before I found the smelt in the bait bag. :lol:
It was a great addition to our dinner!
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